Encoder stuck at end of encoding

[MixMastaJames]

I'm rendering an After Effects comp in 2024 Encoder and it's stuck at the very end. It says it has 00:00:05 left but it won't move from there. It's been like this for hours now. The .aac and .m4v files are in the folder but aren't being combined. Is this a known issue? How do I get it to stop?

As a side note, can we get rid of forcing us to use the encoder and go back to just rendering in AE? It's annoying and takes forever to load AE projects. 

[Mylenium]

Impossible to say anything. You have not provided any info about your system, render settings, contents of the project and so on.

Mylenium

[MixMastaJames]

It's not impossible to say anything if it's a known bug or something.

Instead of being a dick, you could have simply asked for that information if it was important.

If anyone else that wants to help needs to know:

Windows 11 running an i7 2.3 GHz, 16 GB of Ram

I'm exporting an H264 file (obviously from my post) at 1920 x 1080, 30fps, Progressive, 48000 Hz Stereo and it's 04:43:17 long. Nothing special about it, just video, text, graphics, etc. It renders fine until it gets to the end to compile the mp4. 

[jenkmeister]

AE 2024 (and 2023) supports H.264 encoding from the Render Queue. Do you have the same issue if you export from AE instead of Media Encoder?

[MixMastaJames]

Didn't know you could render from inside AE now. I tried it and it worked, but still had the same problem with the media encoder. 

[nishu_kush]

Hi MixMastaJames,

Did you try the new version of After Effects and Media Encoder? Does it work better?

Let us know. I am moving this thread from Bugs to Discussions for now.

Thanks,
Nishu