Add a legacy DNxHD output option that would be compatible with older Avid versions

John,

It's been a YEAR AND THREE MONTHS since this came up. No fix for the problem in any subsequent version of After Effects.

The reason I bring this up is because yesterday my C drive crashed and I lost my working copy of 22.2.1 and am unable to download it from the Creative Cloud Application anymore due to some policy change about downloading versions older than 2 versions.

I've continued to pay for a legal licesne of AE because it's the right thing to do even though I can't use the newer version to the change. Adobe has continued to do nothing to rectify the situation and now I can't even work without some convoluted work around requiring multiple steps of rendering.

What are we supposed to do without a fix? I'd say thank you, but I'm all out of courtesy.

Michael Jackson

We are at 6 months with no resoution or update from Adobe on this topic.

Rendering to DNxHR is not a solution as the movie is unplayable on the desktop in Quicktime Player.

Rendering to DNxHD does not work in older Avid Media Composer programs

This is wildly irresponsible on Adobe's part and makes me really want to search out new non Adobe solutions.

Looking for an update.  This issue isn't going away any time soon. 

It's been 3 months since we've heard anything from Adobe. Is there any movement or plans that can be shared?

Depending on your payment plan, $150 some odd dollars has been paid to Adobe per user., and no feedback given from Adobe returned.

Just silence.

So, here's the point where I start to get really frustrated with this.  I raised this issue in October of 2022.  Since then, we've had MULTIPLE updates to AE, which is now currently on v23.2.1 and I'm still stuck on v22.2.1 because any other version after that renders AVID QTs that are unusable by the productions that I work with.  That is beyond my control. I can't tell the production to update to the latest version of AVID.  So, I'm STUCK.  I can't upgrade to the latest version.  I can't use the latest features, updated stability features of existing features, or anything new because of this change that I'm pretty sure no one asked for.  I have been using AE professionally for 13 years now and this is the first time in the course of this that something like this has happened.  So, I'm beyond frustrated that adding a Legacy AVID format is not something that couldn't easily be added amongst all the other fixes and additions.  This is something that has affected a great deal of people who may not be here on the Support Community to say something about it.  You've effectively nerfed us while the Nuke users have no issues providing renders to Editorial with the latest version of their software.

Hey John,

Just wanted to check in and see if you if any traction had been made on getting a Legacy render option for Avid DNxHD Format renders?

-Matt B

This is a major issue.  Any  updates? 

Thank you for this feature request.  This is a problem for our shop's workflow and we are also forced to continue using older versions of Premiere, After Effects and Media Encoder.  Our process uses Quicktime animations and the work-arounds cause other inconvenient issues.

I hope Adobe can help us with this.

Thank you, John!  Having the ability to render a legacy AVID format would be fantastic!

The workaround is to render DNXHR and force resize it to 1080p in the output settings. I haven't had an AE with a problem, and we've done 4, 5 shows with these settings.