LukeWarmCoffee wrote:
I also have about 40 compositions in AE that for some reason need to be added to AME ONE AT A TIME if I want them in H264 mp4.
You can select multiple compositions in the Project panel in After Effects, then choose Composition > Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue to add all of them at once.
You can also drag multiple composition icons from the Project panel to the Queue panel in Adobe Media Encoder to add them.
Once in Adobe Media Encoder, you can Shift+select all of the output items in the Queue panel, then change the Format and Preset drop-down selectors to change the preset for all of the output items at the same time.
Also, in Adobe Media Encoder 2014.1 (8.1), you can put your After Effects project files into a watch folder. All compositions in the top level of the project (ie., not in a folder) will be encoded to the preset you choose. More detail here and here.