There are so much better alternatives you wouldn't even believe it. Stopped working with the Adobe suite as soon as possible.

You know what I should have done earlier?

It's a dead format.Ģx 'it should', 2x 'you should', bravo certified MVP! Many of those answers are on this forum and they are all the same. Just use the presets that match your intended audience and then study up on video formats and compression.īTW, this question has been asked and answered hundreds of times. You should be using the Adobe Media Encoder to render h.264 MP4 files and unless you have expert skills and a thorough knowledge of video formats and compression you should never see the words Custom in a composition setting or a render setting. It should have been removed a long time ago. Apple never did a good job supporting h.264 in a QT container, it was buggy and unreliable, and they are not doing any further development. H.264 files should be in an MP4 container. mov and it will playback in the QT player just fine. If you really need QT movie that is encoded as h.264 then just change the extension to. Even when you could render h.264 QT's using the Render Cue, I never did and no one that I know that works in the film business professionally did either because the quality just was not there. Looking at more than one frame at a time is the foundation of MPEG compression. The Adobe Media Encoder does a better job encoding h.264 files by far than the Render Cue - Output module path is every capable of because the AME can look at more than one frame at a time and the Output Module cannot. If your files work on your system then you are lucky. I did not decide to stop supporting h.264 in a QT container, Apple did, because it was unreliable and unpredictable. Suprise, it will playback just fine on any media player because the MPEG is exactly the same. Take your QT h.264 files and just change the extension to MP4. Why would you want to render and deliver a product that will not work at all with the next release of the OS? It makes about as much sense as opening up a video store that only rents VHS tapes.īrandon. MP4 is universally accepted as the standard for playback on multiple devices.

The point is that it never worked as it should have so Apple dumped it.

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