How to get h264 back in Render Settings?

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February 16, 2019
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Hello, I'm missing the h264 option for rendering my video in After Effects, even after I tried using quicktime alternative 322 like most of the tutorials I could find suggested. I installed quicktime alternative 322 a few times already and even restarted my computer and h264 is still unavailable in after effects and media encoder. Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong or another way to get h264 back?

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Dave_LaRonde

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Don't make a Quicktime movie. Make mp4's instead. They support H.264.

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albanyanimationsAuthor

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I don't see an mp4 format in the After Effect menu.

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Rick Gerard

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You want to use the Adobe Media Encoder.

Apple no longer supports Quicktime H.264 compression technology, and it was always buggy. The QuickTime player will playback h,264 just fine but it does a lousy job of compressing it. The decision to remove it from the Output Module>QuickTime options was a good one.

The output module is not very good at rendering interframe codecs like MPEG because the Output Module can only look at one frame at a time. It is an efficient tool for rendering intraframe (every frame contains all the information) formats that are visually lossless. These are what you should use for digital intermediates and archival masters. The Adobe Media Encoder is very good at rendering h.264 and you can choose multi-pass compression to improve the quality even more. There are optimized presets for all popular delivery formats that you should be using to render your h.264 MP4 files until you become pretty much an expert in video compression.

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