[Sergio Cabrera] “*Must render from AE (not media encoder)
*Must render in AfterCodecs (h.264 mp4)”
Why? You can get way better quality H264 outside AE.
[Sergio Cabrera] “*Can’t use RenderGarden
*Can’t use farm rendering since it’s only for image sequence, not final renders”
Rendergarden etc. does have a feature that will automatically transcode the image sequence to a single file. Or you could set up a watch folder.