Adobe Media Encoder Reviews & Product Details

The exporting options and features it brings to After Effects that it lacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really.. it works well. Pretty much essential if you render videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Most of the render settings in Media Encoder also exist on Premiere. What I like about Media Encoder is that you can queue up many instances of your final video with different settings for different platforms, and have them all render in the background while you still use Premiere. Also, I recently started watermarking my videos until the client pays, and you can add these overlays and streamline them into your render process very quickly for future projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that it's yet another program that has to be opened and it just seems superfluous that the extra features can't be implemented into Premiere or After Effects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the granular control of the encoder allowing you to export video files with or without audio. It's also nice to be able to quickly generate proxy files for having a proxy workflow in Premiere. There are plenty of presets to get you started and there's also limitless options to create your own presets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some might say it's overly complex but that's not an actual negative in my book. The complexity comes with versatility which is great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First off, this is just a different version of Media Encoder CC, and much is the same both good and bad, first off, the speed of which you can render products is insanely quick, this is amazing for quick exports of multiple clips that are to be sent off to wherever in one go, the UI is also very clean and displays all the info you could ever want, such as formats, timecodes, small display window showing the current frame rendering, and all this is adjustable, you can scale, move, add and finally remove windows that you deem more useful or worthless this is all great stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main problem with encoder is its main hook, rendering, if your doing a very basic render with little effects and next to no post production elements applied then this software might be alright, but if your wanting your final cut or basic cut with grades rendered out quick then you best just render it out your main editing software such as premire, yes it takes longer, but encoder is buggy to all ends, note some of these dont come up as errors within the software, some of the experiences ive had, edits rendering without grades and applied precomps from after effects links, renders having random black frames placed into the cut, footage just missing point blank missing, multiple crashes with very blank error logs as to why. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the fact that you can choose precisely every single setting of your composition, in order to improve the bitrate and the quality of the video itself. It has made me improve my encoding by a lot! (decreasing sizes to a 66%) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that you can't actually see the difference of what a rendered element is without an actual rendering (looks like it doesn't calculate properly the difference between them, since the option is there) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The dynamic link server lets you queue exports to be rendered from multiple projects or different sequences and compositions, but you can also just throw in a video and encode it into a different format or compress it however you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes a while to start up, and whenever I send items to the queue from a different software it usually doesn't show up immediately and I have no way of knowing if it's working in the background until it magically appears. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The key feature of Media Encoder is the possibility to batch a lot of render process, schedule it or playing in background without interrupting your workflow on other Creative Cloud Software. Another great feature is the possibility to chose ad hoc export preset or use the most popular on social network or broadcasters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes Dynamic Link with other software breaks and you need to restart software or even the machine to fix it. Unfortunately, this could be very boring because it requires a workflow interruption. In addition, Media Encoder doesn't delete temporary project files used for rendering the files, so you need to find and delete them manually after every render. Some problems with network renders if you work in a multi-OS environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love being able to batch export videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dislike how I cant select one "Style" of export and apply to all. It makes it a "new export" in addition to what I already have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are so many audio and video options to chose from your are bound to find the format you need to export in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes Encoder will take awhile to start the encoding process for no reason and it will occasionally crash and you will have to start the encode over again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Media encoders cue building feature. The multitasking ability is incredible. I can edit for a few hours. Cue out multiple iterations and sit back and catch up on emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The frequent bugs and crashes. The latest version has been the most failure prone. Had 10+ videos crash out and fail in the last week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.