WebM and Theora in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

fnord software has posted a (beta) plugin that allows Adobe Premiere (and After Effects and Media Encoder), the two open source On2 codec WebM descendent (by Google) and Theora to read and write. Both want to provide an open source alternative to the licensed codecs H.264/H.265 and are used by some browsers (Chrome and Firefox) played directly via HTML5, if so encoded videos are embedded on web pages. The plugin itself is also open source and supported as part of the WebM format and the new VP9 codec, which can also encode UltraHD Liquiditations and Theora, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC audio. In the future WebM should also do an alpha channel and lossless compression. An alternative to the encoding of WebM (which is currently still faster and  more infos at bei fnordware.blogspot.de deutsche Version dieser Seite: WebM und Theora in Adobe Premiere Pro und After Effects