[Paul Symons]

But h264 with an .mp4 container does? Because that worked, just not a quicktime with .h264 codec. Nor would it work with ProRes 422. FCP7 and any other NLE can achieve this, the problem is that Adobe’s render engine isn’t “rendering” the video to a flat layer. It should be compiling all layers to a final output and transcoding that with whatever codec I choose. Case in point, I can export the same layers from AE to a h264 quicktime and it compiles and renders it just fine. The “render” engine in Premiere is broken.

Thank for no help and not entirely reading my comments!