How To Render Mp4 After Effects

This means MP4 is used primarily as a video container format when you are finished with your final product and After Effects isn’t a software for delivering finished products. Instead After Effects is a software you use in the middle of the video creation process.

Have some MP4 files downloaded from online video streaming sites or transferred from device recorders and wish to load the MP4 video into After Effects for some post editing workflow but encounter format unsupported issue just as the conditions listed below:

“I have .mp4 files that I want to edit using After Effects but not able to do so since it give error, file format not supported, how do I overcome this issue?”

• Learn how how to save After Effects as mp4 video format.In this video tutorial we will show you how to save After Effects as mp4.Create a new composition.
• Adobe After Effects is one of the prime software to enhance videos with stunning motion graphics and visual effects. It used to allow people to export their finished projects directly as MP4 for sharing on YouTube and the like. Now it needs you to resort to Adobe Media Encoder to encode the project as MP4.

Why MP4 file not playing in After Effects CC?

After Searching for After Effects CC supported file formats, we get the information that After Effects only load MP4 files compressed with MPEG-4 compression codec. However, it is well known that MP4 is a multimedia container file format, it can be encoded with various different video and audio codec. It’s very likely that the MP4 files will be encoded with After Effects not readable video codec such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.265/HEVC, VC-1/WMV, etc or audio codec like AC3, DTS, DTS-HD, etc. Fortunately, you can easily fix the codec incompatible issue with the following 2 solutions.

Solution 1: Ingest and transcode MP4 to After Effects with Adobe Media Encoder CC
Solution 2: Convert MP4 for After Effects CC with Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac

Solution 1: Ingest and transcode MP4 to After Effects with Adobe Media Encoder CC

Adobe Media Encoder CC is a powerful media management tool allows you to work with media in a unified way across applications. It has tight integration with Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, and other applications provides a seamless media processing workflow. You can following the steps in the video guide below to render MP4 in After Effects CC using Adobe Media Encoder CC:

Solution 2: Convert MP4 for After Effects CC with Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac

If above listed solutions can fix the codec incompatible issue or you are looking for a more simple way to get the problem solved. Here, we highly recommend you to convert unsupported MP4 for After Effects CC with our powerful Mac HD Video Conversion tool – Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac. The program can powerfully and comprehensively convert all MP4 video encoded with incompatible video or audio codec listed above to After Effects CC editable MPEG-4 video codec or AAC audio codec. To get better output video and audio quality, you can flexibly adjust output profile parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like to let them fit with After Effects CC. For those people who have no idea how to tweak these setting on your own, you can use the program to directly output After Effects CC specially optimized MPEG-2 editing codec, you can then directly import the generated files into After Effects CC with the optimal profile settings.

Besides MP4, you can use the program to convert other unsupported video such as AVI, WMV, MKV, MXF, FLV, MTS, XAVC, XVAC S, etc to After Effects supported or specially optimized editing formats.

Edit MP4 with built-in video editor

Do not want to move the whole MP4 video into After Effects CC for post editing, never mind, you can use the program built-in “Trim” function to cut off unwanted parts to leave only your unwanted parts. The video is captured with wrong orientation, never mind, you can change the video to the right orientation with the flip or rotate function. In addition, you can also add downloaded SRT/ASS/SSA subtitle to video to stylize your editing footage.

With Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac, you can complete the whole format conversion process with just few clicks thanks to its friendly and easy to navigate interface. In addition, the conversion results produced by the program is pretty high quality, you can’t find any difference between the generated files and the original source video. What’s more, the program is very stable, you can hardly encounter any sudden crashes during the whole conversion process.

Step by Step to Convert MP4 for After Effects CC with Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac

Step 1: Add unsupported MP4 files into the program.

Run the program on your computer and click “File” > “Add Video/Audio” or “Add from folder” to add unsupported MP4 files into the program.

Step 2: Choose output file format.

Click “Format” drop-down bar, from its extended list, select one of After Effects CC compatible editing formats such as “MPEG-4 HD Video(*.mp4)” under “HD Video” main category.

