For a Mac installation using the latest Creative Cloud release, the 7thAE.plugin package should be copied to the following After Effects plugin location:
/Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2019/Plug-ins/Extensions Start After Effects. It will fail, but click Cancel instead of moving it to the Bin. Shutdown After Effects.
Go to the ‘Security & Privacy’ panel, ‘General’ tab. This will show that the plugin was recently prevented from running. Click ‘Allow Anyway’.
Run After Effects again. This time an extra option of ‘Open’ is shown, select this. After clicking open after effects will run and the plugin is seen.
Next time you start After Effects, you shouldn’t see the prompt but the plugin should be available for use.
1.If you will be exporting at 10-bit color depth, it's important to increase the project's working color depth in File --> Project Settings --> Color to "16 bits per channel" (the default being "8 bits per channel").
2.Add your Composition to the Render Queue and open that Queue item's Output Module Settings.
3.Select "7th 422 Sequence" as the Format. (this is the only .7th format selection available).
4.To differentiate between 8-bit and 10-bit output options: either select Video Output --> Depth:" Millions of Colors" (for 8-bit) or "Trillions of Colors" (for 10-bit)
Output with Alpha (RGB+A) is not supported.
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION:
AE will automatically applies some "Interpret Footage"settings to every given imported clip (and the Composition created based on those initial clip settings). For image sequences, it's important to review that both the Frame Rate and Color Space settings are appropriate. .7th files do not contain color space metadata, only the color bit values. So it's important to communicate with the media producer what color space the data was written to be interpreted as (e.g. Rec709). Also beware that After Effects is a color-managed workspace (configurable in File --> Project Settings -->Color). This means that all footage is conformed from its interpreted color space to the working color space for preview, composition, and ultimately export.
You can bypass color management for a given clip by checking Preserve RGB in its Interpret Footage -->Color tab. This is generally what you should do if using AE for simple edit/format convert purposes. Notice how different (and more correct in this case) the same .7th image sequence looks from above after checking Preserve RGB.