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After Effects CC 2014 (13.0) does not include exporters for creating H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV videos directly from the render queue. To create videos in these formats, you should use Adobe Media Encoder.
You can still import videos in these formats into After Effects.
How do you create H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV videos using Adobe Media Encoder with After Effects?You have two primary options for using Adobe Media Encoder with After Effects to create videos in H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV formats:
- Render and export a losslessly encoded master file out of After Effects to a watch folder monitored by Adobe Media Encoder.
- Send the composition directly to Adobe Media Encoder from After Effects (Composition > Add To Adobe Media Encoder Queue).
Here’s some more detail about these options, including pros and cons of each:
The fastest way to create videos in these formats using Adobe Media Encoder with After Effects is to use the After Effects render queue to export a losslessly encoded master file (e.g., using the PNG video codec in a QuickTime .mov container file) to a watch folder that Adobe Media Encoder monitors. You can assign encoding presets to a watch folder in Adobe Media Encoder so that it automatically encodes using whichever settings you have specified. One advantage of using this method is that it uses After Effects performance features for rendering (such as GPU acceleration and multiprocessing where applicable) and Adobe Media Encoder performance features for encoding (such as parallel encoding). The disadvantage of using this method is that it occupies the main After Effects application for the entire rendering operation, during which time you can’t use After Effects for anything else.
Another method to create videos in these formats using Adobe Media Encoder with After Effects is to directly add the composition from After Effects to the Adobe Media Encoder queue. This method has the advantage of allowing you to continue working in After Effects while the rendering and encoding takes place, since the rendering is performed by a background instance of After Effects. The rendering phase may be slower in some cases, compared with using the After Effects render queue, because the headless version of After Effects rendering in the background does not have access to GPU acceleration and multiprocessing features.
Media Encoder. Rock solid rendering. Ingest, transcode, create proxies, and output to almost any format you can imagine. This powerful tool allows you to work with media in a unified way across applications. Tight integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other applications provides a seamless workflow. Adobe Media Encoder is part of this video editing suite and is responsible for encoding video files to the proper format to ensure they play on different devices videos are watched on today. This tutorial will show you how quickly and easily you can convert your videos using Adobe Media Encoder.
Why were these exporters removed from the After Effects render queue?The reason that we removed the H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV exporters from the After Effects render queue is simple: Maintaining these exporters in After Effects took quite a lot of work, and fixing several significant bugs in these exporters would take even more work. We could have done this work, but it would have subtracted a lot from the resources that we had available to develop other features and fix other bugs. Since Adobe Media Encoder already had superior H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV exporting capabilities, it was more prudent to rely on Adobe Media Encoder for export of these formats. This allowed the After Effects team to focus our efforts on animation, motion graphics, compositing, and digital imaging features—our core areas.
One thing that makes Adobe Media Encoder so much better than After Effects for creation of files in final delivery formats is its Preset Browser and easy-to-use system for creating, saving, sharing, and applying encoding presets. Another is the assortment of features in the Effects tab with which you can automatically add watermarks, timecode overlays, et cetera.
What if I still need to create these kinds of videos from the After Effects render queue?If you still need to be able to create videos in these formats from the After Effects render queue for some reason, you can still do so by leaving After Effects CC (12.2.1) installed alongside After Effects CC 2014 (13.0) and using the previous version for these specific output tasks.
What’s next?We intend to continue working closely with the Adobe Media Encoder team to make the workflow between After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder better. Please, don’t hesitate to send in feature requests and bug reports to tell us what we need to improve in this area.
For a complete list of what’s new and changed in After Effects CC 2014 (13.0), see this page.
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Recently, I was asked to present to a group of people via Adobe Connect, but I was not available to present live. I thought I would do a screen recording and then post it to my Connect room. While I could have done it all in one shot by using Adobe Captivate Full Motion Recording (FMR) mode and then letting Captivate upload the recording directly to my Connect room, I wanted to learn how to use a pre-recorded video in Connect.
I used ScreenFlow to record my presentation. I did this because it let me capture my screen and my built-in web cam at the same time, and then edit the recording very quickly without encoding. Encoding happens after I edit the recording, which can be a time saver when I want the job done really fast. If I want more robust editing, I of course send the unedited encoded recording over to Premiere and edit it there. For most of what I do, though, ScreenFlow does a great job when I don’t want to use Captivate. Regardless, from here on out, I assume that there is some video that I want to use in Connect.
