Preparing your media for encoding

The information in this section guides you through setting the options that affect the quality and efficiency of your encoding. Note that some of the options mentioned in these topics may not be available in all three projects. If that is the case, the exceptions will be mentioned in the pertinent topic.

In this section

This section includes the following topics:

• Create presets

• Apply presets

• Set Output formats

• Set Video options

• Set H.264 options

• Set Audio options

• Set Pre-Processing options

• Set VC-1 options

• Set Silverlight template options

• Compare encoding methods (A/B Compare)

• Using Intelligent Encoding

• Generate thumbnails

• Create log files

• Save job files

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