AfterCodecs

Support for After Effects, Premiere and Media Encoder 2027 / v27.0 BETA released recently in Adobe Creative Cloud

macOS After Effects : opening AEfx .aep project from Finder was sometimes producing the annoying popup "The document X.aep could not be opened. After Effects cannot open files in the After Effects Project format" instead of opening your project file, until AEfx was restarted, now solved in this version. Others plugins loaded by Adobe could also impact this behavior. This might solve discussion on those forums : https://community.adobe.com/questions-529/after-effects-cannot-open-files-in-the-after-effects-project-format-39556 https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/quot-after-effects-cannot-open-files-in-the-after-effects-project-format-quot/m-p/11836476 https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/problems-with-opening-a-aep-file-for-after-effects-2022-on-mac/td-p/12999714 https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/after-effects-cannot-open-files-in-the-after-effects-project-format/

Popup was sometimes waiting a long time before it could be closed, now fixed

Trial message : improved .txt message written when you are encoding in Trial mode with better explanation as to which license you need to activate to unlock AfterCodecs. This message is also shown as a popup in After Effects, in Premiere Pro console and in Media Encoder logs

Support for After Effects, Premiere and Media Encoder 2026 / v26 released recently in Adobe Creative Cloud

Support licensing for our new PlumePack V3 Project Manager for Premiere : Trim and Transcode your footage, Advanced Toolbox features, Filter, Queue, Presets and much more ! Read more and install PlumePack V3 FREE from our website https://www.autokroma.com/blog/PlumePack-3-0

macOS bug fix : support for files with advanced emojis / unicode characters in their filename or filepath, it was stopping the exports before with error code 1

Windows Popup : the User Guide is better rendered now, using Edge Chromium WebView2 when available. You can download and install it from the bottom of this official Microsoft page https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/

macOS :

Bug fix : the Settings and License popup was opening the User Guide on Autokroma.com after a technical update of our website

Windows : Installers, Desktop and plugins are now all signed again with our official certificate (they were not signed since version 1.11.2), which should reduce chances Anti-Virus software detect AfterCodecs as a malware, which would be a False Positive. Please report to us any problem encountered by your Anti-Virus !

macOS :

Support for After Effects, Premiere Pro and Media Encoder 2025 / v25 (BETA was released last August on Adobe Creative Cloud)

Plugin loading issue : if you had an old version of AfterCodecs installed and can't load AfterCodecs in newer After Effects versions (for example this new 2025 version), please try to delete AEfx Preferences and Plugins Cache by going in our Uninstaller and ticking the appropriate checkbox, then relaunch After Effects. For Premiere Pro you can press SHIFT while launching it and you will have an official checkbox to flush the plugin cache easily

MultiRender PrPro / AME : sometimes export was cancelled and showing a red error popup, now fixed

Settings and License popup will now also show you BRAW Studio V3 licenses

After Effects : error popup message removed ".log file couldn't be removed (error 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process)"

Hap : "Alpha" in the metadata of the exported files was missing when exporting "Hap Alpha" and "Hap Q Alpha" codecs, now fixed. This metadata can be seen in Premiere Pro's Project Panel with the "Video Codec" column, or for example in ffmpeg inside the Video Stream's "encoder" Metadata

macOS : minimum version supported is now 10.14 (macOS Mojave)

Support for After Effects, Premiere Pro and Media Encoder 2024 / v24

MultiRender Panel PrPro : New automatic correction of the ins / outs of the added Markers, to work around a limitation of Adobe Premiere Pro Scripting API. This modification is only achieved when the added markers are detected as wrong

MultiRender Markers : Newlines / carriage returns in the Comments field will now be replaced by spaces to create the suffix for the output filename, previously they were replaced by a '?' character

macOS encoding bug fix

Windows :

MultiRender PrPro Panel : Adding markers stopped every time it encountered an item that did not come from a Project Item (for example an Adjustment Layer or a Motion Graphics Template), now fixed

Fixed on macOS : "AfterCodecs is damaged and can't be opened" popup when trying to launch Settings and License application

Support for After Effects, Premiere Pro and Media Encoder 2023 / v23

After Effects : When you are still running the Trial (Unlicensed AfterCodecs) a 500 frames Trial warning will warn you at the end of the render queue

