Media Encoder CC. Your go-to application for all media processing.

Ingest, transcode, create proxies, and output any format you can imagine. This powerful media management tool allows you to work with media in a unified way across applications. Tight integration with Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, and other applications provides a seamless workflow.  
Adobe Media Encoder CC

Features

April 2018

  • Hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding on Windows 10 with 6th Generation (or later) Intel® Core™ processors and Intel Graphics enabled
  • Hardware-accelerated H.264 and HEVC encoding on Mac OS 10.13 systems with supported hardware
  • Support for importing Canon C200 camera formats
  • Support for importing Sony Venice camera formats
  • RED camera Image Processing Pipeline [IPP2] support
  • Destination Publishing support for new Twitter 280-character limit
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October 2017

  • Channel selection when publishing to YouTube and Vimeo
  • Playlist selection when publishing to YouTube
  • Page selection when publishing to Facebook
  • Add custom titles when publishing to YouTube, Facebook, or Vimeo
  • Add custom video thumbnails when publishing to YouTube
  • Notification for missing items in queue before encoding
  • H.264 adaptive bitrate presets automatically choose best output bitrate based on source frame size and frame rate
  • Animated GIF export on macOS and Windows
  • Time Tuner effect improvements
  • Newly optimized list of H.264 presets
  • Format support for RF64 WAV Decode/Encode, decode for Sony X-OCN, and QuickTime DNx Smart Rendering
  • Warning when importing non-native QuickTime sources
  • Timecode modification for 720p 59.94 media

April 2017

  • Destination Publishing to Adobe Stock Contributor
  • Adobe Team Projects support
  • Support for Color Profiles from After Effects sources
  • Automatically relinked assets when importing a sequence
  • Option to maintain playback in Premiere Pro while rendering in Media Encoder
  • Streamlined bit depth and alpha channel settings (QuickTime only)
  • Export support for ambisonic audio (H.264 only)
  • Support for Hybrid LOG Gamma (HLG)
  • Support for HDR in HEVC (H.265) export
  • Export support for Panasonic AVC-Long GOP Op1b

2016

  • Ingest and transcoding functionality
  • Media Browser panel
  • Destination Publishing to Twitter
  • Support for Adobe Audition CC
  • Support for Adobe Character Animator CC
  • Quality and performance improvements
  • Destination Publishing to Behance
  • Multiple clip stitching on ingest

 

2015

  • Destination Publishing to Facebook
  • Expanded 4K format support
  • Improved image sequence workflows
  • Automatic loudness correction
  • Usability refinements
  • MXF channelization
  • Extended DNxHD support
  • IRT compliance
  • HDR to SDR conversion filter
  • Time Interpolation setting

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