Re: AAC Codec for AE CS3

i wouldn't worry about aac in ae if you need h.246 or mpeg-4. to get to those later video codecs you'll want to use a compression utility that will do multipass encoding.

streamclip (free & multi-platform) will do mpeg-4 (it may do h.264 too). adobe media encoder should also do one, if not both of those, too. you'll have to see if aac is an option for audio within the compression utility.

so your process should be render from ae at as high of quality as possible. then take that to a compression utility to get the size/data rate down for streaming.

Kevin Camp
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