Render Nothing

[Isabella Ava]

Hi everyone, i am very new to after effect so i think this may be some newbie mistake, but after tried every solution i found on internet, when i render my file, all i got were empty frames. I cannot render the Solid Layer no matter what i try 😞 can someone help to check the file i attached below and see if something wrong, thank you

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QCr582wh5f1hI42pfjtIS9zTPF7_yU-i

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

The problem is not a bug. You only have one layer and it has been set to a Guide Layer. Guide layers do not render.

Did you follow some kind of tutorial? You have conflicting effects. The Tint effect is unnecessary, you could have used a Red solid and adding it after adding glow pretty much kills the glow, Even better, you could have created an animated shape layer with a glow.  You have applied Linear Wipe twice and you could have recreated exactly the same image with a single mask on a red solid or an animated shape layer with blur added. You are also going to run into color problems with a full 255 red value against a transparent background that will render with color values of 0, 0, 0 (black). Those extreme color values against each other are going to cause problems when you render to a compressed 8-bit format like H.264 (MP4). 

I suggest you start with the tutorials you can find in the Learn section of the AE Home Screen, the After Effects Product page or the User Guide section of this forum. They all point here: Learn AE

[Isabella Ava]

Wow, thank you Rick_Gerard

That was a super detail reply, just reading it gave me a lot of things to learn. 🙂 thank you, everything is exactly as you said.