We are certainly making Adobe Media Encoder the application to use for creating final deliverable files, but we're still
putting a lot of effort into pipeline and automation features in the After Effects render queue---as evidenced by the output file name and location templates in After Effects CC (12.2) and the scripting improvements for render settings and output module settings.
Long-term, we'd like to keep all of the functionality that the After Effects render queue provides now but have it send
certain work to Adobe Media Encoder as appropriate.
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Subject: Re: [AE] Adding functionality to Render Queue
It seems to me that adobe is trying to make media encoder the main render tool for AE and premiere. So if something like this were implemented, i think media encoder would get it first.