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How to render H.264 files to MP4 not M4V?
I made a small animated signature and rendered it out perfectly fine with the settings H.264 to MP4.
But now everytime I render the files it changes the extension to M4V and I can’t play those types of files and it won’t work with my editing software either. How do I change it back?
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Can’t you just change the extension name once it has rendered?
conradolson.com
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yep… and i would think your nle would do the conversion to the type of format and compression that it wants, so you may want to try rendering from ae as lossless animation, or if it doesn’t have an alpha channel, perhaps quicktime photo-jpeg at around 95% quality, then import that into your nle.
if you nle does not import quicktime files, then try a compression app to compress either of those files to .mp4 with h.264 compression. adobe’s media encoder should do this, or you could try mpegstream clip. just import your quicktime and choose file>export to mpeg4 and set the settings accordingly… in particular i’d enable multipass, b-frames, manually set the frame rate and leave the file unscaled. that pretty much leaves quality, limit data rate and audio compression for you to set to match your nle’s settings.
Kevin Camp
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quicktime pro is a fast and decent way to compress files. The other advice is solid as well.
Scott
SuperNova
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Same Problem here.
Adobe Media Encoder CS6 produces m4vs when I choose h.264 as format.
Settings are all alright. Even the filename-preview has the mp4 ending as it should! But in the end a m4v is created.
Is this a bug, a feature or do I miss some hidden setting? -
Exporting in H.264 with the audio disabled will continually produce an .m4v, despite the output file being listed as .mp4 in Adobe Media Encoder CS6.
Workaround is to mute audio in the project and export with audio or use another encoder (MPEG Streamclip) to create an .mp4 from a master. -
Dave people want to render h 2.64 because it doesn’t take must time to render and it doesn’t take up much space. Every post I see you in about h 2.64 is the same cut and paste response from you. QUIT IT! Answer the question provided or STFU. If someone wants to render H264 then let them render it.
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I found the answer, Don’t listen to dave: https://forums.adobe.com/message/5532113
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FWIW it’s 2015-04-02 and I’m running into this same exact problem with Adobe Premiere CS6 fully patched to the latest version as of today’s date.
a week ago I was able to render to mp4’s just fine even with export audio unchecked. However, today with export audio unchecked it will only render m4v files.
I’ve researched for an hour reading all the work arounds and yes checking export audio allows it to render Mp4s again. And yes all my multiplexer output in CS6 is set correctly.
So, I’m guessing the sometime last week some kind of update happened to my CS6 and now I have to export audio to get it to render mp4s. I find this crazy that this bug has gone on for years according to people’s posts way back to 2013 or earlier. This reminds me of the media not found bug that never got fixed and every now and then I have to do the cumbersome workaround for that bug. Ugghh! This software is way too expensive to allow these types of bugs to go on unfixed for this long! vent vent vent. 🙁
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Hi Ari. Remember if you render only video but not the audio, the h.264 resulting format always be m4v. The problem seems to be the check-off audio render. Have you’re rendering video without audio?. Taste rendering audio and video (click on both check-boxs) and problem solved!
Salutes,
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