Exporting mp4 motion graphics

[John Williams]

Hi there, After Effects used to allow Export direct to an H.264 (mp4) but it was removed as the Adobe Media Encoder (which comes included with After Effects) handles export option a whole lot better, therefore the recommendation is that you:
File/Export/Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue and choose your mp4 setting from there.

Hope that helps;)

John Williams

Soho Editors

[Walter Soyka]

AME is a good suggestion.

AfterCodecs is a solid third-party option to add direct output support for a number of codecs like H.264:
https://aescripts.com/aftercodecs/

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Aakash Chopra]

I’ve seen that using AME reduces quality.

[Fedias Hadjixenofontos]

Following the steps John Williams said is the standard way to go, however, you may sometimes experience some crashes especially in very heavy files that are packed with effects. In such cases, your method is more solid so just try a few other converters to reduce the file size. There are a lot out there.

We do this very often as well. We render avi files like you are already doing and then use Bigasoft converters to reduce the file size down. We are not affiliated with Bigasoft in anyway but we have found that we can easily reduce down a 500-600mb video to 50mb or less without significant loss in quality. You just need to tweak the settings until you find a quality/file size that works for you and then make a preset out of them because there are a lot of setting you can adjust.

Hope this helps!

Fedias Hadjixenofontos
Digireal Studios