Exporting HTML5 videos

[Oliver De morassé]

We wish to produce video spokespersons – videos with transparent backgrounds giving the appearence that the spokespersons are ‘on top’ of the website with the content shinning through – for integration into existing websites. We do not use existing services such as youtube etc.

[Todd Kopriva]

If you need an alpha channel (transparency) for web video, then you need to use FLV with the On2 VP6 codec. H.264 doesn’t do alpha channels.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Shane Taylor]

So, I am curious, why doesn’t AME and Pr and Ae use the same encoders. Wouldn’t that make sense that since all three programs can do encoding, that they would share the code base. I may be missing something here, but wouldn’t that just make sense from a SW development concept?

[Todd Kopriva]

Premiere Pro does use the same encoders as Adobe Media Encoder. In fact, the correct way to say this is that Premiere Pro uses Adobe Media Encoder for all exports.

After Effects is moving toward doing the same.

After Effects CC (12.0) has deprecated some of its exporters to use Adobe Media Encoder, as described here:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/04/whats-new-changed-after-effects-next.html

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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