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...?
Vanessa Appleby
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Laura Panella
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As of CC2018, the ability to output H264 mov's is gone from both AE and Media Encoder. This is CRUSHING my livelihood, as this is an extremely common deliverable in the world of broadcast commercials. If we can't make them, they'll find someone who can. Please put this back in the output menu!!!!!
(Secondarily, I really miss onion skinning in the paint tool from ten or so years ago. Tertiarily, it'd be great to have a panel for 'swatches,' where you can keep specific colors up at all times to be able to eyedropper them from any composition -- the current workaround is creating a composition with those colors as solids and making it tiny, placing it with your side panels and locking it, but it always goes away on restart or quit, which is a bummer.)
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David Simonton
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After Effects can export H.264 by adding your comp to the Media Encoder queue; can you tell us what's missing or bad about this workflow? What features do you get in AE's native render queue that you can't do by sending it to Media Encoder?
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Anonymous
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Bring back the ability to export H.264 format in After Effects. I use that codec weekly for my work. What is wrong with you people???!!
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Benjamin Nichols
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Thanks for your response Tim, Media Encoder is a nice solution. Though I was wondering if H264 is offered as an output option in the render queue, it might be nice to be able to get better results rather than having to double handle a file, saving time on the user end.
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Do you use Adobe Media Encoder to export your compositions to H.264? The H.264 options in AME are very flexible.
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Benjamin Nichols
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The current H264 compression out of the render queue compresses the quality of video, whilst keeping the file size still quite large. Overall better compression would be great out of AE, rather than rendering out Lossless or ProRes4444 and then compressing using QuickTime 7 Pro.
