MP4’s not playing on Apple devices

[Walter Soyka]

[Jon Doughtie] “Renders to MP4 play fine on the PC but will not play on Apple devices (iPhone/iPad). We are using the default MP4 render settings. Also trying h.264 now.”

Adobe Media Encoder has presets for Apple devices. You should use one of these.

Also, don’t render directly to H.264 or MP4 from Ae directly. AME uses updated encoders and Ae does not.

Either render an intermediate and compress it with AME, or use AME to render to your Ae comp via drag and drop from Ae to AME or via File > Add After Effects Composition.

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[Jon Doughtie]

Regrettably, we do not yet have AME. This is a standalone copy of AE (I know, I know, crazy).

We’ll have the full suite coming soon, but not quite yet. We’ll see if an h.264 will tide us over until we have more options.

Thank you for your quick response!

[Darby Edelen]

I never use the MPEG-4 encoder. H.264 is what I’d recommend using in almost every case.

Also you may want to check out the Multiplexer tab in the Format Options of the Output Module. There should be a Stream Compatibility drop down and one of the options is iPod which generally should improve compatibility with most mobile devices.

Darby Edelen

[Todd Kopriva]

> Regrettably, we do not yet have AME. This is a standalone copy of AE (I know, I know, crazy).

Adobe Media Encode is part of the After Effects installer.

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