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tristratos
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June 21, 2014
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After Effects CC 2014 - removal of H.264, MPEG-2, WMV, FLV, F4V, and SWF exporters - WHY !?

  • June 21, 2014
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While reading the features of AfterEffects CC2014, I noticed the following:

"removal of H.264, MPEG-2, WMV, FLV, F4V, and SWF exporters from After Effects"

THAT IS IS REDICULOUS!!

NO FLV !?!?
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT USERS TO IMPORT INTO FLASH ??
IF no FLV export is available under After Effects CC 2014, there is NO WAY to EMBED an flv into flash !! (Linking is NOT always what is wanted!!)


NO H264 !?!?!
HAVE YOU GONE CRAZY ?!!?!?

YOU BREAK WORKFLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT IS REDICULOUS!!!


Any chance of restoring such features so that it makes updating to it worthwhile ?

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      Correct answer Todd_Kopriva

      added my post to that thread as well...

      Hope there is an official response to this issue that would justify wether we should upgrade at all...


      See this for an explanation for the change regarding H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV and for the recommend workflow:

      using Adobe Media Encoder to create H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV videos from After Effects

      See this for an explanation for the change regarding FLV and F4V and for the recommended workflow:

      removal of FLV and F4V export features from Adobe Media Encoder, After Effects, and Premiere Pro

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      Mattias_Lindberg
      Participant
      June 26, 2014

      At my company, we still make flash banners. Lots of them, every week. I use the feature of creating text animation in After Effects. It has bundles of great presets for text animation, that can be used and exported as SWF. First, Adobe removes the functionality to import SWF into Flash CC. So I have to use Flash CS6 as well. Still need both though, cause I need to import Illustrator documents too (Flash CS6 doesn't support the latest version). And now with After Effects CC 2014, they remove SWF export all together...

      At my job, there is someone employed doing kerning for text in Photoshop. For me to keep that perfect kerning for the Flash banner, I have to import the PSD to After Effects and then export the text layers as SWF to get that kerning preserved. I noticed it was possible to import PSD into the new Flash CC 2014, but the kerning was messed up on import.

      Come on, Flash is not dead damnit! Why are you removing features that we rely on?

      Adobe rage today...

        imeilfx
        imeilfx
        Inspiring
        June 22, 2014

        Sorry. In AME CC 2014 you can't export to flv and f4v so if you wish to render from After Effects to flv you have to use previous version of AME (AME  CC).

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        tristratosAuthor
        Participating Frequently
        June 22, 2014

        Excuse me to say but that is REDICULOUS!!

        If that was ment to change workflow and user Media Encoder, that would just be fine (even awkward but at least it would work..)


        NOT being able to render out to FLV from AE CC 2014 at all, provides NO reason of updating...

        There is NO format left to be used to EMBED video INTO FLASH!!!!

        If one updates to new version, demanding of still keeping the old one is simply REDICULOUS!!!

        WHY on earth this was decided? WHAT weird mind thought of this !!?!?

        That is REDICULOUS!!

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          scattar
          Participating Frequently
          June 22, 2014

          See this discussion. Re: Show Deprecated Formats in Output Module Settings don't appear in my output option!

          It's already started to gather some momentum and it would be good for you to voice your opinion in there to try and keep it going.

            imeilfx
            imeilfx
            Inspiring
            June 22, 2014

            Decision is understandable - after all, you can export to AME render where you will find all the possible formats and codecs.

            These formats are disappearing from the Render Queue but you can render fo them in AME using Composition/Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue...

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