After Effect Green render error

Question

Hello. I have a video I would like to render out of after effects. During preview, the footage used in the video retains its normal colour, but at rendering it renders out with a greenish look (when I render with both After Effects and Media encoder).

- There is no shape layer with an odd blending mode directly above my footage layer

- I have tried changing the Render Engine to Mercury Software Only.

- I have tried RGB, RGB+Alpha, Alpha only. Still no luck.

- I even tried using a previous footage which had worked normally when I needed it, and it still came out with this same result, meaning my new footage isn't the problem.

These are the pictures during the preview and after render.

Please, I need help, as I make these videos on a daily basis.

Thanks.

ndubuisin53037587 · Accepted Answer

Alright. So I uninstalled After effects, deleting all preferences in the process, and the problem stooped after I reinstalled. I recall installing a couple of third-party plugins. I guess they were the source of the problem.

Thank you for your time.

Rick Gerard · Answer

Your screenshot does not show us the layers that are giving you problems or any of their modified properties. Select the layers, press UU to reveal everything you did to the layers, scroll down so the layers show and send us some more screenshots. That will tell us what you did to the layers.

We also don't know how you set up your render. Details would help there too.

The only obvious potential problem that I see is that the source footage, which I think is 101212_Tuesday.mp4 because it is selected in the Project Panel, may be corrupted or poorly decoded when the project file is rendered. You can check for that problem by soloing the footage layer, turning off all effects and running a short test render. Another way to test is to just create a new comp from the footage and don't do anything at all to the comp except rendering it with the same settings. You only need about 5 seconds of the test footage to see if the format of the original footage is the problem. If the footage is corrupt try rendering it in Premiere Pro or directly in the Media Encoder to a suitable production format that is not an MP4. It needs to be a frame-based visually lossless format suitable for the production workflow.

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