Add Ability to Export Videos to HEVC/H.265 in QuickTime MOV

QuickTime MOV is a wonderful video container. One of the benefits of MOV over MP4 is that it can support uncompressed audio.

In Premiere Pro's 2024.1 Beta (as of this post), there is a new codec option for exporting to MOV. Editors can now export to H.264 in the MOV container.

I personally would highly recommend also adding HEVC to this list as well. Not only is it possible to encode and decode HEVC videos in QuickTime MOV, but HEVC is also a superior codec than H.264 with greater encoding efficiency as well as preserving image quality better than H.264.

I would really love to have the abiltiy to export to HEVC while having uncompressed audio in my render. This can help with uploading to video hosting platforms that may compress the audio a lot to make it easier to stream to audiences at lower bandwidths. Exporting to HEVC in the MOV container will help preserve the audio quality and can make for a higher quality deliverable video file for clients.

Competing video editing platforms already support this feature. I would really appreciate it if Adobe were to also add this as well as I very much believe it can help with streaming the best quality video content to audiences everywhere.

Typo edited by mod