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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...?

75 replies

Inspiring
September 28, 2022
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
Participating Frequently
September 28, 2022
No H.264 in AE Render Engine anymore? Whaddya nuts????
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
Media Encoder workflow from AE works fine for me now, just need getting used to a bit.
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
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...
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
You can use https://aescripts.com/aftercodecs/ you will have a better quality or lower filesize than Adobe's H264 and directly into AE native render queue
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
for parallel rendering of several projects from the command line or terminal. Especially for this, I wrote a script. and now it is useless.
mrBeep
Known Participant
September 28, 2022
@Victoria Nece
What is the reason the H264 files are not rendered directly out of AE and people has to use ME?
Participant
September 28, 2022
This is an especially important issue for freelancers who may not have or may not be able to install AME on the computers provided to them. H.264 is still an ideal WIP codec, and it can be painful to budgets and to sanity to force users to wait on AME when it still feels like the Dynamic Link from AE to AME is at beta quality at best.
Participating Frequently
September 28, 2022
Why hasn't After Effects made some kind of statement regarding this? Offered an alternative workflow? Anything?
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
@74350 Simonton - Exporting h.264 from the media encoder results in colors that do not match what is shown in the composition. They look much more saturated. It's a color space issue and currently there is no way to manage colors in Media Encoder. I never experienced this problem with the old render que option. It's a problem when you've got clients demanding very specific color values. The work around is to de-saturate colors in the comp then guess what the results will be after rendering. No one should have to do this though, it's ridiculous.