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Tips: Click “Settings” on the main interface to open “Profile Settings” window, here, you can flexibly choose or specify exactly the parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like to get better output video and audio quality.

You can also select to directly output After Effects CC specially optimized “MPEG-2(*.mpg)” under “Adobe Premiere/Sony..” main category.

Step 3: Edit MP4 files.

Select an item on the main interface to activate the “Video Editor” function, in the opened “Video Editor” window, you can play and preview the original video and output effects. Also you can flip or rotate video angel, trim video length or add external subtitle to video, you can also do other simple editing task according to your own needs.

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Step 4: Begin the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit right-bottom “Convert” button to begin the MP4 video to After Effects CC supported editing formats conversion process.

After the conversion, you can click Open output folder to popup output a folder with the converted files. Then feel free to import MP4 to After Effects CC for smooth post video editing workflow.

In speaking of After Effects we all know that it is a digital motion graphics, visual effects and compositing app used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. However, users find that it is difficult for them to import all MP4 videos to After Effects CS5/CS6/CC for further editing. In this article, we will discuss deeply on this issue.

Adobe claims that After Effects support MP4 importing. But the problem with MP4 is, when you plan to edit MP4 file with After Effects (including After Effects CS5/CS6/CC), you may be unable to do this. There're some frequently asked questions quoted as below.

Q1: How to import MP4 into After Effects

I recently got a gopro hero 3 and wanted to slow a 960p 50fps video down in AE but i cannot open it. it just keeps saying it's of an unsopported format. How do I fix this?

Q2: AE won't import mp4 files anymore

Hi there, A client send me some mp4 files for a project. If I import those mp4 files in cs4 they are just black. If I play it with quicktime or media player its all fine. Whats wrong with my cs5? Before I had no problems with mp4 files.

In fact, MP4 codec is a final delivery codec it is not one you want to use for editing. Thus, there are many video, audio codec problems while importing MP4 video into After Effects for editing. Plus, even the Adobe program can ingest your MP4 files directly, it takes a long time for rendering. To get your MP4 into After Effects CS5/CS6/CC to play nicely, the quick workaround is to convert MP4 file to After Effects supported MPEG-2 encoded MPG (the most compatible video format for AE) file format and then transfer the converted MP4 videos to After Effects for editing.

How Do I Render My Edit Into Mp4 After Effects

And then a 3rd party software is needed. Personally, I have used iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, and it's a very affordable, fast, easy to use one software. It can help me convert all my MP4 files to AE compatible format, make MP4 footage working well in After Effects CS5/CS6/CC. In addition, this program can support various common videos besides MP4, such as MOV, MKV, AVI , MTS , MXF, WMV, etc. Here is how t do it.
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Steps of converting MP4 to After Effects supported file formats

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1. Load MP4 files to the program

Launch the program, and open the folder where you have saved the MP4 files, and then directly drag the files to the program interface, the files will be loaded to the program immediately. Alternatively, you can click 'Add video' button to import the MP4 videos to the program.

2. Select the output format

Click 'Format' bar and choose 'Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MPEG-2 (*.mpg)' as output format on the drop-down menu. It is also suitable for editing in Premiere Pro.

Tip: Click the Settings icon to adjust video and audio parameters on the Profile Setting as you need to get the best quality video.

3. Start MP4 to AE conversion

Mp4 Codec After Effects

Hit the 'Start conversion' button at the bottom right corner, let this smart Video Converter to do the rest for you! If you have added quite a bunch of video files, it would take some time to convert. In such case, you can click Option and tick the box 'Shut down the computer after conversion'. When the conversion is finished, you can click 'Open' button to get the generated MPG files effortlessly. Launch AE on your PC, choose 'File > Import' to get converted MPG files into After Effects CS5/CS6/CC for further editing beautifully. Now using your After Effects to edit MP4 is so easy!

This tutorial is based on Mac OS X. If you are a Windows user, please try this MP4 to After Effects Converter.

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