After Effects 2019 rendering out messed up files. A LOT

[LeighO]

About 50% of the time I'm getting exports with failures. Making promos so they have different title options, and after rendering out a couple ok (either in ME or Render Queue, though ME seems more reliable) it starts throwing in frames from elsewhere in the sequence. Re-exporting the project has the same flash frames in the exact same place. Once it has started stuffing up I can't really salvage the project. Sequences that exported fine before now also have flashing frames.

Is this anything to do with duplicating AEP files? We have a template and then duplicate it for each new program. We've never had anything like this happen before.

This is a pretty serious problem to have in software released publicly. We shouldn't have gone to 2019 but 1 person did and stuffed the whole office up.

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[Dave_LaRonde]

I'm the only promo guy at my station that's still on CC 2017 -- everyone else is on CC 2019.  The reason:  our IT lady has not yet told me that the Home Office has approved CC 2018.  So why are the other folks on the other versions?  You got me by the short hairs!  I care not one whit.

Frankly, I'm glad -- I do a lot of Avid work and the common currency in media files on my mainly-Avid machine is Quicktime.  CC 2018 & later screwed up the codecs.

On your machines, I'd make damn sure to purge memory & caches regularly & frequently.  And tell that one CC 2019 guy to quit being so stinkin' fancy and backsave his projects so saner members of the department can use them on their more reliable versions.

Hey, the other folks in my department backsave for me!

[LeighO]

Moving back to CC 2018 does work.

And as an aside Dave, I find 2018 pretty reliable now for AE. Premiere is full of bugs after CC 2017 though.

[OussK]

Try to purge your memory and disk cash before start the render. go to Edit/Purge/All Memory and disk cache