From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Outputs and Media Encoder

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Choosing a format

Choosing a format

From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Outputs and Media Encoder

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Choosing a format

- I wanna take a moment to talk about what Adobe Media Encoder terms format. And this is very similar to what you might see as file type when you're saving out of other programs and some people refer to this as a wrapper. That is, the container that the video goes in. It's a little more complicated than that because of the way that Media Encoder organizes these choices. So, I wanna show you. We're here in Media Encoder and this list exists right here on this dropdown, but I'm actually going to click through to the actual exports setting so we can get a clearer look at it. So here we are in export settings, and there's that format word. And here is the same list of your options for format. So, again, this is the type of file that is being created. We have lots of choices here, including animated GIF, audio-only formats like Wave Form. We have Wraptor DCP down at the bottom. Some still image formats like TIFF and Targa, so there's a lot of choices here. Many of these choices will result…

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