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Rameez_Khan
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February 3, 2020
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FAQ: Dynamic link between After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder doesn't work. Next steps?

  • February 3, 2020
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UPDATE: 

If you render your After Effects projects via Media Encoder to create MP4 files, there is good news. 

After Effects Beta version 23.0x11 allows you to render H.264 (.MP4) directly from the After Effects Render Queue. The integration utilizes Media Encoder's backend encoding system without leaving After Effects. For more details, see: Exporting H.264 from the After Effects Render Queue

 

How to download After Effects Beta: 

 

However, if you are rendering your After Effects project via Media Encoder for other file formats, sometimes you might run into an issue where Media Encoder opens but the composition isn't added to the queue. Follow the troubleshooting steps given in this article to solve the problem: https://adobe.ly/2VenHZr

 

If the steps given in the article don't help you, we need to collect dynamic link logs from your computer and share them with the After Effects team. Please follow these steps on your computer and share the log files with any Adobe staffer in the community.

 

  1. In After Effects, choose Help > Enable Logging
  2. Restart After Effects and open your project that exhibits the problem
  3. Send your composition to Adobe Media Encoder
  4. After you have successfully replicated the problem, choose Help > Reveal Logging File in After Effects. A bunch of folders will open revealing different kinds of After Effects logs
  5. Look for the file named "LiveLink Log.txt"
  6. Upload the "LiveLink Log.txt" file to Adobe Creative Cloud and share the URL with us. Instructions here: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/share.html. Feel free to use any other file-sharing service if you want.

 

NOTE: Sharing the logs with the After Effects team doesn't assure an immediate fix. In some cases, you may get an immediate resolution while in others, it will help the After Effects team to get to the root of the problem and drive product enhancements.

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43 replies

Known Participant
January 18, 2024

I'm having this same problem and I'm shocked this hasn't been fixed in the 3 years since it was first reported.

 

Participant
April 5, 2023

My Media Encoder refuses to connect to the dynamic link server. https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/37b2b320-eadb-4800-6dad-f429285fec44

Inspiring
January 30, 2023

Hi,

 

We were hit with a similar scenario. Made a sample project with a composition to export. After enabling the logging, tried exporting the project to Media Encoder and it was not queued. Sharing the LiveLink log file here. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

RenegadeClock
Participant
November 4, 2022
Participant
August 9, 2022

Really hope this helps someone out, as this has been driving me nuts for days.

  • Use the Render queue to export a Quicktime verison of your project
  • Go to the Media browser in AME and manually select the QT file.
  • AME will ask you for permission to access the folder (Desktop in my case).
  • Cross your fingers!


After giving access permission my queue filled up with a dozen or so projects that I'd been trying to export without success, I deleted them and tried to add another, it worked!

For the record Adobe (and speaking as someone who has been using your products daily for well over 20 years), your apps are getting buggier and less intuative with every release, I wish you'd try and concentrate on doing what you do well rather than everything badly. It's really making our working lives miserable. 

Participant
August 9, 2022

Hello!
I did everything as follows and here is the link to Logs: https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/48a20b6e-a8c2-4586-7c12-a16328e67a07

Participant
August 9, 2022

See below

Participant
August 5, 2022

Same issue. Posting to recieve updates.

Perhaps worth noting, I'm on an M1 Mac, running Adobe '22 - all worked fine until today. Not sure if this is a clue...

Participant
June 27, 2022

I have followed your instructions and here is my log file:
https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/83a7194d-0ab8-4ea2-6211-57041e92d9a3

 

My issue is that AME won't queue my AE comp.

Known Participant
December 1, 2021

Any way we could get some form of an official update on this? v22.0.1 Clearly did not work to fix this problem for all users. It's also clear that rolling back to v18.4.1 does fix the problem for all users. @Rameez_Khan references there's an internal issue Adobe is using to track this problem, given it's a showstopper for many users I would expect a higher level of transparency here.  

 

All:

Please see the below links to the weird and obscure site Adobe appears to use in order to track user feedback. Not sure if they monitor this more than here, but worth posting if you're having this problem.

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911311-after-effects/suggestions/44441427-fix-after-effects-2022-v22-0-1

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911311-after-effects/suggestions/44140218-actually-let-us-make-a-direct-complaint

Participant
November 25, 2021

Hi, 
I followed all th structures and updated versions but could not solve link problem between AE and ME. here is the my log file
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oUdZyvEeCflQj3qvgy7i9uGyqXTkntAC?usp=sharing