Problem exporting. Unsupported codec...
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I created a Hyper-lapse out of photos I took in After Effects. I transferred from there to Premiere, cropped it a bit and then tried exporting using these settings:
H.264
Width x Height: 3k x 2k
FPS: 30
Field Order: Progressive
Aspect: Square Pixels (1.0)
TV Standard: Main
Level: 5.2
Rendered at Maximum Depth
VBR, 2 Pass
Target Bitrate: 40
Maximum Bitrate: 40
Use Maximum Render Quality
I'm pretty sure I used the exact same settings for a previous hyper-lapse and it worked fine on that one. I can play the video fine on my computer, since I have VLC, but on my phone I can't play it like a simple video file and upload it to Instagram.
What am I missing????? This is driving me nuts. Does the export from After Effects have to be specific type??
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Have you try a export from Media Encoder?
Don't ask wy, but sometimes the encoder from MediaEncoder works a litel better than
AE or Premiere Pro.
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40 Mbps is a very high bit rate. You can't export directly to H.264 from After Effects, but any format that you can uses the same engine under the hood as Premiere and Media Encoder (it's called MediaCore), so where you export from shouldn't make a difference. To save time, I would just pre-comp your After Effects comp to crop there, rather than use Dynamic Link to send it to Premiere, then queue it to Adobe Media Encoder.
Is there a reason you're using 40 Mbps? Have you tried a lower bit rate, such as 16 or 20? If so, does your footage break up too much because of the speed? You can also look into exporting an intermediate file from After Effects with ProRes, Cineform, or DNxHR, and then use something like Handbrake, which will export using x264, and open-source version of H.264 that has much better compression than the MainConcept encoder that Adobe licenses for their products.
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It's a good bitrate, but try setting like this:
Target Bitrate: 40
Maximum Bitrate: 50
Also make sure that your video is working at 8 Bit Depth if you want to play it on your cell phone, that may be the issue. It is difficult for a phone to support more than 8 Bit Depth.

