[HAP Codec with AfterCodecs - Poor results]

On 7/6/2018 at 2:18 AM, Vollmers said:

Hi -  I always use HAP, and with excellent result. But I always render out from After Effects.Why? It gives me a better control of the end result. I still believe you can render out to HAP, directly from AE, but I forgot to renew my license ? so I can't check at the moment.

Best regards Christian

Hi Christian,  Looks like it's time to brush up on what Adobe are up to with their latest updates... ? 

[HAP Codec with AfterCodecs - Poor results]

On 7/6/2018 at 9:09 PM, Alex Ramos said:

Not really the answer you looking for.

I'm using ffmpeg to encode HAP and MPEG2.

Its free, quality is good, its supper fast and best of all I have it on the file contextual menu from windows, just a right click on the file to encode.

Hi Alex, I now believe that 'AfterCodecs' plug-in uses ffmpeg as it's back end encoder which is interesting. Have you ever had the chance to test the difference in quality compared to HAP renders direct from After Effects or Media Encoder?  That's where we are seeing an issue.

[HAP Codec with AfterCodecs - Poor results]

HI all,

We have recently been through the misery of having the HAP codec family removed from the Adobe suite and started to use the third party plugin AfterCodecs for our HAP renders. We noticed a drop in quality from what we are normally used to with the HAP family. We did a few tests and rolled back a version of Media Encoder that still supported HAP and found that we got much better quality file that what was produced from AfterCodecs from the same source file. Is anyone else using AfterCodecs and if so is anyone seeing this? 

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