After Effects : sometimes the AfterCodecs Encoding popup couldn't be launched, now fixed

MultiRender PrPro / AME : bug fix for v1.10.9 feature (correct timecode from the Sequence now)

MultiRender PrPro / AME : exported files have the correct timecode from the Sequence now

Fixed a crash happening when closing Premiere Pro and Media Encoder applications, it was leading Adobe to ask you to send a bug report

macOS : Full support for Apple silicon in After Effects 2022 v22.1 BETA. The encoding was already done in Apple silicon since v1.10.6 even when running in Intel mode, but now you can launch AEfx in Apple silicon mode and AfterCodecs will be properly loaded. More info here https://www.autokroma.com/blog/Apple-Silicon-ARM-M1-Compatibility-with-Adobe-Creative-Cloud-Autokroma

Premiere Pro MultiRender : now a new checkbox to enable only exporting Uniquely named markers, to ensure you are not going to export duplicated parts of your timeline (there is an Adobe bug that creates hidden duplicated markers sometimes). A new button in the PrPro Panel "Show Unique MultiRender Markers" will enable you to preview those markers to double check before exporting

Added support for Influx licensing in our Settings and License popup. Influx Importer for Adobe will allow you to import various new formats and codecs into Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder (for example .MKV .FLAC etc.), more info here : https://www.autokroma.com/Influx

macOS : full support for Apple silicon (for example the M1 CPU), including aescripts + aeplugins licensing and ffkroma v4.4 encoding running natively in Apple silicon

macOS : initial support for Apple silicon (for example the M1 CPU), full support will come later. For now without aescripts + aeplugins licensing. If you have such a license please read our article to know how to launch AfterCodecs back in Intel mode and unlock the full version : https://www.autokroma.com/blog/Apple-Silicon-ARM-M1-Compatibility-with-Adobe-Creative-Cloud-Autokroma

Our new plugin Influx Importer for Adobe CC is in BETA ! It will allow you to import all kinds of new files, formats, containers and codecs directly into Premiere Pro, Media Encoder and After Effects for both Windows and macOS (for example there is support for the .MKV container). Test it right now : https://www.autokroma.com/blog/Influx-Importer-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-After-Effects

AfterCodecs V2 is in BETA ! New features are .MKV support, audio only exports, .ext automatic extension in After Effects, new codecs will be coming later. Test it right now by downloading and installing it from here https://www.autokroma.com/blog/BETA-For-AfterCodecs-V2-Exporter-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-After-Effects/

2022 / v22.0 Support for After Effects, Premiere Pro and Media Encoder (new unified versioning)

Licensing bug fix

Windows : downloaded .zip is 12 MB lighter now, for faster downloads and updates. Our .exe installer doesn't install Visual C++ Redistributable automatically anymore, but it will detect if you need to install them, following our article about it https://www.autokroma.com/blog/VCRedist/

ffkroma / ffmpeg update version 4.4 "Rao" from April 8th 2021

After Effects : removed the taskbar icon's progress bar feature introduced in v1.8.0 as it seems not stable enough

Licensing : support for our new product PlumePack, your Best Project Manager and Media Trim Tool in Premiere Pro ! More information on our website https://www.autokroma.com/PlumePack

2021 Support : After Effects version 18 and Premiere Pro / Media Encoder version 15 Support

Premiere Pro MultiRender workaround implemented for Adobe markers bug, sometimes the duration of the export was off by one frame. With the workaround it exports the correct number of frames but you can't trust what is written in Premiere Pro markers UI : sometimes the end frame of your marker span will be wrong because this is an Adobe bug. MultiRender now automatically detects the right frame you wanted to export from the clip you selected on the timeline when you pressed the button in AfterCodecs Panel

Installer improvements : it will warn you if the MediaCore folder does not exists, will create it for you in that case. On Windows it will also warn you if you have Adobe applications running while trying to install / update plugins and Visual C++ Redistributable x64 is also automatically installed now

If AfterCodecs is in Trial Mode, it will write a .txt warning you about it in the same folder than your renders

