Media Encoder CC

What do you like best?

Most of the render settings in Media Encoder also exist on Premiere. What I like about Media Encoder is that you can queue up many instances of your final video with different settings for different platforms, and have them all render in the background while you still use Premiere. Also, I recently started watermarking my videos until the client pays, and you can add these overlays and streamline them into your render process very quickly for future projects.

What do you dislike?

I dislike that it's yet another program that has to be opened and it just seems superfluous that the extra features can't be implemented into Premiere or After Effects.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Media Encoder allows me to experiment freely with render settings until I finally get the optimal version for where it's getting published. Changing bit rates and resolutions or file sizes can be done easily and then you can queue all these up and render all at the same time. Premiere is only one at a time.