Render issues from external hard drive. After Effects to Media Encoder

Question

I'm having some difficulty rendering AE compositions on ME. The reason is that I work from an External Hard Drive to save space on this computer. The computer is a Mac.

When I try to open the file through Media Encoder through the "import after effects composition" option, and select my composition, the popup window tells me "this project could not be opened."

It doesn't state why, and it doesn't say anything but that.

I am however, able to render from files in my documents/desktop, so it I don't think its a Media Encoder problem, I think I just need to link up the hard drive with media encoder somehow. I know that it should work because I'm able to render Premeire Pro projects from the External Drive through Media Encoder no problem.

Does anybody know how I would be able to render After Effects projects from an external hard drive in Media Encoder? Any help is appreciated!

Mylenium · Answer

Without any specific info about your footage, in particular the formats and file paths nobody can tell you much. I would suspect that due to your external storage the internal URI paths of the project may get too long due to how volumes are mounted on OSX. Shuffling around a few folders and renaming the volume may fix this, though there's of course a chance you may have do some nerd stuff in the terminal to create a new mount point that works better. also of course the standard procedures apply like checking your user privileges/ folder permissions.

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