Features:
- Destination Publish to Adobe Stock Contributor
- Team Projects support
- Support Color Profiles from After Effects sources
- Automatically relink assets when importing a sequence
- Option to maintain playback in Premiere Pro while rendering in AME
- Streamlined bit depth and alpha channel settings (Quicktime only)
- Export support for ambisonic audio (h.264 only)
- Support for HLG (Hybrid LOG Gamma)
- Support for HDR in HEVC (h.265) export
- Export support for Panasonic AVC-LongGOP OP1b
- Ingest and transcoding functionality
- Media Browser panel
- Destination Publish to Twitter
- Support for Adobe Audition CC
- Support for Character Animator CC (preview)
- Quality and preformance improvements
- Destination Publish to Behance
- Multiple clip stitching on ingest
- Direct publishing to Facebook
- Expand 4K format support
- Improved image sequence workflows
- Automatic loudness correction
- Usability refinements
- MXF channelization
- Extended DNxHD support
- IRT compliance
- HDR to SDR conversion filter
- Time Interpolation setting

What's New in Media Encoder CC 2018:
- Specify a channel when publishing to YouTube and Vimeo
- Specify a playlist when publishing to YouTube
- Specify a page when publishing to Facebook
- Add a custom title when publishing to YouTube, Facebook, and Vimeo
- Add a custom video thumbnail when publishing to YouTube
- Notification of missing items in the queue before encoding begins
- H.264 Adaptive bitrate presets that automatically choose the best bitrate for an output based on frame size & frame rate of the source
- Animated GIF export is now available on both Mac and Windows
- Time Tuner effect improvements
- Newly optimized list of H.264 presets
- Format support for RF64 WAV Decode/Encode, decode for Sony X-OCN, and QuickTime DNx Smart Rendering
- Warning when importing non-native QuickTime sources
- Modify timecode for 720p 59.94 media