Sorenson Squeeze Vs Adobe Media Encoder Wmv
Oct 19, 2015 Video Compression Secrets: Smaller Files, Better Quality UPDATED! But what do we know about compressing video except to use the Adobe Media Encoder or a standalone program like Sorenson Squeeze (or DivX, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) and several other video compressors? But what do we know about compressing video except to use the Adobe Media.
When I read about the new and improved standalone Media Encoder that comes with Premiere CS4, I was very excited. Gone are the days of exporting files one at a time from Premiere, a potential savings of hundreds of hours per year. If this works, it would be like Space Mountain - worth the price of admission.
Can you tell I grew up in the 70's when Space Mountain was the best ride Disney had on offer?For those of you unfamiliar with the pre-CS versions of Premiere, let's take a look back. In Premiere 6.5 and earlier, you were limited to one timeline per project. This is the main reason why we did not use Premiere very much, even though we had it on a G3 going back to about 1999. Come to think of it, we had like Premiere 3 on a Power Mac Quadra 650 around 1997, and we were offered, get this, an SGI Indy2 running Premiere around the same time.
Imagine cutting video on a UNIX computer! What's next, a portable telephone you can fit in your pocket?! Crazy talk.So in the early versions of Premiere, you could export the video flavors of the day, Sorenson 3, RealVideo, maybe WMV or MPEG1. However you were still limited to One Timeline - One Export. Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.No worries, we used a media batch encoder the name of which escapes me. It was full featured, but ridiculously slow.
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At the time, late 90's, we were encoding Sorenson 3 Quicktimes for our CD-ROM library and selected websites. Sorenson 3 on a G3 400mhz computer was like watching paint dry.
Actually the paint may have been a bit faster, given prevailing conditions of relative humidity. So we purchased a PCI card called the 'Magic Encodomatic' or something very different than that. This was a card with 6 Pentium processors, cost about as much as a Geo Metro two-door hatchback with power windows and the sports package, and accelerated Sorenson only rendering by about 600%.
This saved us hundreds of hours of time.Fast forward to Premiere 6.5. The timeline limitation and media encoder remained about the same. However you could now do Batch Encoding. You could, in fact, do most of what the new CS4 Media Encoder can do, video format options aside. In other words, you could batch encode both files and Premiere projects. Since 1 Premiere Project = 1 premiere Timeline in version 6.5, you could edit your project, save, close, repeat, then load each project for encoding and walk away. The formats available for batch encoding were limited to everything but MPEG1 and 2, which were components of the included Main Concept MPEG encoder.
Separate but Equal - somebody call the Post! However a poorly promoted download from Main Concept allowed access to the MPEG encoder from the batch encoder. This download was well hidden on the internets, so I used to keep a CD prominently displayed on my desk for any future re-installs of Premiere.Enter Premiere Pro 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and CS3. Batch Media Encoder - gone.
So we purchased Sorenson Squeeze, a reasonable substitute, but alas a 2nd program to run, and pretty slow for most formats. The improvements in Premiere from multiple sequences to pretty much every other feature were worth the trade. I guess the Media Encoder became a free agent and nobody drafted him. Presumably he went back to the minors and played shortstop for the Pittsfield Mets until he was called back up to the big leagues.So finally, the good folks at Adobe must have found a dusty old copy of Premiere 6.5 in a supply room, read the manual, and realized the error of their ways. Premiere CS4, as has been discussed at length elsewhere on this website, is a big improvement in so many ways. The Media Encoder (AME) works as advertised.However, unless you have perhaps a quad core system, running AME and Premiere at the same time may be an issue - it is for me. With AME only running, and encoding, the system performance goes up to 100% - presumably it is using all cores with no interference.
With multiple apps running, you can get a bottleneck. I recently learned, on the Premiere forum, that you can right click on a process in the Windows Task Manager, and set the affinity of an app, telling it which CPU to use.
Depending upon what you are doing in Premiere, this either helps, or it doesn't. The best use of AME is to ronco it.I will not go into the various formats AME will encode - pretty much all of them, as would be expected in this day and age. The only bad thing I have observed so far is that Still images, exported through Premiere, now have to go through AME. This is a chore.
