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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Seb James
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This would be so useful, I'd love just to be able to output as a high or medium quality H264 file straight from AE, without needing to worry about if Media Encoder is going to render it properly, or without having to render a .mov to then convert.
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THR commented
Hi Luke,
I started using the Voukoder codec, it adds every format I needed to AE and has an easy installer. The codec is free and helped a lot for me.
https://github.com/Vouk/voukoder
https://www.voukoder.org/forum/thread/783-downloads-instructions/ -
Luke Flegg
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I cannot believe you've removed this feature.
I'm currently trying to export via AME which I don't want to have to do and it's saying it's failed to communicate with AME. I've tried updating everything via Adobe Cloud. I just don't want this today. I just want the quick and simple way, how it used to work. -
Steve Davy
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Seriously, it seems like both the CG software companies I rely on (Adobe and Autodesk) literally go out of their way to screw their users with every new release. What absolute idiot thought it was a good idea to remove a whole bunch of formats and codecs from AE in this way? Not only does this complicate and slow down the output process, but Media Encoder absolutely sucks, and furthermore your render settings, file name, file format, codec, and output path now NO LONGER GET SAVED WITH YOUR AE PROJECT. This was my workflow for almost two decades -- save the project file with render module (or sometimes multiple output modules) so that you could always retrace your output steps, often a necessity in the professional world. But, apparently Adobe knows and cares nothing about the actual world of professional artists and animators. I really wonder who they think their user base is?
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Caleb Grady
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Please do this, ME is so slow to launch and any rendered frames in your comp in AE don't carry over like how they do in Ae renderer
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John Helms
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For all things good, put quicktime output of H264 directly back into After Effects!
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Corey Dimond
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Please, add back a simple light codec like h264. Preferably h264. AME is garbage and I would never use it except I have to now. The decision to remove this was ludicrous. No here we are 8 years later. Clients and studios still ask for h264. I have to wait for AME to get its **** together. It’s slow. It’s awkward. The default settings are trash. It feels like a 30 year old program. Just let me render from the render queue and trim the fat for crissakes. Get all of those effects and codecs no one uses out of there.
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Daniel Martin
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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.
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Ronald Lee Wiggins Jr.
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Media Encoder: Slow To Launch. Slow to add items into the Queue. Slow to change encoding presets/setting. Non-Intuitive to change render quality and image sequence naming in Media Encoder. Inconsistency between AE Render Queue features/settings and ME. Currently using ME is a big time suck and kills momentum. Please return the H264 feature to AE.
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sam yousefian
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SERIOUSLY!!! PLEASE ADD IT BACK!
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Yair Katznelson
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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
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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
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Ferdi Kubin
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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.
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Antoine (Autokroma.com)
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Ferdi did you have a look at AfterCodecs ? https://autokroma.com/AfterCodecs/
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Ferdi Kubin
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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.
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Adam Barton
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Please return direct export to H264. It's a working tool for me. Thanks!
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大輔 山下 commented
Thank you!
but.We want Japanese users to be equipped with standard features.... -
Pete Foley
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It's an extra purchase, but https://aescripts.com/aftercodecs/ is excellent. And does exactly this and more.
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Please restore the mp4 (h.264 format) direct export feature that was possible in previous versions.
It is possible to send to and export from AME even under current conditions.I feel inconvenient because I can not give out what I was able to release freely.
In the current version with Ae's render queue function, it is easy for users to be able to export directly.
以前のバージョンで可能だったmp4(h.264形式)の直接書き出し機能を戻してほしい。
現状でもAMEに送り書き出すことは可能ですが、気軽に出せていたものが出せなくなり不便に感じます。Aeのレンダーキュー機能がある現行バージョンでは直接書き出しができる事がユーザーにとっては手軽です。
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Corey Dimond
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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.