Configure video encoding options

 On the Video side of the Encoding Options tabbed panel, configure any of the following encoding settings:
Video
When deselected, the encoding session does not include video.

Device
Specifies the video capture device to use. The menu lists any video devices that are attached to the system and that are compatible with Microsoft® DirectShow®. Click the settings icon  next to a selected device to configure its settings. For a list of compatible capture devices, see www.adobe.com/go/FMLE_DeviceMatrix.

Format
Specifies the video codec to use: On2 VP6 or H.264.

The following video/audio combinations are supported:

Codec

Nellymoser

MP3

AAC*

HE-AAC*

H.264

  

X

X

X

VP6

X

X

    

*AAC and HE-AACare available when you install the MainConcept AAC Encoder plug-in.
Note: To add support for AAC and HE-AAC, purchase the MainConcept AAC Encoder plug-in for Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder. See the MainConcept website.

See also Configure settings for VP6 video and Configure settings for H.264 video.

Note: If you encode H.264 files, the output files are fragmented. You must flatten the output files before you can edit them in a video editing tool such as Adobe® Premiere® Pro, or before you can play them in Adobe® Media Player. Adobe provides a command-line flattening tool for this purpose; see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fmle_tools.

Input size
Specifies the video dimensions for the input video, in pixels.

Frame rate
Specifies the target frame rate in frames per second (fps).

Bit rate
Specifies the video bit rate in kilobytes per second (Kbps). Select a bit rate or enter a value. For VP6, you can enter a value from 0 to 20000. For H.264, the value depends on the selected level and ranges from 1 to 20000 Kbps.

You can specify a bit rate for a single stream or multiple bit rates to encode up to three streams simultaneously. The audio settings must be the same for all streams.

Note: When encoding multiple-bit rate streams, you can select which bit-rate stream to show in the Output window, after you click Start.

Output size
Specifies the video dimensions for final output. Setting the output size is useful if your video capture device doesn’t provide the output dimensions you require, or if you crop the input video and want to restore specific output dimensions. To avoid distortion when you adjust the value of either the width or the height, select Maintain Aspect Ratio. See Resize video output.

Crop
When selected, activates controls for cropping input video, to create focus or draw attention to a section of the image. See Crop video output.

Deinterlace
When selected, activates the video deinterlacing filter, which may improve video quality by applying a simple vertical blur. This option is available only when the input video height is greater than 480 pixels and the input video width is greater than 576 pixels. The deinterlacing filter is applied when encoding starts.

Timecode
When selected, embeds timecode in the video stream. You can choose to embed either the system time as timecode or device timecode. To configure timecode settings, click the settings icon next to the Timecode box. See Configure timecode settings.