

x265: files are ~25% lighter than x264 for the same quality, but slower encoding A special Youtube Upload profile is provided, very easy to use! x264: best H264 / AVC implementation, outperforming both Adobe Media Encoder and QuickTime H264. HAP GPU accelerated codecs: 4 codecs (Hap, Hap Alpha, Hap Q and Hap Q Alpha), you can choose disable Snappy compression and change the number of CPU chunks, and for Hap and Hap Alpha you can choose your compression algorithm (each have their own tradeoff between speed and quality) ProRes 4444 Light / 4444 / XQ supports the Alpha Channel.

ProRes: 6 official profiles (422 LT / Proxy / Normal / HQ / 4444 / XQ) and 2 unofficial profiles (422 Ultra / 4444 Light). MP4 just happens to support codecs that tend to be more compressed than some of the professional-level codecs supported by MOV.After Effects, Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder native exporters bringing you ProRes / H264 / H265 / HAP codecs for excellent quality and lightweight videos, on Windows and OSX, no Quicktime needed anymore! Note: An MP4 file is not more compressed than an MOV file, it all has to do with the compressed video inside the container, not the container itself. In fact, if you’re on a mac you can just go in and change the file extension from MOV to MP4 and the video file will work perfectly. There’s a full list of video containers on Wikipedia. Popular video containers include MOV, AVI, FLV, and MP4. You can always tell what video container a given video file is by the extension at the end of the file. This means it’s a file format that houses the video, audio, closed captioning, and metadata that makes up an actual video.

As a motion designer or video professional it’s essential that we understand what MP4 means. There’s a bit of misconception out there about what MP4 actually means. Once you’ve adjusted your settings to your liking hit the ‘Export’ button.
