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Problem batch exporting odd sized mp4’s in After Effects?
Just been given the great task of converting hours and hours of supplied image sequences into mp4/ h.264 files for playing through silverlight. I envisaged assembling these sequences with their supplied sound tracks in after effects and outputting to mp4 with h.264 encoding
I’m working at a non broadcast size (1000 x 576)and cannot get the after effects h.264 exporter in the render queue (adobe media encoder) to swallow this size without throwing up an error. It wants me to stretch the footage to different sizes based on what few presets are available, when I want to maintain the current size.
I know I can export exactly what I want via the file menu (file> export>MPEG4) or via quicktime if I export a lossless file first, but I can’t batch that in a render queue & I will have quite a lot of files to set off + I don’t really want to have to make intermediate files.
Is there any way to get the mpeg 4 render options as seen under file> export, working in the render queue as the standard options in the render queue seem limited?
Alternatively, can any anyone recommend a good batch mp4 encoder app in the event I have to convert prerendered files.
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3 Replies
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if u had AE CS4, it comes with an external adobe encoder which doesn’t ask you to change sizes etc.
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That’s a pity. Guess that’ll means creating lots of lossless files from AE to compress in something else.
Well, I’m currently in a pc based environment so apple compressor’s out. Is there an overwhelming opinion as to what is the best encoder amongst say, canopus procoder; Autodesk cleaner XL, Sorenson squeeze?
I’ve also seen amazing results from ffmpeg by Fabio Sonnati but its very 3rd party & I haven’t got far into its myriad settings. Guess I’ll have to try the demo’s where available for the above
https://www.flashvideofactory.com/test/DEMO720_Heima_H264_500K.html
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There is a workaround, but don’t blaim me if it doesn’t work.
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Simply duplicate a *.vpr video preset file
from…C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe After Effects CS3Support FilesPlug-insFormatMediaIO(presets)systemen_us
open the duplicate in notepad
(example…) change the Data=”1024 to Data=”1000″.Data=”1024″ ID=”1″ Name=”Frame Width [pixels]” Size=”4″ Type=”VDataType_DWORD”Property Data=”576″ ID=”2″ Name=”Frame Height [pixels]
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If you make any new spaces, then AE will probably crash.
All you have do you is make the resolutions the same, then you can change the preset’s other stuff in the render queue.
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