Media encoder shines most when used with other Adobe apps to queue video exports, but my favorite part is that you can drag videos right in and convert them however you need. It's extremely convenient and has always been a solid, stable tool for my workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some video formats/codecs that media encoder won't take, which requires me to convert it through VLC, which is also a handy tool but nowhere near as intuitive as Media Encoder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really appreciate the fact that I can send all my After Effects and Premiere projects to the Media Encoder and batch render them all from one software. It saves so much time in the exporting process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is not user friendly, as is the case with a lot of Adobe software. It could be cleaned up and simplified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about media encoder is how easily it is integrated into other Adobe products. Being able to export through ME directly from AE or PP is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Finding just the right settings can be tricky. There are many presets to choose from... maybe too many... trying to find the perfect mix of small file size and great quality can be time consuming, but once you have it, you just crank out the videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the integration with other Adobe apps. For example, if I need a certain video filetype that After Effects or Premiere cannot export, I can still export the project from those software via Media Encoder. This saves me exporting, and then converting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are still some file formats that it cannot handle. For exampkle, I was recently downsaving an MKV file, and I had to use handbrake to do that. It would be great if Media Encoder could replace the need for all other encoder programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the ease of use and the strong interaction with all the other Adobe software that indirectly concerns it (After Effects, Premiere...). They work perfectly together. The interface is very intuitive and well designed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the program will crash if there are too many videos exporting at the same time (or they are very large files). However, it almost never happens, fortunately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the fact that it is tightly integrated with the Adobe suite of products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not as specialized as one of the competing products like Apple's compressor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a great tool to have. With it, you can render or convert -from and to- almost any kind of video/audio. And also it allows me to keep working with After Effects, while Media Encoder is doing the rendering of the videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the fact that you have no control over the audio levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adobe Media Encoder allows for efficient and seamless encoding of various video formats with customizable presets, saving time and ensuring high-quality output. Its integration with other Adobe Creative Cloud applications also makes it a convenient tool for video professionals like me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Media Encoder can be resource-intensive and may experience performance issues when handling large or complex projects. Additionally, the learning curve can be steep for beginners, with a variety of advanced features and settings that may be overwhelming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Independent queue from Premiere or After Effects. Easy for beginners with low expectations, but powerful for the expert. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fine tuning can be tricky. Trial and error can be time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The preset options for the most common use cases make Media Encode overall quite useful. The ability to set custom profiles is also very useful when you need to render many projects to the same specification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When you launch it to render it takes ages to load, you then have to wait a lot more for the encoding job to load into the app. This is on a Macbook Pro M1 Max, so not a slow machine. Media Encoder often fails to connect to the dynamic link server where it gets the metadata for the presets. You click the encoding options and it gets stuck in infinite loading. Why does it have to contact the server on every launch? If it can't contact the server, why can't it let me use the existing settings? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.