Uscreen vs Media Encoder: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: My name is Jeremy. I am the owner and founder of Basecamp Learning Media. We're a small company that is designed to help live streamers and YouTubers use tools like Ecamm to bring their content to the web, and I would rate Uscreen a four star. Before Uscreen, we looked at a number of other platforms for delivering our content. We looked at Kajabi, we even looked at Squarespace, and we decided that for our needs that they were not going to work out. When we selected Uscreen, and why we selected going with Uscreen, was largely due to the fact that it had all the tools that we needed. But probably more than anything else, the sense of community that Uscreen has built has been instrumental in helping us get up-to-speed very, very quickly and in order of magnitude faster than I ever thought possible. When we decided to go with Uscreen, we immediately just launched into uploading content to the platform. It was super easy to do. It gave us all the tools that we needed and it helped guide us in a way that would deliver the content most effectively to our customers. For anybody that's looking to get into Uscreen as a platform, my only advice would be to just know your market. Know what your customers are expecting, and make sure that a product like Uscreen can satisfy those needs. For us, it did. And not only did it satisfy the needs that we had at the time, it's continued to grow with us as we've grown.

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.