QuickTime compression settings. MPEG-4 not available. Why?

[thingie]

Hi, sorry if this sounds like a silly noobie question, but it is puzzling me.

My colleague compressed an animation we did as a quicktime movie, and in the output module settings, he told me he selected MPEG-4 as the compression option.

I looked on my own compression drop down list in the "compression settings" window and did not see MPEG-4 listed as an option, yet he says he has that option available for his install of After Effects 6.0. (I am also using 6.0) All of my quicktime software for my quicktime player is up to date and includes MPEG-4, yet that option is still not available to me as a compression for rendering as a quicktime movie! What do I need to do to remedy this? Do I need to install some sort of after effects plug in that will add this compression option for me?

I also posted in the adobe online forum, but nobody has answered it yet, so I thought I would try elsewhere too.

 

[maruyama]

MPEG4 is used for offline resolution video in Premiere.

Because Premiere was discontinued on the Mac - MPEG4 was never introduced on the Mac side, only on the PC side.

That said, you're not really losing anything by not having it directly within After Effects. You're actually better off.

Even in the PC version, the default compression that AE throws on (PC version) is not as good as if you used a third party compressor (Mac or PC) on Animation Codec footage.

You can export MPEG4 from QuickTime Pro. It still looks terrible, but you can do it.

I would suggest Sorenson before MPEG4.



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