H.264 Output from After Effects

[Christian Belzer]

Hi there!

I´ve seen a lot of H264 encoded Videos in this forum with excellent quality. Right now I´m not happy with my output from After Effects using H264 presets. So I output uncompressed 2k and convert it via Sorenson Squeeze or Quicktime Pro to H264. But actually I´m looking for a way for straight output from AE

What output ways for H264 do you use? Thanks for sharing!

 

[Troy Smith]

From my experience nothing beats compressor on the mac side, I wish adobe had there h264 down, but they don't, unless im missig somthing.

 

[Christian Belzer]

Well, Adobe offers a set of h264 presets for mobile devices and another one for bluray. Also there is a h264 output within quicktime, which produves a gamma shift.
All the presets are okay, but you don`t have real control over the export. There are so few options - really sucks! For example: you can´t even determine how many times it should walk through the material. So the output isn´t the quality one is looking for.
Maybe there is going to be a plugin or an update I´m missing. Annoying since the master collection didn´t come too cheap...

 

[Jim Hoffman]

This is something I was trying to find at NAB - good info on any new compression updates . The folks I spoke to at Adobe didn't seem too interested in the compression aspects of the program when we talked. But I realize I don't know enough about all this yet.