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After Effects to Media Encoder
I Have both After Effects and Media Encoder. I finished a composition in AE (1920 x 1080) and I want to Export it that way as an MP4. I put ot in the render cue in After Effects and there is no H.264 choice only Quicktime.
Then I put it into the Media Encoder Queue and I put it to H.264 and when I go to render it there, it says it failed.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in Advance
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1 Reply
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After Effects is not intended for compression – only recently in last 3 years or so has dynamic link allowed this to be a possibility. Not sure why you are getting an error. I would export out a master file in quicktime ProRes 422 HQ. Then bring that into Media Encoder and set to .h264. May seem redundant, but other than a workaround for your immediate problem, this also allows you export multiple tests to find the right bit rate or to export to multiple sizes or codecs if need be. I always make a “master” QT lossless file and then compress deliverables from that. That way its only 1 long render and then multiple short compressions. Anyway, see if going direct out of AE first works. If AE still errors when rendering to ProRes, then you have a problem with the comp itself. Good luck!
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