What used to take one keystroke, now takes half a dozen keystrokes, mouse clicks and waiting for AME to start, render and finish, and to add insult to injury, Premiere does not import the still into your project. Print Screen, paste into Photoshop, crop and save is faster and with HDV, the quality is great. To save you the nausea, I will leave it up to you to click this link for a screen-grab-in-lieu-of-AME-still-encoding sample.As you can see, this batch I set off before I left work and it was done a short time later.Thanks for reading. Happy New Year.Mike Cohen. I have a passion for my job, which entails training for medical professionals such as surgeons, nurses and administrators, not to mention various industries.Technology is great, but how you apply your skills is what pays the bills.Years ago I canceled my Media 100 support contract upon discovering what a treasure trove of helpful advice can be found on the Creative COW website. I am proud to be a part of this fantastic community. In my blog I talk a little about media production, a lot about travel and workflow, and occasionally about cooking, nature and my four-legged friends.Follow me on Twitter: mededmikeI'm also on LinkedIn if you can't get enough of me!
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— Reddit's own special effects subreddit.— A more generalize filmmaking subreddit.Crime? - Reddit Bureau of Investigation (best place to get a crime solved)Great post on. Does anyone have experience with the files output by Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)? It can only save as either.flv or.mp4 format and neither of which plays well with Adobe Premiere.
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I'm able to play them with no problem and even upload to YouTube, but I would really like to be able to edit them.I've attempted to convert both the.flv and.mp4 files to another format using VLC Media Player and MPEG Streamclip to no avail.Does anybody know a workaround? A better conversion tool? Something?If it helps, here are the codec details of an mp4 file created by OBS:Type: AudioCodec: MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)Sample rate: 48000 HzType: VideoCodec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)Frame Rate: 60. You know what being a subscriber here for 4+ years has taught me? It is that all problems can be solved with ffmpeg.It is the grandaddy of media tools. Pretty much everything that exists in the free/open source video processing world is a descendant of it. VLC uses ffmpeg, so does Handbrake and the huuuuuge number of programs people write that wrap it.The command line is scary, but you'll be able to convert any media file to any other media file if you know how to use it.Also, I just realized I didn't explain any actual solution to your problem.
To explain what ffmpeg actually is:Video and audio are represented on computers in formats in a wide variety of formats. These internal formats are called 'codecs'.To interact with a video, you need some way to decode it's internal format. This means that the tool ( tool A) you want to use on the video must support the codec in question, or you must use some means to convert the video into a codec that tool A is compatible with.Lucky for you, Adobe Premier supports a ton of different codecs However, there are boat-loads more codecs than this in the world. The problem becomes: What's the best tool for converting videos from one format into another?There is only one acceptable answer to that question: FFMPEG.FFMPEG is a 14 year old tool that supports hundreds of codecs. You can convert from anything to anything, and it's amazing. You can take a video, any video, and have ffmpeg decompile it down into individual frames (a super helpful ability). You can convert from WEBM to MP4, from MP4 to GIF, from AVI to whatever, whatever to whatever.
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To make that video, I literally type in the following command: ffmpeg -i Adventure.Time.S06E11.Little.Brother.HDTV.x264-W4F.mp4 -ss 00:06:48.3 -t 2 -c:v libvpx -b:v 5M -crf 4 thatscold.webmAnd tah-da, I have the video I want.Wow, I typed a huge wall of text here. Anyway, ffmpeg is the bees knees, and everyone on this subreddit could benefit from using it. It's scary, but ooooooh so powerful. Give it a try, if you dare.
The.mp4 files that OBS is creating may be using a codec not recognized by streamclip. That would explain why it can decode audio, but not video.On a scale of 1 to 10, AME and SS are a solid 0 on the free scale. They are both professional encoders.Four options:. Buy one of them. Use the trial version of the software until your 30 days are up. Use the trial version of the software until your 30 days are up, then reinstall your OS and install the trial all over again. Torrent cracked versions of either.It also just occurred to me that Apple's Compressor is an option.
I thought the interface was a real pain IMO, but it would sometimes solve problems that the others couldn't. That was in 2012 anyways.