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Adobe Media Encoder exporting colored bars

Community Beginner ,
Apr 26, 2020 Apr 26, 2020

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Whenever I export my video it just exports colored bars even though when I scrub through the .mov file in AE 2020 it scrubs fine. What am I doing wrong... See colored bars at bottom, note no audio comes through either when I try and play the file in the rendered version. I've also tried the YouTube Format with no success.... all footage shot on an iphone 

 

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Community Expert ,
Apr 26, 2020 Apr 26, 2020

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You have moved, renamed, or deleted the source files. Open After Effects and make sure that the links to the source files are still good. 

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 27, 2020 Apr 27, 2020

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Thank you, so when I go to export the media all files need to be in the same folder including the exported file? 

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Community Expert ,
Apr 27, 2020 Apr 27, 2020

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Do not move the source files. You can render to any location that has enough dis space, but you cannot move the source files before you render.

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 21, 2020 Aug 21, 2020

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Hey, I am facing this problem aswell.  How did you fix it.  How did you solve this problem?  It's really annoying since it was working perfectly before.

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Community Expert ,
Aug 22, 2020 Aug 22, 2020

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Does it paly correctly inside after effects before exporting to media encoder?

 

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 22, 2020 Aug 22, 2020

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Yes.

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 22, 2020 Aug 22, 2020

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Put all the files in the same folder
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Community Beginner ,
May 01, 2021 May 01, 2021

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My files are in the same folder, never moved. what should i do? The preview in after effects is perfectly fine.

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Aug 22, 2020 Aug 22, 2020

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When rendering, all source files must stay at their original places, where you've imported they from. Otherwice, encoder can't find them and generates these color bars.

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Community Expert ,
Aug 22, 2020 Aug 22, 2020

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Try this workaround:

quick After effects and Media encoder ,

then create a new comp place the video and render it again.

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New Here ,
May 20, 2021 May 20, 2021

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I am having the same problem... Tried to remove everything and place them together... still get this weird result. Note: I never moved any file

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New Here ,
Aug 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021

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After spending hours trying to solve this issue, I realized that all my source files was being saved on a OneDrive folder, which was having cloud uploading issues. I simply moved all my files (even the AE file) to a root folder like "Documents" and linked the footages again.  Worked flawlessly 🙆🏽‍:male_sign:

 

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New Here ,
Oct 24, 2021 Oct 24, 2021

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nothing worked for me pls help

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New Here ,
Feb 17, 2022 Feb 17, 2022

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I solved this! I'm on a Mac, at some point I must have denied After Effects access to my downloads folder (where my files were located), after allowing access it's working again!

 

To check if after effects and media encoder have access, go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Files and Folders

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Mar 25, 2022 Mar 25, 2022

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thank you so much that's work perfectly for mac.

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New Here ,
Aug 22, 2023 Aug 22, 2023

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Thank you very much, it worked 🙂

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Feb 05, 2024 Feb 05, 2024

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This did the trick for me, thanks!

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Feb 17, 2023 Feb 17, 2023

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One of the files may be corrupt. It happened to me. I just changed it and everything exported fine.

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