Jokyo HAP Ae encoder

Plugin for Adobe After Effects

Current version 1.9.0

Buy
75 €

Benchmark:

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Fps render (higher is better):

Adobe After Effects UHD composition with Big Buck Bunny movie

Tested on Windows 10 Pro 64 bits (Intel Core i7-5930K CPU @ 3.50GHz)

Quality:

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Average quality (based on SSIM)

Quality comparison:

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Community Edition Fast vs Jokyo HAP Fast (Better gradient and edges):

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Jokyo HAP Fast vs Jokyo HAP Normal (Better edges preservation):

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Jokyo HAP Normal vs Jokyo HAP Slow (Better gradient):

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Jokyo HAP Slow vs Jokyo HAPQ (Less blockiness):

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Jokyo HAP Slow vs Jokyo HAPQ (Better gradient and edges):

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Community Edition HAPQ vs Jokyo HAPQ (Important banding reduction):

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Jokyo HAPQ vs Jokyo HAPR (Better gradient and edges):

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Jokyo HAPQ vs Jokyo HAPR (Better gradient and edges):

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Encoding Tips: 

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– If you need alpha encoding use HAPA or HAPQA
– Avoid the use of non multiples of 4 pixel resolution (some media server / Gpu don’t work well with non multiples of 4 resolution).
– For Motion design content :
– Use banding reduction in your after effect composition.
– If you use HAP/A codec, use Slow quality preset if you have small gradient, otherwise Normal quality.
– For real picture content , if you use HAP/A codec, Normal quality is a good choice.
– For Motion design and real picture, HAPQ codec gives good quality and very fast encoding.
– For encoding matte part or wholly  grey, use “HAP Alpha Only” if the playout software support it.

– Try to crop your render to match your content (and avoid big empty areas). The impact of an empty area on file size is small, but it will increase the resources needed to play your footage.

– Adapt the “chunks” setting to the computer/app used to play your video (most of the time you can define the value of the number of “chunks” to the number of cores of the playout computer). If you didn’t know the hardware configuration of the playout computer, use 8 chunks which is a good compromise for most resolution.

Note that the chunk parameter, is the maximum chunk count who can be used to encode an HAP frame, it can be lower in practice to have all chunks with the same size.

– If you use alpha premultiply in your render, be sure to have a black background in your composition
(if you use other color as background, output file will by a premultiply by color, who is not supported by most of software)

How HAP codec works: 

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Minimum Configuration:
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Windows :
Windows 10 64 Bits or later
Adobe After Effects CC 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023 / 2024
Intel / AMD 64 bits CPU with SSE 4.2

Mac Intel :
macOS 10.12 (Sierra) or later
Adobe After Effects CC 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023 / 2024
Intel 64 bits CPU with SSE 4.2

Mac Apple Silicon :
macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) or later
Adobe After Effects CC 2022.3 / 2023 / 2024
Apple Silicon CPU (M1 or later)

Download:
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Free trial is limited to 250 frames output (watermarked)