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Marvelous_Genie5E7B
Marvelous_Genie5E7B
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November 17, 2020
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Media Encoder stops halfway through export

  • November 17, 2020
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I made a 1:30 second video in After Effects, it has some photos and text over the top, the only effects I used were gaussian blur and lumetri color.  Very simple small keyframes here and there to have the photos zoom in and fade out.  I am using the newest version of After Effects and I have tried on the brand new Media Encoder and have even reverted to Media Encoder 14.03 (per several suggestions online).  When I send to Media Encoder and click play (render) it renders about halfway through the clip and then it stops and says "failed."

 

When I export from render queue in After Effects it works just fine, the problem is I want to export an .mp4 file not .avi or quicktime, hence the reason for wanting to use Media Encoder.

 

I am using Windows 10 Enterprise (this is a work computer), with 16gb ram, i7-6820HQ CPU 2.70GHz.

Correct answer BigJ76

This is what I was able to get to work for me. Your mileage may vary. When my Media Encoder would stop rendering I would click the "pause" button to pause the rendering operation that had stopped anyway. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up Task Manager. Under "Background Processes" you'll see Adobe After Effects. Click on it and then click "End task". AE will come right back up but it will be at much lower memory use. Un-pause your render job in ME and after a few seconds it should start going again. This happens when total memory in my system gets around 75% used and AE is using 15gb of that. There's more than enough memory to spare and I don't know why ME decides to quit when AE gets that high but it did. You do have to babysit your render job to repeat this proces but it worked on my end /shrug

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BigJ76Correct answer
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April 3, 2022

This is what I was able to get to work for me. Your mileage may vary. When my Media Encoder would stop rendering I would click the "pause" button to pause the rendering operation that had stopped anyway. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up Task Manager. Under "Background Processes" you'll see Adobe After Effects. Click on it and then click "End task". AE will come right back up but it will be at much lower memory use. Un-pause your render job in ME and after a few seconds it should start going again. This happens when total memory in my system gets around 75% used and AE is using 15gb of that. There's more than enough memory to spare and I don't know why ME decides to quit when AE gets that high but it did. You do have to babysit your render job to repeat this proces but it worked on my end /shrug

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    Pumkincat
    Participant
    July 19, 2022

    This was exactly correct. Thank you!

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    David Arbor
    Inspiring
    November 18, 2020

    After the render fails in AME, can you open the log file? File > Show Errors (Ctrl + Alt + L). Is any more information provided? Sometimes a specific frame number is noted and something could be corrupt, even though it plays back or renders just fine from AE. If that's the case, the solution is to often remove and reapply the effect.

    Marvelous_Genie5E7B
    Marvelous_Genie5E7BAuthor
    Participant
    November 17, 2020

    And I have already switched to Software only render...

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