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bobokirk
bobokirk
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February 14, 2022
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Element 3D Not Rendering from After Effects

  • February 14, 2022
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When I put an Element 3D on a layer in my scene, the Render Que and Media Encoder cannot render the composition. They will either freeze, or drop frames of the Element 3D layer, or flash up crazy blues, greens, or a solid white frame. 

I just finished a project 2 weeks ago with no problems.

I think there was an AE and ME update since then (I did try rolling back, and that did not work).

There was also an NVIDIA driver update since hten I believe.

Anybody else having trouble with this? 

Correct answer ToolfarmJP

Would you try to clear the cache of Element 3D? To do that in Element, go into the Scene Setup, click File, Preferences, and then clear those 2 cache buttons. 

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Anakin23979567az2k
Participant
October 3, 2025

The thing that finally fixed this for me was going to file/project settings and then turning on GPU cuda rendering under video rendering and effects.

ToolfarmJP
Community Expert
ToolfarmJPCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
February 23, 2022

Would you try to clear the cache of Element 3D? To do that in Element, go into the Scene Setup, click File, Preferences, and then clear those 2 cache buttons. 

    ThomasBenstem
    ThomasBenstem
    Participating Frequently
    August 1, 2023

    Thank you! that did the trick for me! 🙂

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