Not rendering properly via Adobe Media Encoder

[reindeer4]

I have a project, which includes some comps using Element3D.

Inside AE CC 2018, everything looks correct when I scrub through the timeline.

When I render things through Adobe Media Encoder, however, different elements from different comps or layers show up or disappear when they shouldn't.

Had trtied this as png seq with alpha, mp4, uncompressed avi, and had sent to Adobe Media Encoder via After Effects and Premiere pro - but kept running into these bizarre renders where individual frames would be screwed up.

After much wasted time, I finally rendered from After Effects own render queue and that completely fixed the problem.

Just posting in case others have had this experience either where AME is the culprit.

This is part of a much larger project that I've been working on, and this part had rendered without any issues previously. Tried splitting off this comp to a separate After Effects project in case size/memory was an issue, but still ran into the same problem.

[Roland Kahlenberg · Accepted solution]

There have been quite a number of similar reports of rendering issues when working with E3D and AME. The solution is to render from AE. Then bring the resultant file into AME for H264 output, if this is your preferred delivery format.

[vhollers]

I can verify this worked! I had a short composition and one layer (an image) was not exporting when I went to "Composition > Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue" and it would not display the layer in the export. However, I exported it as a .mp4 and then uploaded it into AME and exported it as a .gif and it worked perfectly! Not great, but at least it worked!

[JAbel]

Very frustrating. I uninstalled ME2021 and went back to ME2020. This eliminated the glitches. I'm finding more and more software issues with new releases. Not what you'd expect from a premium brand. 

[Rick Gerard]

Element 3D requires a GPU that meets their system requirements. The Media Encoder does not fully utilize the GPU because it opens AE in the background and it's just not perfect yet. 

One thing that might help is opening the Media Encoder, closing After Effects, then adding your comp directly in the AME using the + button. Once the render has started you can open AE again and start working on another comp. I've found this works a little better on render intensive comps. 

[JAbel]

I went back to ME 2020. Fixed the issues for me. Not sure why I continually have to deal with bugs from updates I don't need or want. So frustrating! 

[ShravaniDixit]

Seems like this is one of those problems which has more than one solution. Mine is for someone who has tried everything mentioned here. Try changing the GPU renderer(placed at the bottom of the queue) from Cuda to OpenGL. Apparently they don't like Cuda as much as they say.