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vanessaa28291406
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September 28, 2022
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Add back rendering support for H264 codec directly out of AE

  • September 28, 2022
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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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    JohnColombo17100380
    Community Manager
    JohnColombo17100380Community Manager
    Community Manager
    March 13, 2023

    @prowl Our Formats team does have this on their list for the future. Please make a new Ideas thread for that specific request when you can in order to keep the conversation focused.

     

    Cheers,

    - John, After Effects Engineering Team 

    prowl
    prowl
    Known Participant
    March 13, 2023

    @JohnColombo17100380 Great. Many thanks.  How about H.265 with Alpha ( in AE and ME ) 

    Find it crazy there is no lightweight Tranparent file formate export.  Used to be able to do that with FLV.

     

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    vanessaa28291406Author
    Participant
    October 18, 2022

    THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! Even though it took a while... (I think I wrote this circa 2017). But either way, THANK YOU!

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    KK____
    Participant
    October 18, 2022
    Thanks, this is excellent news!

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    JohnColombo17100380
    Community Manager
    JohnColombo17100380Community Manager
    Community Manager
    October 18, 2022

    Hi everyone,

    We are extremely pleased to announce that After Effects 2023 (version 23.0) supports rendering H.264 video directly in the Render Queue, along with other highly-requested improvements like Selectable Track Mattes, new Composition Presets, and much more. Full details are available here: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/whats-new.html 

     

    Thanks again for adding your votes to this request,

    - John, After Effects Engineering Team 

      JohnColombo17100380
      Community Manager
      JohnColombo17100380Community Manager
      Community Manager
      September 28, 2022
      We are very happy to announce that starting with After Effects (Beta) 23.0x11, H.264 is now available as an option in the Output Module Settings dialog allowing you to encode to H.264 directly from the AE Render Queue.

      More information on the Beta builds and rendering H.264 is available on the After Effects (Beta) forums: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-beta-discussions/feature-focus-exporting-h-264-from-the-after-effects-render-queue/td-p/13117618 ( https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-beta-discussions/feature-focus-exporting-h-264-from-the-after-effects-render-queue/td-p/13117618 )

      Thank you for all your input on this. Please give the Beta a try and let us know how this feature is working for you.
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        autokroma
        Known Participant
        September 28, 2022
        "We are very happy to announce that starting with After Effects (Beta) 23.0x11, H.264 is now available as an option in the Output Module Settings dialog allowing you to encode to H.264 directly from the AE Render Queue.
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        Great news !
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        Joosst
        Participating Frequently
        September 28, 2022
        A tip for everyone on a mac: export it as ProRes from AE (that's by far the quickest export anyway), and then open that file in Quicktime. Save it as 1080p (or whatever) from there, and Quicktime will convert it to h264 blazingly fast (much faster than AE could ever do, because Quicktime is so optimized for Apple's hardware). I've been doing this for years and it's actually a pretty decent workflow.
        pentagramwookie
        pentagramwookie
        Inspiring
        September 28, 2022
        This is super important. If this can't be fixed at least remove Frame.io from After Effects and put it in Media Encoder, it makes no sense to send a gigantic file for review. I'm not going to upload a one-minute 10GB video file for review from Frame.IO, makes no sense.

        The workarounds to send an H.264 via Frame.io are beyond annoying at this point.
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        Kindhearted_Delight5C7F
        Participant
        September 28, 2022
        Adobe is trash for removing this and they should be publicly shamed.

        HSSSSSS, SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.

        But seriously. Why are you such degenerates?
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