Add back rendering support for H264 codec directly out of AE

Please add this back in! AME is slow much slower and less user friendly. I like to use AME for final delivery but for previews a quick h264 out of AE was so easy. I could be convinced to switch to always using AME if it wasn't so slow to use the UI, even though I have a very fast up to date computer.

this, a million times this! Removing codecs people use for work and client projects is ridiculous. Then you contact support and they say use the media encoder. Thanks for making life harder and adding more steps. Also the media encoder sucks terribly.

This is a step backwards, so ******! Been using adobe products since 1998 and subscribed as long as I haven't been a student.

Hello you can use AfterCodecs for that ! aescripts.com/aftercodecs/
H.264 quality / filesize is even better

I cannot believe they removed this. Everyone I know (viz design people) use H264. It's as if the people who build the products are completely unaware of their users.

Please re-add the h.264 codec in export settings. Thousands of editors and camera ops rely on this every day and it's daft to say that it's obsolete.

For instance - rendering out of AE takes HALF the time that it does in Media Encoder (sometimes longer if 3D and motion blur is involved). Even stranger - the codec still exists in Premiere! So the inconsistency is laughable.

Please fix this. It was an inept decision to remove it in the first place.

Nothing is wrong with them. Export to Media Encoder and choose H.264 and done.

yes the loading to encoder is very slow! every process in "from"-"to" encoder are incredible slow

With Media Encoder, you don't have to double-export. You can send your composition from AE directly to ME for encoding, and do a single export to H.264.

Try to put in one feedback idea at a time because it makes it easier to upvote the ones you really want 🙂

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.)