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

Use multiple output files

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

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Use multiple output files

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- One powerful feature of Media Encoder is the ability to encode multiple files simultaneously with different settings. That's a big time saver; let me show you how it works. We're here in Media Encoder, and I already have a file in my queue. You can see that it's called ProRes H2 15 seconds, and that just designates that it's a ProRes file and therefore high quality. You would wanna do this starting with a high-quality master that we've already talked about. So automatically, this came in with a single setting. In my case, it's H.264 at Match Source, high bit rate, and that is a very good setting that you might wanna use. But let's think about the scenario where you have multiple outputs and things going to different places. You may want to encode this once at this quality and then again for YouTube, or for a DVD, for different purposes, maybe even apply timecode overlay or a size change to some of them. So if we want to add more settings to this file, we want to select the file, and then you can see that this button right here lets us add additional outputs to that source. So we click it once and we have, by default, the same one we already had, but now we can start adjusting. So let's say we also wanna put out an MPEG-2 for DVD. Not that many people share DVDs anymore, but you never know. So now we've got a second setting, and we can continue to add them. Maybe we want, also in our H.264, but one of the smaller YouTube or Vimeo settings, maybe a small Vimeo setting to preserve the space we have on our Vimeo site, so we're gonna do a Vimeo Standard Definition export. And you can see we start to get accumulation of these different settings, all under the same file. So when we start this queue, you can see that all of the settings start to go simultaneously, and there's actually a bit of a speed advantage doing it this way. This is going to go more quickly than doing this each individually. So that's how we're able to export multiple files with different settings from the same source file in Media Encoder. That's a definite time savings in that we can set these and then forget about them and let the machine work, and the machine actually works slightly faster this way than encoding consecutive files.

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