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bobokirk
Inspiring
Feb 14, 2022 7:33 PM UTC
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Element 3D Not Rendering from After Effects

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? 

ToolfarmJP
ToolfarmJPCorrect answer
Community Expert
Feb 23, 2022 9:55 AM UTC

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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Participant
Oct 3, 2025 3:42 PM UTC

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.

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ToolfarmJP
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ToolfarmJPCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
Feb 23, 2022 9:55 AM UTC

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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ThomasBenstem
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Aug 1, 2023 2:41 PM UTC

Thank you! that did the trick for me! 🙂

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