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aavriilll
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December 9, 2018
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my after effects is not rendering properly

  • December 9, 2018
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I made a video in after effects and when I play the preview everything is fine. but when I render it and go to QuickTime to see how it rendered, a few of my clips just stay still. It'll have all the effects and everything but the clip itself is not moving and it's also in a frame that I did not even use in the clip. please help

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Correct answer Mo Moolla

how do i render with a .mov an mp4? and play with VLC, WMP, etc.?


You will need to learn After Effects Beginner as a start.

After Effects tutorials

This should assist you quite a bit

Mo

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Warren Heaton10841144
Community Expert
December 12, 2018

If you advance through your rendered movie frame by frame in QuickTime Player, do you see the motion as expected?  It sounds like you’re having a playback issue due to your storage media not being able to play your rendered file fast enough.  This usually isn’t a problem for H264, but pretty common for Best Settings/Lossless renders.

Where is your movie file being stored?

If it’s on the Macintosh HD, that’s most likely high bandwidth storage.  If it’s on a USB device connected to the USB port of your Mac wired keyboar, that exceeding slow bandwidth.

-Warren

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aavriilllAuthor
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December 13, 2018

so what I need to do is free up some space on my mac?

Mo Moolla
Mo Moolla
Brainiac
December 10, 2018

What are you using to play back the rendered file?

VLC?

Quicktime Player?

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aavriilllAuthor
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December 10, 2018

quicktime

ToolfarmJP
ToolfarmJP
Community Expert
December 10, 2018

Hello,

What rendering option do you set when you render it? I mean the type of the codec you have set. Do you use Mac or Win? What version of After Effects do you use?

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aavriilllAuthor
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December 10, 2018

I use the codec H.264. I have a mac and use adobe after effects cc 2017

Nexahs1138
Nexahs1138
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December 12, 2018

If you're playing with QuickTime then you should be rendering as a .mov

If you're using h.264 then you should be rendering an mp4 and playing with VLC, WMP, or any of the other players.

.mov comes with its own codecs (something I learned recently from a video editor.)

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