AfterCodecs is a new native exporter for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro and Media Encoder CC 2014
to CC 2019 (included) on Windows 7 / 8 / 10 and Mac OSX 10.10+, bringing you ProRes, H264, H265 & HAP
codecs for excellent quality and lightweight videos files.
Installation on Windows
Please skip step 1 with the given Installer .exe :
1. Copy the Autokroma AfterCodecs folder you can find inside Manual Installation AfterCodecs into this
folder : C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore\
2. Now you have to license the plugins. On After Effects : open it up by going into the "Composition" top menu
and clicking "AfterCodecs Settings" (see screenshot) :
You can copy paste your AfterCodecs license(s) there and press "Activate". In fact you can copy paste here
any Autokroma license you have ! On OSX you cannot Paste with COMMAND+V so you can use the new
"Paste Clipboard" button or right-click -> Paste.
On PPro / AME you need to go into the export UI and select "AfterCodecs" and click the "Open AfterCodecs
Settings" button in the "Video" tab of all params in order to open this UI.
Et voilà ! You can now export new formats in your AE / AME render queues and in PPro "Export Media" UI.
Good to know :
The logging feature enable power users to read AfterCodecs render logs. On AE : If you have both video and audio,
temporary files will be written (suffixed .video.mov and .audio.wav) and there is an additional muxing step at the end
of the render. Please bear in mind that After Effects will prevent you from overwriting the final output file, but not
temporary ones. You can even stop the render at any time and the temporary rendered files will be fine, storing what
has been currently rendered. On PPro / AME : If you have audio, a temporary WAV file will be written (suffixed
.audio.wav).
PPro / AME : Extensions
If you don't know what extension (container) to use, select .MOV as it will work great in general. It comes from
Quicktime but it's completely independent from it : you don't need Quicktime Player to read the .MOV container !
VLC Media Player for example can read ProRes 422 just fine. It all depends on the video and audio codecs inside
the file.
Tick the EXT checkbox to save up time if you are doing huge renders (multi gigabytes) or if you want to remove the
"File already exists. Do you want to replace it." overwriting confirmation popup. This option is not compatible with
having post render actions such as automatic uploading to the web. The reason this option exists is that on huge
files, PPro and AME will spend a good amount of time to parse the file for unknown reasons.
PPro / AME : Match Source + Preset
Don't forget to press the "Match Source" button in order to conform Resolution, Framerate and Pixel Aspect Ratio
to the source (the button will automatically tick the checkboxes at the right). If you record any preset also press the
Match Source button before so that you are sure you are not saving thoses parameters in the preset.
Support and feedback
For any issue / feedback / feature idea, please contact us on aescripts + aeplugins by opening up a ticket,
providing a logging file and telling us your host software (AE / PPro / AME) .
Thank you for purchasing and using AfterCodecs !
