History
For those who don’t know WebM is the open movie format created by Google and is an audiovisual media file format. It is primarily intended to offer a royalty-free alternative to use in the HTML5 video and the HTML5 audio elements. It has a sister project, WebP, for images.
Performance
WebM format provides excellent quality for video files. In addition to that, the playback of this video format is effortless, so the videos in this format can be easily played even on machines with low technical characteristics. This format is perfect for online streaming, and it’s free! Files are
After researching it seems Adobe refused to put this plugin into their Premiere and Media Encoder products, at least up to Adobe Media Encoder 2020 which is the version I tested with.
The solution is to either download a file from this third party company called fnord1. This plugin does not appear to have been updated since 2017 as of the time I’m writing this article so I feel confident in providing the file myself just in case something were to happen to that website there will always be another copy here that is still – up-to-date – hah.
Download WebM Plugin for
Adobe Media Encoder or Premiere
