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Media Encoder Export Error from After Effects 2020

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December 14, 2021
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I export. I gives me an error. I open the notepad (.txt) file. It says a lot of things. On the bottom it says "Could not read from source. Please check if it has been moved or been deleted."

How to fix this?

Maybe I can find a solution if someone can tell me what it means by "source".

Darn. A school assignment is due soon, and I need this running ASAP.

Thanks.

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ShiveringCactus

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That error, as far as I know, suggests that you have a missing file needed for render. The error log should have listed the file name. If it's not still in the location it was, then can you find it again in After Effects?

If it is where it is supposed to be, is it on a network? Rendering using files on networks has often been problematic, as the connection/access can be temporarily lost. Can you copy the file to somewhere on the computer? You say this is for school, if you're using a school computer, it's possible you don't have access to the local drives. You might need to use a portable drive, but these can also have drop out issues.

Finally, it might be the file is not readable for rendering. You might have to try converting it to something more generic and see if that then renders.

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nika223998874ksa

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How I still don't understand please help me break it down ....mine is saying that could not read from the source

P.M.B

Legend

When ME tries to read all those locations in your project of where the files it needs are located

If one has been moved or deleted or corrupted...the program will tell you "cannot read source"

Right? Ever hear the terms "read" & "write" when it comes to computer drives?

Things are "written" to drives. And things are "read" from drives.

The location where something is written to, and later "read" from is a local address where the "source" file is located.

If media encoder goes to the location where the file is supposed to be and it cannot "read" it

it's because either the file is no longer there or because it has been renamed or the data is corrupted.

For some reason it's "unreadable".

Like if your teacher told you to read pages 100-120 from a book but when you tried, page 115 was missing

so you went to your teacher and said "I couldn't read page 115 because it was missing"

So Media Encoder is the student and it's telling you that it cannot read the pages you told it to read because

it can;t find them, again, because either the file is no longer there or because it has been renamed or the data is corrupted.

~Gutterfish

Mylenium

Legend

Sorry, but this is not in any way useful. You have not provided any exact info about your project, your render settings, your computer and so on. If there is a reference to an unreadable source, at the very least we would need to know what files you use and where they are stored as well as things like cache settings and such. This could be anything from failing hardware acceleration to damaged source footage to simply being a fluke. At the very least try to render the project directly from AE and enable the "plus extra frame info" logging options. that way you at least know what it did last when the render stopped, which may provide more clues as to what the specific issue is.

Mylenium

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nika223998874ksa

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Mine says could not read from source

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