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Add back rendering support for H264 codec directly out of AE

Around 2012 you removed the option for rendering a .mp4 file directly out of AE. Please add it back. The work around is to either render in a different codec and compress that in media encoder, or to launch the render directly from media encoder from AE (which is extremely slow and cumbersome, especially when you have large/complex project files). Not sure why removing functionality seemed like a good idea at the time...?

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  • Daniel Martin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As Adobe Media Encoder doesn't render the same way After Effects does this is a critical feature. If whatever causes AME to render differently than after effects was fixed I would be OK with just using Adobe Media Encoder.

    https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911308-media-encoder/suggestions/34857124-fix-whatever-causes-effects-to-render-differently

  • Yair Katznelson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    H264 is still the most widely used codec & the lack of exporting it straight from AE is hallucinatory,
    There is a free AE plugin similar to After codecs called voukoder which evolves quickly & contains many HW acceleration encodings.
    https://www.voukoder.org/

  • Yeah commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Looks like Adobe needs some advanced AI algorithms to bring it back.... or maybe they spent all their money on Tiffany Haddish wage and have no more budget for this. :P

  • Ferdi Kubin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hey Antoine, yes, I have! I think it's a great plugin, but I don't really see why I have to spend extra money to use a basic export feature.

  • Ferdi Kubin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    While it's true that you should not use H264 as a production format, in the real world you share preview renders with clients and superiors that don't need to be excellent quality. Quick H264 export from After Effects was perfect for this. Now, if you just want your art director to take a look at an edit of ******-quality playblasts, you need to render them lossless - totall overkill - and compress them afterwards. Super annoying extra step.

  • corey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Adobe you are absolutely blowing it. I’m at a major studio and am trying to render and I can’t because of this. We can’t update to the latest AE because the studio isn’t able to update to windows 10 for some probably very legitimate reasons. Now I hear you are implementing some sort of legal thing where you can sue for using older versions of software? Unbelievable.

  • Sergio Bástian Bishop commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In CS6 we had the H.264 MP4 option, it was BEAUTIFUL. I just compared a H264 MP4 from CS6 with a Quicktime MOV H264 in CC 2017, and MP4 was reaaaallly better quality and size.

    Now in CC 2018 we have not even Quicktime H264... Frustrating.

  • Pissed off AE User commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm seriously looking for and alternative to the whole suite, this codec issue has been going on for years, Support has no clue how to fix and they just leave you hanging, I can't export .mov files without the h.264 codec preset for quicktime, this is so frustrating

  • John Myers commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add H264 back, your awful AME barely works half the time with connection errors or simply hanging interminably on renders. Your PROFESSIONAL USERS need these basic output options in order to circumvent the highly unstable AME.

  • Michael commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Adobe with every version tries hard to users leave adobe suite. This is most stupid thing i've ever seen. Oh, no! the most stupid thing in AE for example was not support professional graphics cards and not follow standards in graphic industry. Sick leftist minds!

  • Prowl commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    What people don't seem to get that is if you export to the ME Render Queue you can carry on working...

    There are some features in the AE queue that are missing from the ME - Queue I think.

  • Elnatan Rodrigues commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Por favor, habilitem o codec H.264 no After Effects, o Dynamic Link vive dando problemas, e eu acabo tendo que renderizar duas vezes meu vídeo (uma em .mov no After e outra em .MP4 no Premiere). Esse Dynamic Link presta para nada, ao transferir o vídeo para o Media Encoder, o Dynamic Link fica carregando e não funciona a renderização! Esse bug está atrasando minha vida, seria mil vezes melhor ter o codec H.A64 no After para renderizar direot em .mp4

  • Lachlan Phillips commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Adobe should buy out After Codecs and integrate it. This is like showing up to a 5 star restaurant and finding out that it's BYO cutlery...

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