Video export playing weirdly// Do I need Adobe Meida Encoder to solve the issue?

[Adooby-doobie]

Hi

When I export a video from AE, the video plays weirdly on VLC. The effects don't show; the entire range of motion is absent.

Do I need Adobe media encoder to solve the issue?

I'm using AE 2020 and Mac Ventura 13.4.

[Andrew Yoole]

Sorry, please provide more information.  

Describe exactly how the video playback looks.  Is it stuttering?  Just a still frame?  Do you see any motion at all?

Are you defintiely rendering the correct composition?  It's easy to accidentlly render a precomp or other footage item if you have it selected in the project window when you send to the render queue.

What format are you rendering to, including resolution, frame rate and codec?  A coomon error is rendering to a lossless format that creates files so large that your system or hard drive can't reliably play it back.

[Adooby-doobie]

Hi

Thanks for replying. I'm just starting out with AE. 
The two options: Render Settings and Output Module have other settings within which are a tad bit confusing to me. However, I messed around with the output and render settings and successfully exported a file that could be played through QuickTime Player. But still, the animations weren't functioning- it was just a still image.
Should I play around with all the settings so that I could have the desired output? Or, if you could point me towards the right direction with regard to exports then I'd really appreciate your help.

Thank you!

[Andrew Yoole]

Can you please post a screenshot of the whole interface, including timeline and project window.  Select any layers that have animation applied and press UU to reveal all the keyframes.

Also, re-post your pic of the render settings, but twirl down all the settings (Render Settings and Output Module) so we can see exactly what you're outputting.

As a general rule, rendering with the Lossless Output Module can create files that are so huge that many players can't play them.  Try rendering to ProRes422 or MP4/H264 for now.

[Adooby-doobie]

I cannot find those render options.

[Adooby-doobie]

Hi!

I rendered it with Quicktime DV pal 48khz. its working fine now! 
Thank you