Manage file encoding, Save the encoding queue, Remove files from the encoding queue – Adobe Media Encoder CS4 User Manual
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USING ADOBE MEDIA ENCODER CS4
Encoding media
Last updated 4/29/2012
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To delete all custom presets, Ctrl+Alt-click (Windows) or Command+Option-click (Mac
OS) the Delete Preset
button.
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Click
Yes to confirm the deletion.
Manage file encoding
Save the encoding queue
You can manually save the current encoding queue—including all encoding settings. If you do not choose to save the
encoding queue, it is saved automatically when you exit Adobe Media Encoder.
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Select File > Save Queue.
Remove files from the encoding queue
You can remove any video from the encoding queue before it is encoded.
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Select the video (or videos) that you want to remove from the source file list.
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Click Remove.
A dialog box prompts you to confirm that you want the selected files removed from the encoding queue.
Skip a file
You can specify that Adobe Media Encoder not encode a file in the current encoding queue.
Skip a file
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Select the file or files that you want to skip in the encoding queue. To select multiple files in the encoding queue,
Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh).
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Select Edit > Skip Selection.
Reset a skipped file for encoding
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Select the file or files in the encoding queue that you want to reset to the Waiting to Encode state. To select multiple
files in the encoding queue, Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh).
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Select Edit > Reset Status.
The selected file or files are reset to the Waiting to Encode state. You can reset the status of files while
Adobe Media Encoder is encoding.
Stop encoding the current file
You can stop the encoding process for any file that is currently being encoded. If you don’t want to encode a file that
is waiting to be encoded, you can either remove that file from the encoding queue, or specify that the file be skipped.
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Select File > Stop Current File.
A dialog box prompts you to confirm that you want to stop the current file from encoding. Click OK to stop the
encoding process. An error message that states “The operation was interrupted by the user” is written to the log file.
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