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

Use Media Encoder as a standalone application

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

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Use Media Encoder as a standalone application

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- Adobe Media Encoder is a powerful part of Creative Cloud because of the way it connects to all the other pieces of software. But it is a standalone program itself, and that's another powerful way to access the program. So let's take a look at using Media Encoder as a standalone application. You can see that I'm here in my Applications folder, and I'm just gonna double-click on the icon for Media Encoder to open up the program. You can see that we open up and we have an empty queue. Nothing ready to encode, so the next step is simply to manually add files for our encoding. And there's a lot of choices on how we can do that. We can go through the Media Browser, we can actually drag and drop directly to the queue, or we can use the menus. And I'll go ahead and use the menu to Add Source. So here I'm gonna navigate to our desktop, go into our Exercise Files and the Media folder, and I can choose one or, if I hold down Shift, more of these files to import into the queue. So I just use Shift to select three, and then I'm gonna Open. In this case, what Open means is add to the queue. So now you see I have three separate jobs here in my queue, and I can continue to manipulate these. I can go into Export Settings. I can change format. I can even add additional settings to each file. Now, we'll look at all of these permutations in detail, but this is how we operate directly in the interface. So if this queue is ready to go, we would just push the green Play button, and we would start our encode. As you can see, accessing Adobe Media Encoder as a standalone application is a very powerful way to get into all of its features.

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