Adobe Media Encoder CC Alternatives and Similar Software

HandBrake

HandBrake is an open-source, multithreaded video transcoder- it converts digital media from one format to another, compressing the files in the process. Handbrake can rip encrypted DVDs with libdvdcss (libdvdcss is installed with VLC media player on Mac OS X, or AnyDVD/DVD 43 on Windows). Handbrake supports: -Any Blu-ray or DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD, and some .VOB, .m2ts, and .TS files.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Xfce

Avidemux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting.

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FFmpeg

FFmpeg is an open source project that develops libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. FFmpeg is the home to libavcodec, a codec library used by a large spectrum of programs, and libavformat, a mux and demux library for containers.

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Format Factory

Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter and DVD ripper. It will convert (and compress): -Any video file or DVD to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF. -Any audio file or CD to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV. -Any image file to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA. MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format. Source files support RMVB.

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Free Windows

Freemake Video Converter

Freemake Video Converter is video converter that lets convert videos to avi, wmv, mp4 (iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, xBox), 3gp, rip dvd, extract mp3, burn DVD and Bluray, create photo slideshow and audio visualization, cut, join, rotate and upload videos, photos and music to YouTube. Freemake is the only free video converter that rips online videos via URL copypaste from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and 50+ sites. Download YouTube to iTunes. Convert YouTube to MP3, MP4, AVI, etc.

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Freemium Windows

VidCoder

VidCoder is a DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application for Windows. It uses HandBrake as its encoding engine.

Free Open Source Windows Windows S

XMedia Recode

XMedia Recode can convert nearly all popular audio and video formats including 3GP, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AAC, AC3, AMR, ASF, AVI, AVISynth, DVD, FLAC, FLV, H.261, H.263, H.264, M4A , M1V, M2V, M4V, Matroska (MKV), MMF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, TS, TRP, MP2, MP3, MP4, MP4V, MOV, OGG, PSP, (S) VCD, SWF , VOB, WAV, WMA and WMV. XMedia Recode can only convert unprotected DVDs.

Free Windows

MediaCoder

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder is available in various editions: Audio Edition, Device Editions (for iDevice, PSP, MP3/MP4 Players and 3GP mobile phones), Full Edition, NT CUDA Edition and CLI Version.

Freemium Windows

Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate

Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate is an all-in-one DVD & Video converter tool and DVD burner for assisting you to convert videos/audios among formats like AVI, WMV, MP4, MKV, FLV, 3GP, MPG etc. even convert video to 3D, burn video files to DVD disc, DVD folder, or ISO files, download or record videos from YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Myspace, CNN and other video-sharing sites, rip DVD movies to any video, for playback on devices.

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Online video converter

Video conversion tool to convert a video link or file to various formats.

Free Web

Any Video Converter

AnvSoft Any Video Converter is the most renowned video converter for converting video files between various formats, with fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It can clip any segments and optionally merge and sort them to make a creative movie. And even more, Any Video Converter can crop frame size to remove any unwanted area in the frame just like a pair of smart scissors. Additionally, it gives you the ability to burn videos to DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW disc.

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Freemium Mac Windows

SUPER ©

SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. A GUI to FFmpeg, MEncoder, MPlayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file,without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need. It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.

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Free Windows

Xilisoft Video Converter

Xilisoft Video Converter is easy, fast, reliable, and loaded with features. Its capable of converting videos of all popular formats like AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP, and audio MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG. Now you can convert video, audio, and animated images to play on your PSP, PS3, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Xbox, Google phones, iPad and other digital multimedia devices. All made possible with Xilisoft Video Converter.

Commercial Mac Windows

Internet Friendly Media Encoder

Convert all your video to the latest and next generation video codec. The H.265 standard, able to produce same quality while reduce bandwidth up to 50%, which mean capable shrink half of original file size! Using IFME allow to encode your media file into H.265 standard by using Open Source x265, with simple and friendly interface (GUI). Also capable to encode and compress much more your lossless audio by using OpenCL acceleration. Features: - 64bit native encoder. - Queue encoding.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

FF Multi Converter

FF Multi Converter is a simple graphical application which enables you to convert audio, video, image and document files between all popular formats, using and combining other programs. It uses ffmpeg for audio/video files, unoconv for document files and PythonMagick library for image file conversions. The goal of FF Multi Converter is to gather all multimedia types in one application and provide conversions for them easily through a user-friendly interface.

Free Open Source Linux

Mobile Media Converter

The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter for converting between popular desktop media formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv), QuickTime Video (mov) and commonly used mobile devices/phones formats like AMR audio (amr) and 3GP video. iPod/iPhone and PSP compatible MP4 video are supported. Moreover, you can remove and add new formats or devices through the internet.

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Cyberlink PowerDirector

PowerDirector is an video authoring and editing applications for the home/casual user. Now has a powerful Android app that uses the very same engine as the desktop version. It has a robust feature set including timeline, many transistion/text effects, PiP, and much more. PowerDirector also has an active community of content contributers which release new effects on a regular basis.

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MEncoder

MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a sibling of MPlayer , and can convert all the formats that MPlayer understands into a variety of compressed and uncompressed formats using different codecs. MEncoder is included in the MPlayer distribution. MEncoder is also supported on BSD and Haiku/BeOS platforms.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... MPlayer

123apps

A set of small web applications. Each of them performs a complex task for the user in three easy steps. An example of such a problem can be the audio file trimming, merging multiple audio files into one file or it conversion to a different format - one application per task. Using 123apps you can do all the necessary things right in your web browser without downloading special software for each task and installing them on your computer.

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Microsoft Expression Encoder

Expression Encoder imports and encodes video files, produces live webcasts, enhances media with watermarks and advertising, and publishes with Silverlight.

• Discontinued Expression Encoder 4 Pro is no longer available for sale. The free version of Expression Encoder will continue to be available for download, but it will be no longer developed.

Free Windows

Free Audio Video Pack

Free Audio Video Pack is a collection of portable video and audio converters which helps you to convert between all most popular audio and video formats like AVI, MPG, MP4, MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, MOV, WebM, WMV, WMA, OGG, WebM, FLV, OGV, 3GP. The package also includes applications that allows you to extract audio tracks from CD images based on the CUE sheets. All converters have a very similar interface and they are simple to use, even for novice users.

Free Windows

Total Video Tools

Free Download: http://www.macvideotool.com/download/total-video-tools-for-mac.dmg 1 Lossless Screen/Voice Recorder • Support long recording of screen and camera and output lossless videos. • Support audio inputs by microphone and record your voice with the screen synchronized. • Usage scenario: web-based instructional videos recording, software tutorial videos recording, game videos recording, game commentary videos recording, favorite online video clips recording...

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Hybrid

Hybrid is a multi platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) Qt based frontend for a bunch of other tools which can convert nearly every input to x264/Xvid/VP8 + ac3/ogg/mp3/aac/flac inside an mp4/m2ts/mkv/webm/mov/avi container, a Blu-ray or an AVCHD structure.

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ffmpegX

ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including FFmpeg, the "hyper fast video and audio encoder".

• Discontinued Most recent update was in 2011.

Free Mac

iFFmpeg

iFFmpeg is a graphical front-end for FFmpeg, a command-line tool used to convert multimedia files between formats. The command line instructions can be very hard to master/understand, so iFFmpeg does all the hard work for you. This allows you to use FFmpeg without detailed command-line knowledge.

Commercial Mac