Adobe Media Encoder CC for MacOS Overview

This powerful media management tool Adobe Media Encoder for macOS, allows you to work with media in a unified way across applications. Tight integration with Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, and other applications provides a seamless workflow.

With the support of H.264 resolution and H.264 GPU acceleration for H.265 / HEVC, the October thirteen core version of Media Encoder adds color monitor profiles, support for several camera formats (such as Sony Venice v2 and ARRI Alexa LF) working with the Google VR180, digital photos from Windows iOS/macOS in HEIF / HEIC format, and enhanced hardware acceleration for encoding and media playback.

Features of Adobe Media Encoder CC for MacOS

Support for 8K H.264 export

Improved RED camera format decoding

Support for importing Canon C200 camera formats

RED camera Image Processing Pipeline [IPP2] support

Channel selection when publishing to YouTube and Vimeo

Page selection when publishing to Facebook

Add custom video thumbnails when publishing to YouTube

Animated GIF export on macOS and Windows

Time Tuner effect improvements

Warning when importing non-native QuickTime sources

Destination Publishing to Adobe Stock Contributor

Support for Color Profiles from After Effects sources

Automatically relinked assets when importing a sequence

Option to maintain playback in Premiere Pro while rendering in Media Encoder

Export support for ambisonic audio (H.264 only)

Support for Hybrid LOG Gamma (HLG)

System Requirements and Technical Details

64-bit CPU

MacOS 12.0 or later

Apple M1 chip

8 GB of RAM (16 GB recommended)

4 GB of available hard disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended)

Optional: Adobe-recommended GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance