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H264 in After Effects
After getting not so great results with the H264 encoder built into After Effects, I decided to get Quicktime Pro in hopes that it came with a better H264 encoder. I then downloaded X264, which I heard yields even better results. My question is this. Now that I have the X264 encoder, will I get the same results if I’m exporting X264 from After Effects as I would from Quicktime, or FCP? Is it just the encoder that determines the results, or does the parent software have an effect on the quality as well? Thanks.
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Just the codec. Depending on what program you use may, however, determine which advanced controls are available in the codec’s properties.
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Michael
H264 encoder do interframe(or temporal) compression. I would suggest to use Media Encoder for rendering.
Add and manage items in the encoding queue
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Is that a quality decision? There is proof of AE adding a very very slight contrast adjustment to h.264, does that bypass?
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Or was the problem that AE didn’t allow 2-pass encoding?
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Thanks for all the great input. Looks like I’ll be trying Adobe Media Encoder. I don’t know why I never learned about that to begin with. I’m trying to get the best quality for my Vimeo upload, but apparently Vimeo re-encodes the file anyways. I don’t understand how there is such professional looking quality on that site, but my upload quality always gets stomped on.
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I’d like to know why did they remove the h264 encoding in After Effects CC. I know you can in THEORY export the video to Media Encoder but the short cut “Export using Adobe Encoder” is just not working.
I truly loved the h264 encoding specially in 10mps depth because it was so light, easy to transfer and with a great great quality. Any way, I guess I just can’t stay in the past. Is there a way I can render my video/animation with the quality and weight the good ol’ h264 had?
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