If you render your After Effects projects via Media Encoder to create MP4 files, there is good news.
After Effects Beta version 23.0x11 allows you to render H.264 (.MP4) directly from the After Effects Render Queue. The integration utilizes Media Encoder's backend encoding system without leaving After Effects. For more details, see: Exporting H.264 from the After Effects Render Queue
How to download After Effects Beta:
However, if you are rendering your After Effects project via Media Encoder for other file formats, sometimes you might run into an issue where Media Encoder opens but the composition isn't added to the queue. Follow the troubleshooting steps given in this article to solve the problem: https://adobe.ly/2VenHZr
If the steps given in the article don't help you, we need to collect dynamic link logs from your computer and share them with the After Effects team. Please follow these steps on your computer and share the log files with any Adobe staffer in the community.
In After Effects, choose Help > Enable Logging
Restart After Effects and open your project that exhibits the problem
Send your composition to Adobe Media Encoder
After you have successfully replicated the problem, choose Help > Reveal Logging File in After Effects. A bunch of folders will open revealing different kinds of After Effects logs
NOTE: Sharing the logs with the After Effects team doesn't assure an immediate fix. In some cases, you may get an immediate resolution while in others, it will help the After Effects team to get to the root of the problem and drive product enhancements.
so, since I can't do any work untill this issue is solved, I will mess around with diffent setups (enabling, disabling, opening, closing, cleaning, re-installing...) as mentioned above and drop you the Log files here... until someone on the other end of the line figures out what's wrong...
I did manage to export my composition via the AE render cue directly, AFTER disapling the multi-frame render setting in the preferences!
Before I did try to first add it to the AE render cue and then via the Media Encoder. The ME did show me a cue in it's render list which had a different render setting (h.264 - propably from my last use of the ME) then the one in the AE render cue (quicktime custom prores 422)...
well, at least I can continue working (somehow) although I do make use of exporting via the ME, so please make sure the next update fixes this issue!!!
It does semm aparent that it's some bugg concerning the dynamic link between AE and the ME!
oh, and as an add-on to this: After Effects does not realy close when I close it. the process is still running in the backround and I have to close it via the task manager!
- Uninstalling and (painstakingly) reinstalling AE and AME. - Deleting Preferences for both
- Running Adobe cleaner tool for both
- Disabling multi-frame rendering
- Adding it to the queue first then adding to AME from there
And, I have an extra issue: The files exported straight from the queue have messed up audio, it's as if it's putting a +20dB gain on it and causing it to clip to hell. Unbelievable, that we're on version 24 of these apps and we STILL have this happen every single time they update them. No to mention the breaking of all plugins and shortcuts and forcing us to re-do those because the folder gets renamed to the year version, AND leaves a trail of old files behind. Come on.
Well, thanx Adobe for releasing a new update.... problem: it solved NOTHING 😞
still the only way to export anything from AE is via the own render-cue (at least!)
oh, BTW it is a AE problem! PP, CH, AU they all make use of the ME with no hustle.
plus, I had some projects that used dynamic link between PP and AE, and they ofcourse are all shot to hell...
so untill you solved this issue, it does mean a lot of time working around it, which I can not ask my clients to pay for ...
(yes, I tried ALL the work arounds to be found in all these forms and as (scarsly) provided by your company!)
and please forgive the frustrated tone, but after rougly 1+ week of handling this issue on a daily (& nightly) basis while being in the midst of a major project for an important customer, I am starting to be a little bit annoyed... 😉
I bassically tried every proposed solution I could find (including the one you suggested)... even tried combinations of solutions and in the end did de-install, re-install and clean up EVERYTHING from Adobe on my computer... results remain the same... and as all this trouble-shooting is costing me quite a bit of time
Sorry about that. Usually these updates won't fix migrations containing dynamic links you have "in place." I would try to migrate previous projects to the new version once more. How does that work?
Thanks, Kevin
Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
For folks who are still struggling with this, I've figured out a work around so I can at least get my work done. I uninstalled the 22.0 version of both After Effects and ME, and installed the last version that worked (v 18.4.2). It's not a particularly elegant solution, but it's being working smoothly in the mean time until Adobe figures this bug out.
Any way we could get some form of an official update on this? v22.0.1 Clearly did not work to fix this problem for all users. It's also clear that rolling back to v18.4.1 does fix the problem for all users. @Rameez_Khan references there's an internal issue Adobe is using to track this problem, given it's a showstopper for many users I would expect a higher level of transparency here.
All:
Please see the below links to the weird and obscure site Adobe appears to use in order to track user feedback. Not sure if they monitor this more than here, but worth posting if you're having this problem.
Really hope this helps someone out, as this has been driving me nuts for days.
Use the Render queue to export a Quicktime verison of your project
Go to the Media browser in AME and manually select the QT file.
AME will ask you for permission to access the folder (Desktop in my case).
Cross your fingers!
After giving access permission my queue filled up with a dozen or so projects that I'd been trying to export without success, I deleted them and tried to add another, it worked!
For the record Adobe (and speaking as someone who has been using your products daily for well over 20 years), your apps are getting buggier and less intuative with every release, I wish you'd try and concentrate on doing what you do well rather than everything badly. It's really making our working lives miserable.
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