Introduction to the interface

The Media Encoder interface is deceptively simple when you open it (see Figure 15-1). It looks a lot like the Flash CS3 Video Encoder—but there's plenty more under the hood.

Figure 15-1. The Queue window of the Adobe Media Encoder

The top half is the queue—it's a list of all the media you have waiting to be encoded. It shows you the source file path, the video format you've chosen to encode to, the preset (or custom settings) being used, the output file path, and the status of that file.

To the right of the queue are the five following buttons, which manage the items in the queue and whether the queue is running or not:

• Add
• Duplicate
• Remove
• Pause
• Start Queue

We'll use these buttons later in this chapter.