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rob art | illustration
rob art | illustration
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January 28, 2026
Question

My renders are missing assets and for some reason extending the length for no reason.

  • January 28, 2026
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Hi
Not sure what is happening, but on my old iMac I have the AE 25 and I rendered out a video this afternoon and it was fine. So I thought I would pre-render some that I did a few years ago. I opened them, checked everything was there, trimmed them, and prepared for render. I added to ME and it said ready. Set it rendering and came back 3 hours later, and all three videos had some elements missing, and then after the main section it seemed to add like 20 minutes of blank video, that isn’t even in the timeline and then the end credit section.

Does anyone know what this bug is?

Thanks

Rob

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    nishu_kush
    Community Manager
    nishu_kushCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    January 29, 2026

    That is strange. Sorry to hear about the issue.

     

    In which version of After Effects was the project created? Is it happening with a specific project? Can you try importing the project into a new blank project and see if that helps?

    Let me know how it goes.

     

    Thanks,

    Nishu

      rob art | illustration
      rob art | illustrationAuthor
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      January 29, 2026

      I actually just tried rendering it via the render queue and it was fine, so I am guessing that the Media Encoder app was somehow not reading the XML file before rendering. I will check and get back on here.

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