Producing Great Video with the Adobe Media Encoder

Quickly and Easily Compress and Optimize Video

In this in-depth workshop, compression and encoding master Jan Ozer demystifies the art of producing compressed video with the powerful Adobe Media Encoder. Jan starts by providing a workflow overview and teaching you the key encoding concepts all video producers need to know to compress their video properly. Then he shows you how to work with a wide variety of formats: H.264 for Flash, Silverlight, HTML5, and QuickTime; VP6 and Windows Media; MPEG-2 for DVD; and MPEG-2/H.264 for Blu-ray. The tutorial finishes off by looking at adaptive streaming, a technology that improves the quality of service you can deliver to viewers at every point on the power/bandwidth spectrum. Both Apple´s HTTP Live Streaming and Adobe´s Dynamic Streaming are covered.

Trainer: Jan Ozer

Publication date: Jul 1, 2011

$34.99

Duration: 3 hrs 15 min

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Welcome to Producing Great Video with the Adobe Media Encoder

In this workshop you’ll learn how to optimally produce compressed video with the Adobe Media Encoder. After providing an overview of the workflow, the tutorials will cover encoding-related concepts, producing video in a wide variety of formats, and advanced topics like adaptive streaming. The contents of this course include:

Introduction to the Adobe Media Encoder
This chapter introduces you to the Adobe Media Encoder and details the Premiere Pro to AME handoff.

Introduction to Streaming
It’s tough to compress your videos effectively if you don’t know the concepts behind compression and streaming, or if you don’t have a firm grasp of how to configure your videos. This chapter introduces you to streaming-related concepts like bandwidth, resolution, data rate, bitrate control, and so on.

Producing H.264 for Flash, Silverlight, HTML5, and QuickTime
H.264 is the codec you’ll probably use for Flash encoding, as well as for Apple iDevices, Silverlight, and HTML5. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to encode H.264 video for all those targets.

Using Other Codecs
In this chapter, you’ll learn to encode video to the VP6 and WMV formats.

Producing for Optical Disc
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to produce video for DVD and Blu-ray discs. We’ll look at the technical requirements for each and how they apply to the Adobe Media Encoder.

Adaptive Streaming
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Producing Great Video with Adobe Media Encoder

Christopher Mardorf

For the uninitiated, Jan Ozer´s "Producing Great Video with Adobe Media Encoder" is a must. Jan Ozer is a video compression expert who walks you through the minefield of codecs, containers, wrappers and compression settings that are part and parcel of the well-regarded Adobe Media Encoder. If you use Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe After Effects, it is likely that you will use Adobe Media Encoder. I found this series of videos very helpful and very informative (even though it is visually dry with no explosions and no car chases). The important point is that there is a real need for this kind of training. There is nothing like this on lynda.com. Thank you Jan. Thank you video2brain.

Christopher Mardorf
Adobe Certified Expert: Photoshop CS5