Drastic Technologies MediaReactor Lite

MediaReactor Lite is built for Adobe and specifically supports Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe After Effects. As a PRM plug-in, it also works within any other plugin-compatible Adobe product. It's an optimized version of Drastic's MediaReactor suite that provides the most requested import and export formats, reading camera raw and standard codecs and writing MOV and MP4 files including ProRes. For the full list of supported hosts and formats, see Drastic Technologies' page.

MediaReactor Lite reads MOV files as a QuickTime replacement, so you can work with MOV footage without QuickTime installed. It covers standard MOV codecs such as DV variants, AVCi100, uncompressed 8- and 10-bit YCbCr, and reference files pointing at h.264, ProRes, DV and AVCI. Some MOV codecs, including DNxHD, are noted as licensable. Because the read path doesn't depend on QuickTime, MOV import works directly inside the supported Adobe applications. Check the developer's page for current codec details.

MediaReactor Lite runs on Windows 7 or greater and on macOS 13 Ventura through macOS 15 Sequoia. It was last updated on March 12, 2025. Before installing, make sure your Adobe host application is one of the supported products — Premiere Pro, Media Encoder or After Effects — or another plugin-compatible Adobe product. For any additional system details or licensing steps, refer to Drastic Technologies' page.

MediaReactor Lite is an optimized, limited edition of Drastic's MediaReactor plugin set, offering the most requested read and write formats rather than the complete range. If you need file formats it doesn't cover, Drastic offers the Workstation version of the Adobe MediaReactor plugin set, which supports a wider selection. MediaReactor Lite reads camera raw formats like Phantom Cine, Panasonic VRW, Canon RMF and CRM, Kinefinity KRW and Magic Lantern MLV, and writes formats including Sony XAVC-S MP4 and MPEG-2. See the developer's page to compare the two versions.

MediaReactor Lite is listed as free in this catalog, so no price is shown here. Some codecs it can write, such as h.264/AAC, are noted as licensable through a third party, which means specific format support may carry separate licensing outside the plugin itself. Licensing terms can change over time, so this listing isn't the place to confirm them. For current licensing terms and any third-party codec requirements, check Drastic Technologies' page before relying on the plugin in production.