After Effects -> Media Encoder issues

[armanjrivard]

I have a 7 minute video that looks great in After Effects.

When I send it to media Encoder the video has spots that do not render properly.

- The audio skips

- The text skips

- Backgrounds fade in and out

I've tried on several different systems.

Changed lots of settings. Used different drives.

I cannot get a good render from the encoder.

I am at current version of AE and Media Encoder.

Any assist would be appreciated.

[lambiloon]

Hi there can you share a screenshot or tell which version are you using for it then we help you...Thanks

[armanjrivard]

[armanjrivard]

Watching your video now. I normally don't use the internal After Effects render Queue because of the format.

I will test what you have here.

[armanjrivard]

I can already see it building a bad .avi during the render preview. The AE render is even worse. This is supposed to be a faded text with a background. No background and the text is doubled.

[lambiloon]

hi not use avi format use quicktime mov file format for better outcome

[armanjrivard]

Aside from it taking longer and crashing a couple of tries, it produces the same bad results.

[Carlos Ziade]

what format are you exporting to? did you try render queue?

[armanjrivard]

I've tried the render queue ( avi,mov ). Same random results as above.

[Carlos Ziade]

I think its better to send to After Effects render queue ...

or, if you really need to send it over to Media Encoder as stated, you might have to change

the renderer inside Media Encoder to 'Software Only'

[armanjrivard]

I already tried the "Software Only" method. Same problem.

It's strange that the issues don't always happen at the same time, it seems random.

I have some unused layers that I am going to prune out, maybe cut the size down and retry.

[armanjrivard · Accepted solution]

This is working now and I wanted to detail some of why. My project is made up of about 30 "scenes". Each scene has a few parts, background, text, camera's etc...

Lot's of scenes had test layers. Nothing weird, text, backgrounds etc... but they were used for testing and were mostly just turned off.

I went through each scene and removed the cruft. Anything off was removed. I'm not sure if it was contents or just size but the renders now work perfectly. Both using the internal render as well as the Media encoder.

I've saved a lot of the source versions and after I am done I may go back through and try to debug which layers caused the issue.

Thanks for everyone's replies here, even trying these things helped.

[Rameez_Khan]

Thanks for letting us know, armanjrivard.

Best,

Rameez