Introducing Adobe Media Encoder CS4
By: Rafiq Elmansy on Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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Rafiq Elmansy has been a multimedia graphic designer, graphic and web designer since 1999. His background is in fine art and sculpture. He uses Adobe Products to create graphics and animations for desktop applications, cartoons, games, web sites, e-learning courses, and mobile and Pocket PC applications. He is the founder of Bee Design Studio. He is an Adobe Flash CS3 Certified, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Certified, and the founder of the first Adobe User Group in Egypt. Rafiq also creates computer artwork and writes articles and reviews about graphics, animation, and Flash topics at his site, Graphic Mania. Rafiq is an Adobe Community Expert, contributor writer at Adobe Design and Developer center and uCertify.com co-author.
Like Adobe Bridge CS4, Adobe Creative Suite 4 comes with another helpful application that allows you to bridge the gap between applications by encoding media to different formats.
In older versions of Adobe Media Encoder (Adobe Flash Video Encoder), it was only possible to encode media to the FLV format. But the new version has been enhanced with more encoding formats to provide various compressions to audio and video such as:
- Adobe FLV and F4V, to be used with Adobe Flash Player
- H.264, to be used with devices such as iPod, mobile phones ...etc.
- MPEG-1 for CDs
- MPEG-2 for DVD and high quality video
- Apple Quick Time
- Windows Media
The new version of Adobe Media Encoder is an extension for the previous version in Adobe Creative Suite 3. The new version has extended capabilities, starting with accepting more formats, different exported formats and accepting other types of content, such as Adobe After Effects Compositions and Adobe Premier Pro sequences.
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