How to Make Adobe Media Encoder Compress Videos

This post from MiniTool Video Converter will show you how to compress video size in Adobe Media Encoder and give you an alternative way to shrink video size.

Many people are wondering if they can compress videos in Adobe Media Encoder. The answer is positive. It’s hard to view or work with a large video file, and to resolve this problem, you can compress it with little quality loss. In this post, you’ll learn how to make Adobe Media Encoder compress video.

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Adobe Media Encoder is a video/audio/animation processing program that supports a variety of media formats like MP4, AVI, MP3, WAV, GIF, TIFF, and more. In addition to working as a standalone app, it’s more often used with Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other Adobe applications. For example, it can make Premiere Pro render faster.

How to Compress Video Size in Adobe Media Encoder

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to compress videos with Adobe Media Encoder.

Step 1. Launch Media Encoder on your computer, click File at the upper left corner, and choose Add Source to open the video you’d like to compress. You can also directly send a large video file from Premiere Pro or After Effects to Media Encoder to compress it.

Step 2. Adobe Media Encoder provides various presets including options for YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Vimeo with different resolutions. You can choose a preset according to your needs by clicking Preset Name > Web Video Preset.

Also, you can select the most popular video format H.264 (MP4). In the dropdown list of H.264, you’ll see options with different resolutions and frame rate. Generally speaking, lowering these two parameters will make the video file size smaller.

For instance, if you want to compress 4K video, select 1080p, and if you compress 1080P video, choose 720p.

Step 3. Once you click a preset, the Export Settings window opens, and you can see the estimated file size at the bottom right corner. In this window, you can also change the bitrate to reduce the file size, and click OK to save your settings.

Step 4. Click the green arrow in the upper right corner to start the compression process.

An Alternative Way to Reduce Video File Size

Adobe Media Encoder makes it easy to compress video file size, but it’s not free to use. If you need a free alternative to Media Encoder for some video conversion and compression tasks, MiniTool Video Converter is a good option.

MiniTool Video Converter supports a wide variety of video formats and it offers a list of output formats with different resolutions. More importantly, it lets you create custom formats by setting the video resolution, frame rate, bitrate, encoder, etc.

Here’s how to compress video with MiniTool Video Converter.

Step 1. Download and install MiniTool Video Converter on your computer.

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Step 2. Open MiniTool Video Converter and click Add Files or click on the Add or Drag files here to start conversion area to upload your video.

Step 3. Click the diagonal arrow circled in the below screenshot, then go to the Video tab, click MP4, and select the preset with a lower resolution.

Step 4. Now, you can compare the size of your source and target videos. If you’re not satisfied, repeat the previous step and select another preset or create a custom format.

Step 5. Once you’re happy with the result, click the Convert button to start encoding the video. Once done, go to the Converted tab, and click Show in folder to locate the converted video file.

Conclusion

Large video files can be difficult to use or view on some devices. For example, each video-sharing site or other platform has different file size requirements for uploading videos. If a video exceeds the size limit, it can’t be shared or sent.

To fix this, you need to reduce the file size. This post will tell you how to compress video size in Adobe Media Encoder and MiniTool Video Converter, and choose the way that suits you.

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