

Up until a few After Effects Versions ago, After Effects was perfectly capable of natively saving your Video as an MP4.īut Adobe got rid of the feature in After Effects CC, as it was too “difficult” to maintain across multiple applications.įor the user’s sake, they wanted everyone to export their projects to yet another application that would then render everything in the desired format – MP4.

Then, why is it so difficult to output an MP4 from one of the most popular Video, Motion Design, Compositing Applications on this planet: After Effects? Why Can’t You directly Export an MP4 From After Effects? Smartphones, Video Recorders, they all run & record MP4 Videos all day long, and Videos that you see on the Web, as in youtube videos or embedded into websites, are MP4, most likely, as well. MP4 is a container format for packaging Video and Audio together and it is one of the most popular media file formats today.
