This used to be possible with MOV files before a security hole was discovered in MOV files and Adobe made this difficult. My PDFs show videos of deaf sign language (ASL) in floating windows (since otherwise they'd take up too much space), and hopefully should permit readers to view them frame by frame to study their details. I have what I believe is a related problem. It will more than pay for itself in the first 24 hours unless you work for free. If you are really concerned with delivery time you should spend $100 and buy RenderGarden. Not learning and using the best tools for the job is going to eventually leave you behind. Blaming Adobe for trying to save you from problems encoding files when another manufacturer drops support is a little silly. Not running the latest version of AE is also denying you many improved features that are huge time savers if you do motion graphics, work with masks, do color grading and a bunch of other things. H.264 produces much cleaner files and better playback performance when you use Multi-Pass rendering and that was never available through the output module but has always been available in the AME. Since the AME was introduced I have been far more productive because I now almost never wait for a render. The AME is not that much slower, in actual fact it saves you time because you don't have to stop working in AE while renders are running. Sometimes custom players used for things like animated signage are stuck with h.264 in a MOV container so all you have to do is change the extension to get those players to work. Any media player will accept the files without problems. If the video is going directly to the audience then an h,264 MP4 is the most universal format you can find. ProRez is good for a Mac, Cineware (free from GoPro) is also a suitable production format.
The proper format depends on the systems your client has in place. I'd pick a suitable production format for that. Also, H.264 is a very lossy intraframe codec that should never be used for further production or archiving.
You should also gently educate your client to the face that QuickTime no longer is working on or guaranteeing support for h.264 QuickTime. MOV's that are really mp4's playback just fine. The big problem is rendering to the MOV container. If the client really needs the movie as h.264 in MOV format then just use the AME to render an MP4 and change the extension.
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