MultiRender : AfterCodecs now avoids exporting markers that are duplicated (for example if you click multiple times on the Add Markers buttons for the same clips, you'll get duplicates)

After Effects : there is now a new checkbox in the Settings to disable AEfx taskbar icon's progress bar feature from AfterCodecs introduced in version 1.8.0

GIF bug fixes

Premiere Pro / Media Encoder :

Windows : if AfterCodecs is not loading you should install Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable x64, see our F.A.Q. https://www.autokroma.com/AfterCodecs/User_Guide/Windows__AfterCodecs_is_not_loading_or_I_get_the_vcruntime_dll_loading_error/

Bug fixes

Bug fix

MultiRender :

Licensing :

Installer ZIP doesn't include Manual Installation folder anymore, a Manual ZIP can be found on the website if needed

Installer OSX Premiere Pro Panel installation has been merged with AfterCodecs, only one checkbox now

MultiRender :

Plugins stability improvement

Licensing improvement : you can now see all Autokroma licenses in the Settings tab

After Effects OSX : you can now use multiple output module with AfterCodecs for the same render queue item, like on Windows

AfterCodecs Installer is now independent from BRAW Studio. You can still download and install BRAW Studio from https://www.autokroma.com/BRAW_Studio/Download/

Premiere Pro Panel : new "Open AfterCodecs Desktop" button to access Settings & License more easily !

After Effects : Windows crash fix

Premiere Pro : New AfterCodecs Panel to help you create, in a snap, MultiRender Markers from the selected clips on your timeline ! You can now export all your PPro sequences from one Export Window directly in Premiere Pro and Media Encoder in a few clicks. Compatibility starts from CC 2017 included

After Effects : Now AfterCodecs displays a progress bar inside After Effects icon in your taskbar on both Windows and Mac OSX. Progress will go back to zero each time an element from the render queue is finished. Behavior is the same as what PPro and AME are currently doing, but adapted for After Effects renders that uses AfterCodecs as the output format

Rare HAP empty video bug fix, happened with non multiple of 8 resolutions and high CPU cores

Crash fix

Empty video exported bug fix

Notarization for OSX 10.15 Catalina

New Uninstaller (.exe on Windows / .pkg on Mac OSX) in the "Uninstall Plugins" folder, Uninstall checkboxes from the installers were removed

Improved Uninstaller for OSX

Support for Adobe CC 2020 (Premiere Pro, Media Encoder and After Effects)

ffkroma updated to 4.2 like ffmpeg 4.2 (will automatically be updated)

OSX : New "AfterCodecs Desktop" standalone popup next to the plugins (in MediaCore/Autokroma AfterCodecs/) also available like on Windows, so you can access Global Settings & License more easily ! Shortcut will be created in your Applications

Windows : new "AfterCodecs Desktop" standalone popup next to the plugins (in MediaCore/Autokroma AfterCodecs/) so you can access Global Settings & License more easily ! Shortcut will be created on your Desktop & Programs Menu

Premiere Pro / Media Encoder : "Quick Sub Resolutions" new buttons at the bottom of Video Settings so you can quickly set Width and Height to Full 1/1, Half 1/2, Quarter 1/4 or Eighth 1/8

Now AfterCodecs will warn you with a popup when there's a new version available

Floating server : releasing license when After Effects exits bug fix

New PPro / AME MultiRender feature for your workflow : lets you batch export parts of your timeline into individual renders, according to its markers prefixed by _. We need your feedback on this!

Bug fixes : Audio bitrate now only shown for AAC and WAVE audio codec not selectable with .MP4 format

New Uninstall checkbox in the installers to easily uninstall AfterCodecs plugins

Custom AAC Bitrate available once you choose "AAC" as Audio Codec

VR180 Monoscopic, Stereoscopic Left-Right and Top-Bottom metadata added

PPro / AME :

OSX License input : pressing COMMAND key will now automatically paste the license because COMMAND+V is not working

Windows : IE won't launch anymore when using the popup offline

New "User Guide" tab on top, showing Autokroma.com information to help you using AfterCodecs !

