Vimeo vs Media Encoder: Which is a better fit?

Jonathan T.: I'm Jonathan. I'm a founder at an E-learning company. This is my review for Vimeo. I give it four stars. Prior to Vimeo, I was using, I think, probably mostly YouTube to host my videos. Well, it's free. It's fast. It works pretty well. There are all, of course, ads and related videos, which aren't the case on Vimeo. I chose to switch my video over to Vimeo. It has a cleaner interface for the end user, has incredible controls for limiting downloads, and, in our particular use case, there is a really great way to have a page element display when the player got to a certain percentage. That was important for us on a sales page. So, for those reasons, we moved to Vimeo. It was pretty dang easy to move over to Vimeo. It's a very straight-up interface. You add your video over, give it a name, set some parameters, colors of a player, where it can be embedded, things like that. So, it was overall a very easy process. If you're looking at considering Vimeo, man, these days, there are so many options on the market, I'd look at a few different options for you. Try to forecast the use that you're going to have there, whether total number of videos, total hours or bandwidth, or views, whatever it might be, however the pricing is set up, and try to gauge your future use and cost and then see which features are going to give you what you need, especially those high-priority features that you're going to need as part of your stack.

Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Handel. I'm a videographer. And I give Adobe Encoder a four out of five. For more reviews, like this click below. So we had Final Cut Compressor before we used Media Encoder and both have their trade offs. But we ultimately ended up switching to Adobe Media Encoder. So we switched to Adobe Media Encoder because of really the dynamic link. It can link with all the other Adobe Suite products. It links with Premier, After Effects, InDesign. It really helps you render out the files in a robust software. Final Cut Compressor was all right. It did cover a variety of formats. But actually, Media Encoder covers more formats than Compressor does. Media Encoder was intermediary difficulty. I mean, we came from Compressor, which really simplified the UI. But Media Encoder does take some getting used to. You have to navigate the top bar menu and look for presets to implement. And you have to search for specific renders that you want to use. So it is quite difficult to use, but a couple YouTube tutorials should help you out. So before switching to Adobe Media Encoder, I do recommend that you use the other Creative Cloud applications like Premier Pro, After Effects. And then you can actually integrate with Media Encoder. It's not really a great standalone software, although it can work like that. And Compressor works better on Apple, and Media Encoder is going to work better on Windows operating systems. So I recommend you use Windows as well.