rendering to h.264 deletes background color?

[Victoria5E6B]

I'm trying to render my after effects file to h.264 with the adobe media encoder so that it will export to instagram at high quality, but when it opens in media encoder the background color of my video is deleted and is black. the text and music is still there and the quality is fine, but the background color is no longer there?? help???

[Martin_Ritter · Accepted solution]

Make sure that you have a solid or shape layer filling the background in your color.

Setting the composition background color is a complete different thing and just works inside AE for preview purpose.

*Martin

[Victoria5E6B]

that worked, thanks so much! (first time using AE if you couldn't tell lol)