• Adobe After Effects

  Can’t render h.264 from my tiff sequence

  Posted by Levan Khomeriki on January 11, 2013 at 9:56 am

  Hello,

  I have a 2K tiff sequence of a 90min film and am trying to render an h.264 file for the BluRay from CS5.5 @ Hackintosh, but it freezes on the last frame – i.e. it takes around 6 hours to render from start to finish and when it reaches the end, it just freezes with no further response.

  Maybe it’s worth mentioning, that I’m using a 60gb SSD as a system drive and it gets filled up during the render.

  Is there a way to fix it?

  Thanks.

  Vishesh Arora replied 13 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Vishesh Arora

  January 11, 2013 at 1:21 pm

  Rendering h.264 codec from After Effects is not recommended as h.264 uses temporal compression.

  Go for Adobe Media Encoder to render .h264.

  Vishesh Arora
  3D and Motion Graphics Artist
  Films Rajendra

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  Levan Khomeriki

  January 11, 2013 at 6:47 pm

  I just figured it our myself and am currently waiting for Media Encoder to finish encoding.

  Thanks for the answer, though.
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  Kevin Monahan

  January 11, 2013 at 10:36 pm

  Vishesh,
  Thanks for continuing to recommend Adobe Media Encoder over the Render Queue for H.264 output. It’s the right way to go.

  Kevin Monahan
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  Adobe After Effects
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  Vishesh Arora

  January 12, 2013 at 8:23 am

  Always glad to help Kevin

  Vishesh Arora
  3D and Motion Graphics Artist
  Films Rajendra

  Blog:
  https://digieffects.wordpress.com

  Demo Reel(3D):
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

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