From: "Brendan Bolles" Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5564688 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:13:44 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.13] (c-73-167-88-176.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [73.167.88.176]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877A9154095 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 10:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Subject: Re: [AE] Compression issues article In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 13:13:41 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Jim Curtis wrote: > Wikipedia says, "x264 is a free software library for encoding video = streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format." >=20 > What is this voodoo about paying $299? x264 is free under the GPL, so only other free software can use it for = free. But x264 can also be licensed under a commercial license, which = that product must be using. So they send the x264 people royalties for = every copy sold or something. One could make a free x264 plug-in and license it under the GPL. But = that would take some work. Maybe another Kickstarter project? Actually, it should be possible to make an FFmpeg plug-in for = Premiere/Media Encoder - one that would support all the formats FFmpeg = does. Again, would take some work, and have to be freely licensed under = the GPL. Brendan