Create a watch folder, Remove a watched folder from the encoding queue, Cue points for flv and f4v video files – Adobe Media Encoder CS4 User Manual

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USING ADOBE MEDIA ENCODER CS4

Encoding media

Last updated 4/29/2012

Create a watch folder

You can configure Adobe Media Encoder to look for video or audio files in certain folders called watched folders.
When Adobe Media Encoder finds a video or audio file located in a watched folder, it encodes the file using the
encoding settings assigned to the folder, and then exports the encoded file to an Output folder created inside the
watched folder.

Select File > Create Watch Folder.

Select the target folder. You can select a watched folder at any level of a hard drive.

Click OK. The folder you select becomes a watched folder, and is added to the top of the encoding queue.

Click the Format menu and select a format with which to encode the video or audio clips in the watched folder.

Click the Preset menu, and select an encoding preset suitable for your intended application. All video or audio clips
in the watched folder are exported using the preset you select.

Click Start Queue to begin encoding your files. Adobe Media Encoder populates the list of files to encode with all
of the audio and video files found in the watched folder.

Adobe Media Encoder automatically creates an Output folder in the watched folder into which it exports the
encoded files.

Remove a watched folder from the encoding queue

You can remove any watched folder from the encoding queue when its contents are not being encoded.

Select the folder (or folders) that you want to remove from the source file list.

Click Remove.

A dialog box prompts you to confirm that you want the selected folders removed from the encoding queue.

Cue points for FLV and F4V video files

Cue points cause the playback of video to start other actions within the presentation and let you synchronize the video
with animation, text, graphics, and other interactive content. For example, you can create a Flash presentation that has
video playing in one area of the screen while text and graphics appear in another area.

Each cue point consists of a name, the time at which it occurs in the video, type of cue point, and optional parameters.
You specify cue point times using the format hour:minute:second:millisecond. When the encoded video file is played
back within a Flash SWF file, and the video plays or seeks to the elapsed time specified by the cue point, the action
you’ve specified is triggered.

Adobe Media Encoder lets you embed cue points in video clips using the Export Settings dialog box. You can assign
each cue point an event type and parameter that can be used with ActionScript™ or the Flash FLVPlayback component
to programmatically cause the video playback to start other actions in the presentation.

Note: In addition to embedding cue points within the encoded FLV video clip, you can create cue points using the
FLVPlayback component. Using this component, you can create a cue point that is not embedded in the video clip itself,
providing greater flexibility in triggering events. For more information, see the information on the FLVPlayback
component in the ActionScript 2.0 Components Language Reference or the ActionScript 3.0 Components Language
Reference.

Note that cue point metadata is stored differently in F4V and FLV file types. Refer to “Using cue points and metadata”
in Programming ActionScript 3.0 for information on the differences between cue points in F4V and FLV files, and how
to use them in Flash.