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  • June 19, 2013
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Attempting to render out - this new incarnation of After Effcts no longer offers h.264 and h.264 Blu Ray.. Is this intended?

h.264 - mp4 output is the one we've always used most - and now completely gone...?

Searching for it - I found an h.264 container under the f4v output settings which I've never used. To get an h.264 out - must I go there?

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    Werlien wrote:

    How do I access this I looked in preferences under output and did not find it? If you need to be able to export these formats directly from After Effects, you can re-enable them by setting the preference Show Deprecated Formats In Output Module Settings in the Output preferences category.

    The Show Deprecated Formats In Output Module Settings is only available in After Effects CC. That option was removed in After Effects CC 2014.

    Even before they removed the option (but especially now), here's what you should be doing: using Adobe Media Encoder to create H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV videos from After Effects

    However, if you really want to encode h.264 directly out of AE (which is not recommended), you can choose to Save As CC in CC 2014 and open your projects in the older version and do it there.

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    Tim Kurkoski
    Adobe Employee
    Tim Kurkoski
    Adobe Employee
    June 19, 2013

    http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/04/whats-new-changed-after-effects-next.html

    • removed H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV formats from the default state of the After Effects render queue: In general, you should use Adobe Media Encoder to create output in these formats that have been deprecated from the After Effects render queue. If you need to be able to export these formats directly from After Effects, you can re-enable them by setting the preference Show Deprecated Formats In Output Module Settings in the Output preferences category.
    • commands for sending composition to Adobe Media Encoder (AME) encoding queue: There are two new menu commands and a keyboard shortcut for sending the active composition or compositions selected in the Project panel to the Adobe Media Encoder encoding queue: Composition > Add To Adobe Media Encoder Queue, File > Export > Add To Adobe Media Encoder Queue, Ctrl+Alt+M (Windows), and Command+Option+M (Mac OS). While exploring Adobe Media Encoder, be sure to check out the new DNxHD import and export features, as well as the Match Source new features for automatically matching output settings to those of the source item.


    > Searching for it - I found an h.264 container under the f4v output settings which I've never used. To get an h.264 out - must I go there?

    No. F4V files are intended for playback via Flash only. The data inside is H.264, but the container format is not intended for uses other than Flash.

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    ScubaBadgerAuthor
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    June 19, 2013

    Hi Tim

    Shortly after writing the post I found the Composition>Add to adobe Media Encoder Queue (Ctrl+Alt+M) and once that had opened there are more H.264 settings than you can shake a stick at.

    Why isn't there some sort of note within the window of after affects to the effect that AME is so much better equipped than it was and the link (Ctrl+Alt+M) highlighted? Would make an awful lot of sense...

    Thanks

    Dave

    Tim Kurkoski
    Adobe Employee
    Tim Kurkoski
    Adobe Employee
    June 19, 2013

    ScubaBadger wrote:

    Why isn't there some sort of note within the window of after affects to the effect that AME is so much better equipped than it was and the link (Ctrl+Alt+M) highlighted? Would make an awful lot of sense...

    That's a very good suggestion, and something that we considered while designing the changes for AE CC.

    There is one notification that we included: at the bottom of the Formats list in the Output Module Settings dialog, there is a bit of helpful text, "More Formats In AME".

    We would have liked a more noticeable message, but the other designs we tried tended to make this dialog less usable. When we tried to add something to it, other parts of the dialog got pushed around and it got ugly really quick.

    We also did not want to mislead users about what functionality the AME workflow provides. Linking the AE Render Queue and AME could imply that the render settings in the RQ translate to AME, which they currently do not. To be clear, we'd like to do this in the future, but there's a lot of work needed to make that happen. For the time being, AME is a distinctly different render path than the RQ.

    Finally, we like to use our blog (http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects) to educate users. It tends to be a more effective and less annoying way to deliver messages like this one. If you don't follow it, I recommend you do. We've been positing a lot of detail about AE CC this week, with more to come.

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