Adobe Media Encoder, as a stand alone program

[Joseph W. bourke]

Hi Arash –

Here’s the word from Adobe:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WSF5D5D2E0-C96D-4565-AE9A-A68CB39F0D98.html

As far as installing ONLY the Media Encoder, I would think that you could put your install disc for whatever CS4 (you don’t say which versions of Adobe products you have) product you own, then just choose to install the media encoder. The site noted above calls it a “standalone media encoder”, but it also has hooks into Premiere, AE, etc.. It should work.

Joe Bourke
Creative Director / Multimedia Specialist
B&S Exhibits and Multimedia
bs-exhibits.com

[Joe Smoe]

Well what I’m saying is that the this is for the Editor to export FLV, and he doesn’t own any Adobe products. He just wants Adobe Media encoder.

I have adobe media encoder because I have cs5.

[Alan Lloyd]

Adobe does make a standalone Flash encoder.

[Bret Williams]

Export QT h.264 .mov file. Change .mov to .flv. Done. No encoder neccessary.

[Bret Williams]

As I read it, this thread has absolutely nothing to do with After Effects and exporting from After Effectss. He said his buddy has to export from FCP as H.264 but sometimes needs flv instead. Assuming they’re happy with their h.264 exports from FCP (whether it be compressor or QT conversion I don’t know – either works beautifully) then I was suggesting they simply change the .mov to .flv. That works wonderfully. In other words, if he’s looking to install Adobe Media Encoder on his friends system just to gain flv output capabilities then there’s no point. Just change the extension.

[Brian Keith]

Brett,

If you are encoding as an h.264 you are creating an .f4v. Now, if you use AME, you can encode using the Sorenson Spark – On2 VP6 Codec for .flv’s.

To the original poster…If you are wanting to encode .flv’s…try a program called DV Kitchen. That should take care of your needs.

[Bret Williams]

I’ve never made an f4v with the above technique. Just flv. Never a problem. Flash supported h264 before f4v I believe.

[Tim Boknecht]

Ah, but it would be extremely helpful if Adobe sold Media Encoder as a standalone program. For instance, master control operations in small to medium stations often need to flip problematic electronic media files to the proper format or running time for their station. Say a spot comes in from another station in town that for whatever reason can’t seem to make a :30 that’s not longer than :30, plus the format is all jacked up. Instead of having someone in the creative services department run the spot through media encoder, the master control guys could have their own standalone license and do it themselves.

Makes sense, no? So why hasn’t Adobe done it? Probably the same reason they update flash player every 3 seconds but still haven’t developed a true 3D modeling program; they’re not as forward-sighted as they should be.

Tim Boknecht
Media Producer
Bravo Productions

[Tim Boknecht]

Well, Maxon is clearly not the player Adobe is when it comes to all forms of media production. They don’t have the market share. Adobe’s acquisitions of other companies (and therefor software) demonstrates their vision is to be a major player in practically all forms of media production and consumption.

Given that, it only makes sense that they also develop a 3D modeling program – especially since ALL the major players in that arena were bought up by Autodesk. Now if you want to enter that game you have to pay a minimum $3500 ticket price. Adobe could develop a program and bundle it for a smaller price and destroy Autodesk in market share in short order.

They already bifurcated Media Encoder with the release of CS4. Why not just sell it independently as well and pad the bottomline?

Tim Boknecht
Media Producer
Bravo Productions