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Using Media Encoder

Using Media Encoder - After Effects Tutorial

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Using Media Encoder

- [Instructor] Media Encoder is a companion application to after effects that allows us to hand off renders to it so that we're free to continue working in after effects. Media Encoder also offers us file formats that aren't available to us in the after effects render queue. So in this example we want to send this to the client for preview and I want to send off web friendly videos so that they can preview this on the plane that they're on and we can do that through Adobe Media Encoder. So to do that let's go ahead and select our Paper Airplane in the project window and go File, Export, Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue. Media Encoder is going to launch in the background and when it does after effects's composition is going to show up in the queue. So once it's launched, you'll see that in the queue we have the composition from after effects and we have a Preset here. On the left-hand side the preset browser shows up and…

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