OSX : fixed multiple screens bug

OSX : fixed 5 seconds lags when exiting popup

Licensing bug fixes and new "Paste Clipboard" button useful on OSX where COMMAND+V for Pasting the license doesn't work

OSX : when using multiple screens Settings popup would disappear, now it is shown on the primary screen

Small bug fix

Various crashes fixes and using ffkroma version 4.1-103

You can now buy AfterCodecs licenses on https://www.autokroma.com ! This version is the first one compatible

Plugins are now in the "Autokroma AfterCodecs" subfolder in MediaCore along with ffkroma automatically copied : you don't need to download it anymore in the Settings tab on OSX. Installers will also delete older versions of the plugins

H264 Low resolution color shift when re-imported into Adobe softwares fixed (in the Encoding Options popup a message will now tell you if the rendered file will be re-importable into Adobe softwares or not)

PPro / AME

Misc bug fixes

Using ffkroma 4.1-100 please update if you're not using the Windows installer

VR360 tag your renders automatically ! On PPro / AME CC 2019+ "Auto" will detect 360 / 3D footage automatically but you can also choose manually "Monoscopic", "Stereoscopic Left-Right" or "Stereoscopic Top-Bottom"

Experimental GIF encoder (extension will automatically change to .gif, cannot contain audio)

New global options :

Bugs fix :

Our new product BRAW Studio can be licensed from AfterCodecs and vice-versa

Using ffkroma 4.1-99 please update if not using the Windows installer

Using ffkroma 4.1-84 and not using ffmpeg anymore, you can delete the old ffmpeg executable if you want

All color shifts with ProRes codecs are fixed now, please update !

H264 / H265 : 8 bpc / 10 bpc, TV Range / Full Range, YUV subsampling choice (4:2:0 / 4:2:2 / 4:4:4)

H264 YouTube profile in .MP4 will render AAC audio now, please use .MOV that will generate WAVE audio so that Youtube has the best quality to re-encode after upload ;)

PPro / AME : new audio layout to render all individual mono tracks separately, reimportable in Premiere Pro ! "All Channels" layout are now called : "All : One Multi-Channel Track", "All : Individuals Mono Tracks" and "All : Individuals Stereo Tracks" for more clarity

AE : alpha channel interpretation (Straight or Premultiplied) and Matte color are now saved into files and work when reimporting into Adobe softwares

New "Open target directory at the end of each render" checkbox in Settings tab (it won't open the folder multiple times if rendering multiple times in the same folder, it will only bring the Explorer / Finder window on the foreground)

Hap codecs glitch bug fix

Memory optimization for very long renders

Updated for CC 2019

Our ffmpeg fork executable is now called ffkroma, don't forget to update if not using the Windows installer ! AfterCodecs needs at least version 4.0.2-93

HAP codecs improvement :

Warning on OSX : Adobe changed their way of interpreting AfterCodecs ProRes 422, it has now a color shift on reimport in Adobe CC 2019 (only), please use ProRes 4444

Unable to Undo (CTRL+Z) when using automatic AE RQ Comments bug fix, now this feature has its own sub menu in "Composition" top menu under "AfterCodecs Settings"

AE : new option in Settings will automatically replace all Comments section of render queue items that are AfterCodecs renders by their respective AfterCodecs params (will happen each time you click the "Composition" top menu)

ProRes 422 not limited to even width anymore

Float licensing enabled

Bugs fixes

Audio PPro / AME : added 24 bit , 32 bit (Float) and "All Channels (Grouped as Stereo)" audio layout which reimports fine in Premiere Pro as multichannel stereo ! (Experimental)

Audio on AE : added 32 bit (Float) and 8 bit

[Experimental] Interlaced ProRes / H264 / H265. In PPro / AME you should untick the last checkbox and choose something else than "None (Progressive)" (only if you have an interlaced source !). In AE it's in the Render Settings -> Field

Checkbox in settings to disable timecode metadata

Description text now on the right

AE : new menu Composition -> AfterCodecs Settings to change Settings without going into the render queue

AE in Render Mode : not showing the License popup anymore

AE : ProRes 422 Ultra enabled (was only for PPro / AME before)

H264 Fast Decode Tuning available

Timecode issue in PPro / AME fixed

Various bugs fixes

Now using ffmpeg 4.0 at least and a new ffmpeg_aftercodecs, please update ffmpeg in the Settings tab