Connect can only display two video file formats: FLV and F4V. These are the two Flash video formats, and they use the On2 VP6 and H.264 encodings, respectively. Since our objective here is to get the video to play on Adobe Connect Mobile (browse for it in iTunes, Android Marketplace and BlackBerry AppWorld), let’s focus on FLV, since I know it works.
When encoding for mobile, you need to think of how your client will connect to the Connect server. It might be through a 3G connection, which isn’t lightning fast, and often will be less than 1.4 megabits per second, depending on where you are. Here in NY City, for instance, the connections are often as slow as 500 mbits per second. You must therefore encode your video with the slowest connection in mind. We’ll get to this when we look at bandwidth.
Remember that I already have a recording that I saved from my screen capture software. In my case, I exported it from ScreenFlow using their lossless setting. I did not use their Export to Flash option, as it makes an F4V file using the H.264 encoding method.
Export Settings from ScreenFlow
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However you capture your video, you want the highest quality file you can get, since we’re going to compress hit pretty hard in the Media Encoder.
Now that we have our file, let’s send it to the Adobe Media Encoder (AME). Adobe Media Encoder comes with Acrobat Pro and with the Creative Suites. It also ships with other point products such as Flash and Flash Builder. You will need Media Encoder in order to encode the video for Connect. I am using Media Encoder CS5.5, which is different from Media Encoder CS5. If you would like a deeper dive into how to use AME, visit this page on the Adobe Developer Connection.
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To use AME, launch it and then drag your video into the queue at the top of the screen. Once there, you can adjust the encoding settings by clicking the hyperlink under Format and choose FLV.
You will see many options here including H.264 and F4V. This may seem confusing, since codec is not the same as file format. An F4V and MOV file may both be encoded using H.264 codec, for instance. Remember, we need On2 VP6 for our video, so choose FLV and that will automatically choose the On2 VP6 codec.
Here are some tips to help make the video successful.
- Choose CBR, which means Constant Bit Rate.
- Set the bit rate to anticipate your slowest connections. I set mine at 800 kbps, but you can adjust for your bandwidth expectations. To be safe, assume slower connections and you won’t have stuttering due to latency issues.
- Two pass encoding will take longer but the result will be better.
- Reduce the frame rate to an even factor of your initial frame rate. My original video had a frame rate of 30 fps. I reduced it to 10. If you have 24 fps, you might want to reduce it to 12 or 8.
- Reduce the frame size to match your clients. In a perfect world, I would have reduced my screen resolution to something like 1280 x 800 for the recording, but I can’t count on that all the time. Connect will scale the video to fit your client’s frame, but it’s best to be close to the size of the player window.
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I have attached a copy of my Media Encoder Preset file. To load it, download the file from my Acrobat.com workspace by clicking the link. Then, when you have opened the encoding settings dialog, click the little folder icon next to the settings drop down menu and browse to Connect.epr, which is the file you downloaded from Acrobat.com.
Import AME Settings for Connect
Once you have loaded the setting, you can adjust the settings if needed. Once you’ve finished your tweaking, you can save the preset for use later by clicking the little floppy disk icon to the right of the Preset drop down menu. If you want to share your preset with others, then Option-click (Mac) or Alt-click (Windows) the floppy disk icon and you will be able to save the preset to wherever you choose.
Once you have applied your settings, then you can close the dialog and click the “Play” button in the upper right hand corner of the AME window. This will force the encoder to begin encoding your video for Connect. Depending on length, your encoding time will vary. Mine was 20 minutes of HD video and it took about a half hour to encode on my laptop with the settings in this post.
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Once encoded, you can share it from any share pod in the connect room by either uploading it into your Content area of your Connect account or by browsing for the video from a Share pod in the Connect room. Click the triangle next to Share My Screen in any Share pod and choose Share Document from the dropdown menu. If you have put it into the Content area of your Connect account, it will be available in My Content. If you want to share it from your computer, then choose Browse My Computer… and browse for the video. After it uploads, you will be able to play it when you need it in your presentation. More importantly, both your desktop and your mobile viewers will be able to enjoy your video.