After effects rendering fail

[sasukeee]

Hello,

My after effects was doing well at rebdering for 1 month and until it stopped working properl, it would always fail at the same frame and wouldn’t contunie for some reason and i did every solution !! please help me out because this is annoying me SO much and its been a problem forever!!!

[imeilfx]

Ok... so If you say that AE worked for a month and now it stoppes on one frames. But are you saying that AE was rendering the same composition for a month without any issues and now on the same composition (without any changes) it stops on one frames and hangs render? If that is the case - there probably is some issue with some changes that happened in AE (update) or your hardware/os (update, new codecs installed, drivers compatibility etc.).
But if your story is more like:
I was using AE for a month doing and rendering several animations and now on the last one - render stoppes and can't continue.
Then there is almost 100% probability that it is not your os, not your hardware, not AE but there is something wrong with your composition. What can be the issue? It can be several from corrupted file to conflict with some plugins/scripts but since you said that you tryed everything to fix your issue - please list what you tryed and with what result - there is no reason for me to repeat and explain what you already tryed.

[sasukeee]

what so you mean by corrupted files? the methods i tried was changing frames, going into prefces and change the frames and that, and i didnt use plugins to be honest, just blur + scale + forshadow and mask, the forshadow and mask happen in the end but how do i fix it tho

[imeilfx]

Ok so if those are different compositions that probably is issue with your composition not with AE. And knowing that:
- to be honnest I don't know any default effect called forshadow so pease clarify where you found it
- corrupted file mean corrupted file - enough for playback but currupted in way that gives CPU trouble when it have to crecount with operations that you made on that files in AE
- and we still does not know on what files you are working - are they just AE solids, images/graphics or videos and what formats/codecs they are made with

- you are saying that you changed frames - what do you mean? Did you changed frames you mean you changed footages/graphics that you are using, or you changed framerate of your composition or maby you changed frame/composition resolution - please be more specific

To be honnest i think it would be much more beneficial for you and easier for us if you would spend some time on learning some AE basics - for that you can start here: After Effects tutorials | Learn how to use After Effects CC 

As for doing everything what I would do after checking that file is not corrupted, maby rerendering file to intermediate codec I would try to render my composition not to a video clip but to image sequence. That way I would be able to see on what exact frame my render freezes and knowing that I would inspect what is exactly happening in my composition at that frame, and then maby change effects that I use to something that works different but gives the same or cose result etc.

[sasukeee]

ugh i let me start again

i render DIFFERENT files, lets call files as edits.

i rendered EDIT number 1

i rendered EDIT number 2

HOWEVER edit number 3 wouldn’t carry on rendering, it would stop at a frame and would not carry on, it would stay there, i dont need to watch after effects  basics because i know how to use after effects and mg rendering is probably dying or something, the files im using are mp4, video clips.

the rendering stopped at a frame which is basically going into another clip, i dont know how to be clear enough but its basically in the middle of a transition, i hope you understand but either way i do not still understand what a corrupted file is, maybe should i remove blur? motion title? motion blur? who

[imeilfx · Accepted solution]

Ok so now we know something - it happened during transition between clips. That can happen - easiest way to fix that is to convert (for exaple with AME) both of your files into some good intermediate codec (mov/animation, prores, cineform) and use those files instead your mp4 files.
And for the future - mp4 is not a good codec for heavy editing/compositing/modifying and more than often mpf is the reason of kindf of issues that you have.
Let me know if that helped.

[sasukeee]

ill try that and let you know

[sasukeee]

thank you very much it worked!

[sasukeee]

and i meant rendering different compositions