Number animation with slider control won't render

[z_zza]

Hi everyone, I'm having an issue with a number animation.

The numbers are in a text layer whose "source text" I linked to a slider control effect (on that same layer) using the pick whip. The slider control has two keyframes: one at value 0 and the other at a given value I want to be the end result (e.g.: 1893, in one case).

I then pasted the following text into the expression to avoid decimal points showing up: Math.round(effect("Slider Control")("Slider"))

The thing is: everything works fine when I preview the video, but is missing when I render it (both as H264 .mp4 and as Quicktime .mov)

It renders as if I only had empty text layers.

Do you know what might be wrong?

I'm using After Effects CC 2019 and Media Encoder CC 2019

[Mike_Abbott]

Could you possibly have your text layer set to be a guide layer?

[z_zza]

Hello Mike, thank you for taking the time to answer!

Unfortunately the text layer is not set to be a guide layer, so that's not the problem.

But on the other hand, I actually didn't know about guide layers and had turn to google to understand your question, so now I've learned something new.

Thanks!

[Martin_Ritter]

I just re-created your setting and can't find anything unusal.

Have you tried the basics?

- restart AE and computer

- create new project and paste content from old project int it

- recreate everything from scratch

and so on...

[Mike_Abbott]

Just one other thought... could it be a font issue?  Does it render with another font?

[z_zza]

That's interesting, I'll give it a try!

[Roland Kahlenberg]

And if Mike's suggestion does not work, trash AE PREFs.