Understanding Presets and Profiles
ProCoder 3 includes over a hundred presets to simplify choosing transcoding settings for your job. There will be times, however, where you will be making changes to the supplied presets for a particular requirement. If you need to reapply the same settings in the future, you can save your own preset. ProCoder 3 also includes the concept of a profile. Unlike a preset, a profile can include multiple target outputs. For example, you could save a profile called “Web Outputs” that creates 5 separate output files in different web formats. This profile could then be applied to any source file(s) in the future.
To summarize:
- A preset saves the settings for a single codec or filter. Use it to reapply a particular set of parameters for future projects. As an example, you could have a preset called “Windows Media for Streaming” which saves the Windows Media parameters used for streaming output at your company. The Apply Preset and Save Preset buttons are available in the Advanced section for a particular codec or filter.
- A profile saves the settings for all the targets and filters in a particular project. For example, you could save a profile called “Web Outputs” that creates 5 separate output files in different web formats. This profile could include the “Windows Media for Streaming” preset described above. The Save Profile button is on the main target tab.
NOTE: a preset will not include the target file name and target folder. This is on purpose: a target preset is considered a group of encoding parameters, not file system locations. A profile will save the target file name and target folder.