ProRes 422 faster in After Effects, better ProRes 422 compatibility in Adobe softwares

Low screen resolution bug fix

Unable to go over 4096x4096 resolution on PPro / AME bug fix

Various bug fixes

Sound on PPro / AME : "All Channels" option available now

PPro / AME : able to export 4.0 VR and 5.1 audio

H264 / H265 : max bitrate is now 900 Mbps and minimal file size 1 Mio

Various bug fixes

After Effects : ProRes interlaced (experimental feature)

Bug fix for ProRes 422 on PP/ME CC 2018 Windows

Windows : Multiple output in parallel are now possible on AME and AE

Manual ffmpeg download button in the Settings tab

OSX Crash bug fix

End frames lost bug fix

ProRes 4444 Export in PP / AME on OSX bug fix

Media Encoder render from After Effects / Interlaced footage instead of progressive bug fix

New Audio codec choice : Auto (= previous behavior), AAC or WAVE, useful for AE RenderGarden without audio glitches

New AfterCodecs plugin for Premiere Pro and Media Encoder !

ProRes 4444 has been divided into 3 profiles : 4444 Light (unofficial profile lighter than 4444), 4444 and 4444 XQ

New "ProRes 422 Ultra" unofficial profile for Premiere Pro / Media Encoder, quality better than HQ

New H264 YouTube Upload profile, which provides a fast way to render a video for uploading to web platforms !

AE : Project Link feature is now compatible with CC 2018, and now points to the right composition in the opened project

Various bug fixes

New errors dialogs (for example with HAP codec, width must be a multiple of 4)

AE : If you try to render Alpha with ProRes 422, it won't switch automatically to ProRes 4444 now

FREE H.264 720p in Trial !

Snappy compression is enabled by default for HAP (the checkbox is here to disable it now) Beware test your software and hardware before deciding to disable Snappy. Some users report choppy playback without it !

New Setup executable for both Windows and Mac, AfterCodecs uses Autokroma folder now for configuration and storing the ffmpeg executable (not Dornisoft)

The codecs lists indicates [A] for codecs accepting alpha channel

Various bug fixes

High DPI UI fix on Windows

AfterCodecs .mov exports the timecode in non drop frame mode if the timecode is not negative ( There's an AE settings to set automatically the Drop Frame / Non Drop Frame mode when importing NTSC footage, timecode will be converted automatically !)

XMP Project Link : New experimental feature for ProRes (enable it in the Settings tab)

AfterCodecs downloads ffmpeg latest version 3.4

Crash bug fixed on Chinese Windows

A bug where trial was not enabled is fixed

AfterCodecs for After Effects is now working for Mac OSX !

WARNING :

NEW FEATURES :

BUGS FIXED : Slight color shifts in ProRes has been mostly corrected

KNOWN BUGS / LIMITATIONS :

WARNING : ProRes renders need at least ffmpeg version N-86691-gc885356 because a bug was recently fixed in it ! Just click the download button to update it

BUGS FIXED :

NEW FEATURES :

Added a bitrate mode for x264 / x264 RGB / x265

Always overwrite checkbox in Settings to remove the dialog about renaming file OR overwriting OR canceling the render

Added x264 video profiles (high, main, baseline) for old devices compatibility

Automatically ticks FFmpeg checkbox if needed after Download

New buttons in Settings to open Dornisoft folder and ffmpeg folder

Removed max dimensions limitations, ProRes can handle 8K resolutions now !

Added Hap, Hap alpha and Hap Q codecs ! With settings to enable compression and chunks

Crash bug fix

ProRes bugs fixes

Added a "AfterCodecs AV Muxing" Dialog at the end of the render

Added encoder metadata to ProRes with AfterCodecs' and ffmpeg' version (for example "ProRes HQ (AFC 1.1.2 3.2.2)") This info can be seen in AE and PP

Added fast decode for x264 / x265 when resolution > HD

In the preview text under "Format Options" little description of chosen encoding parameters (for example "x264 Q75 (Streaming)")

The encoding window is not always on top anymore

Prevents overwriting files with the same name before launching render, asking to rename the file OR overwriting OR cancel the render

Added a trial of 500 frames

First public version