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June 23, 2023

Strange cropped/repeated edge when exported in media encoder

  • June 23, 2023
  • 42 replies
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For some reason media encoder changes the position and repeats a section of my composition when exporting.

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Media encoder output



This issue occured when I tired to render the composition in Quicktime Format. It affects the output of the video, and when I try to switch back to H.264, the updated position+repeated edge persist.

I managed to replicate this exact issue with a totally different composition using the same steps which makes me think its a media encoder issue.

42 replies

esresrs
Participant
August 2, 2023

I know.. here's an idea... why not make it known that unless you update both AE and ME you are likely to break the workflow and cause hours of problems. Like post it somewhere obvious.. boot screen of AE perhaps? So we can spend less hours of our day looking for workarounds for your endless list of bugs? Thank you.

Participant
August 1, 2023

i'm running both 23.5 AE and media encoder, and still having the problem

Community Manager
August 1, 2023

I've seen a few mentions of hardware acceleration being involved here, but the only bug I've been able to confirm is solely based on which versions of the software you use together. There may be a separate bug that is specific to hardware acceleration, but I haven't seen that confirmed empirically anywhere.

Participant
August 1, 2023

can you be more specific? disable hardware accelleration in AE or media encoder? and from which settings section, please?

Kevin_S33
Participant
July 28, 2023

For me, both softwares were 23.1. I upgraded only the Media Enconder to 23.5 and now it works just fine.

Jenkmeister
July 26, 2023

You can actually fix this by just making sure both After Effects and Media Encoder are on same version (e.g. 23.5). @dtull-adobe described above the technical reason, but the simple answer is to just make sure AE and AME are both on 23.5. 

Participant
July 26, 2023

hey,

so im trying to export a video but its doing this weird crop/shift thing.

anyone know whats up?

cheers

Mylenium
Legend
July 26, 2023

It's a known bug. Turn off hardware acceleration and/ or downgrade to AE23.4.

 

Mylenium

Participant
July 22, 2023

I reinstall and reset all the settings of After effect and that works.

Participant
July 22, 2023

Thank you all for the help. Waited over an hour for a video to export twice only for this bug to make it unusable. Rolling back now. They've had a month to get this bug fixed and they should've informed Windows users that it's happening so as not to waste our time. Hopefully Adobe gets it together soon!

Mylenium
Legend
July 19, 2023

It's simply a bug. Turn off hardware acceleration and/or downgrade to 23.4.

 

Mylenium