Comments on: The Hive’s AE Quicktips #1

By: many-2

many-2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:31:37 +0000

also, if you want more information about the required “Levels” and “Profiles” for proper H264 encoding, you can refer to the H264 article on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264

By: many-2

many-2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:28:12 +0000

In fact, the H264 output module (without quicktime) works very well at all resolutions, not just SD like PAL and NTSC. For it to work, you’ve got to set the proper flags, much like with mpeg2.

settings to change to export a fullHD (1920×1080) movie in H264

pixel aspect ratio : set to square pixels

profile : set to “High Profile” (which is the typical profile for blu-ray)

level : set to 4 or higher

IMPORTANT NOTE : When you set the “Level” parameter watch for the frame rate parameter as it usually gets reset to a value of 59.94 if, for example, you set Level to a value of 4. You can change it back to 29.97 (or anything else you might need). Failure to do so will bring an error message.

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:24:57 +0000

Just thinking, you might also use the quicktime module from File|Export…. there’s more settings available there than in the render queue (audio compression, hinting etc.)

By: Doru

Doru — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:50:07 +0000

yeap, thank you for the tip, I already know that , unfortunetlly I learned the hard way: I got that error message when I tried to export to h264. Then I installed quicktime and it worked. Problem is you have to own quicktime so its like paying twice for the same h264 codec . Now I still don’t know why i can’t export directly to h264. Now ok quicktime its usefull for other things to so do not kill me.

By: Aharon Rabinowitz

Aharon Rabinowitz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:38:45 +0000

Nice job – a tutorial that will help a lot of people who need to go to H.264. Of course, I’ll always recommend you render out uncompressed and then compress in Apple Compressor or Sorenson Squeeze. But a lot of people don’t have that option or the drive space.

Keep up the good work, man! Hope to see more from you soon.