AEmpeg

Render with FFmpeg directly from After Effects. Get many more codecs than After Effects offers you, for example ProRes on Windows!

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No Longer Available

Description

For users with highres screens: check the latest update: https://youtu.be/DttQNqrIaUA

Have you ever wanted to render with any of the many codecs ffmpeg offers?
Have you searched trough the whole internet after a way to render ProRes directly from After Effects on a Windows System?

Then this is the tool you have been wishing for!

You no longer need to put your time into learning and trying out different commandlines or after your render is done, load the videos into a second software to ones again set everything up and render again. Just launch it, select your output path, press render and you're done!

Features

  • Render with ffmpeg - Just pick your output path and settings and press render. It's that simple!
  • Works on both Windows and Mac - True cross-platform experience!
  • Save time! - You no longer need to fiddle around with commandlines or external softwares to get the files you want! Do it all quick and easy from one place!
  • Use it to create proxys - Save the original file and use the AEmpeg one as a small and quick proxy.
  • Advanced features:
    • Scaling - Scale your comp to any size you want.
    • Subtitle - Burn subtitles onto your video. Simply select the file and AEmpeg will take care of the rest.
    • Muxing - Oh wonderful muxing. Muxing is when you merge a videofile and an audio file together to one simple file. Perfect to make sure your render is done correctly and doesn't need re-rendering thoes heavy VFX shots. Select the audiofile or use the comps audio, render to an imagesequence and if everything goes correct AEmpeg will merge them together!
  • Shut down computer when done - Well, save power, save the planet!
  • Convert already existing videos and image sequences - Just select videofiles from your project panel and add them!
  • Create your own ffmpeg-presets - If you know ffmpeg from before you can easily create your own templates to use within the script. You can also share and import already created presets.
  • Detailed help page - Feeling lost? Just press the "?" button and you'll get the detailed help page with all information you might want to know!

AEmpeg 1.1

AEmpeg Tutorial

What is FFmpeg?

FFmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter.

FFmpeg contains more than 100 codecs and is used in the majority of media networks like Youtube, Vimeo and Facebook to convert your uploaded videos, images and audio.

Discussions

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Version History

1.2.8 -

Apr 19, 2020

Bugfixes:

* Fixed licensing error on macOS Catalina

1.2.7 -

May 20, 2017

Bugfixes:

* Fix wrong alpha bits for ProRes 4444

1.2.6 -

May 16, 2017

Features:

- If downloading of FFmpeg fails you will now be promped with a tutorial on how to install it manualy



Bugfixes:

- Updated licensing-framework

- Fixed problem where preset name existed within another preset

1.2.5 -

Nov 8, 2016

- Fixed linking to FFmpeg

- CC 2017 Compatible

1.2.4 -

Jan 24, 2016

Code Cleanup and bugfixes:

- Fixed renderbutton problem, should now work 100% for everyone

1.2.3 -

Nov 18, 2015

Bugfixes:

- Fixes "Error: Invalid image" data for new users

1.2.2 -

Aug 13, 2015

Features:

- Highres Screen-fix (http://youtu.be/DttQNqrIaUA)

1.2.1 -

Aug 8, 2015

Bugfixes:

- Codeclist automaticly got reseted on startup

- Small UI errors

1.2 -

Jul 28, 2015

Features:

- Optimized for CC 2015

- You can now pick to use the output-name or the compositions name for the FFmpeg file.

- Button to fetch name from selected comp to imagesequnece-subfolder.

- If names colides, aempeg no longer asks to rename, it just adds _org to the original file.

- Change _temp to _org.

Bugfixes:

- Random no-launch

- Error on line 1 "["

- Optimized code

- Random small bugs

1.1.2 -

Mar 19, 2015

Bugfixes:

- Muxing bug

- Subtitle bug

- Some small things

1.1.1 -

Feb 28, 2015

Features:

- updated FFmpeg

Bugfixes:

- Renderbutton not working for some

- Empty renderqueue saving bug

- Dealing with imagesequence with more/less than 5 numbers in the sequence

- Subtitle bug

- Many small things

1.1 -

Dec 31, 2014

Added codecs:

- WMV

- Theora (OGV).

Added new features:

- Scaling

- Subtitles

- Muxing

Bugfixes...

1.0.3 -

Oct 29, 2014

- Fixed random setFG generated.

- Fixed render button not always working.

- Script no longer render if item is Done.

- Better save dialog on windows.

- Fixed licensing problems.

1.0.2 -

Oct 20, 2014

Bugfixes:

- Fixed error preventing script from launching

1.0.1 -

Oct 20, 2014

Bugfixes:

- Error when having to many saved items in render queue

- UI pushed out from half the window

- Edit-page not loading correct info

- Some already rendered items renders again with FFmpeg

Changes:

- h265 removed due to ffmpeg errors

- h264 added

- wmv added

- codec list updated

1.0 -

Oct 9, 2014

First release of the script!

Compatibility

After Effects

CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5

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