The x264 Video Encoder Gets Plugged into Adobe Creative Suites

[rallymax]

3am Digital Studios today unveiled x264 PRO and x264 PROBD H.264/AVC video encoder plug-ins for the Adobe Creative Suites 5 and 6. “The x264 PRO and x264 PROBD plug-ins are highly optimized to deliver the best possible video output leveraging the very popular “x264” video encode engine” said Edward Richards, CEO of 3am Digital Studios. “The x264 video encoder was chosen because it has won the MSU MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison award every year since 2006*.”

The x264 PRO plug-in is a general purpose AVC encoder capable of output from very small to 4K Digital Cinema resolutions. The complementary x264 PROBD plug-in provides a sub-set of configuration options that are defined in the Blu-ray Disc specifications to ensure the resulting video output can pass Blu-ray compliance testing.

“Video Professionals demand the best quality encode regardless of final delivery medium, from Internet Streaming to Blu-ray Disc and next generation 4K Digital Cinema. The x264 PRO plug-in for the Adobe Creative Suite delivers that need reliably, quickly and affordably” continued Richards “The x264 encoding engine is popular with highly technical video professionals but requires complex, intermediate steps to use with Adobe’s Video Editing tool ‘Premiere Pro’. Our plug-ins remove that complexity by tightly integrating it with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder using their familiar menus.”

For more information on the capabilities of x264 PRO and x264 PROBD visit http://www.x264pro.com.

* MSU Video Codec Comparison:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264#Capabilities

[aedipuss]

some sort of spam??? or outright theft? x264 is an open source codec.

[Selur]

open source doesn't mean anything in this context, depending on what you do with it, you still need a license, see: http://x264licensing.com/

So basically this is just a news entry that informs you that there's now a x264 plugin for Adobe Creative Suite.

Cu Selur

[Cornucopia]

Plus, the encoder is still open source, but the plugin-in linkage to CS and the gui can be closed/proprietary (and $$). That's their perogative; happens all the time. Ours is whether to choose to use it or not.

Probably worth it for production houses that want the quality but aren't very adept at frameserving or CLI tools. At $299 intro/$599 normal price, it's a little steep for lone producers or hobbyists.

Scott

[aedipuss]

ok so it's the open source frameserver authors that should be checking the code to make sure it's not based on theirs.

i don't get the price as the current cs mainconcept 264 encoder is not that bad.