AME from After Effects rendering color bars in place of footage when using MXF files

[TalonProductions]

Updated to the latest After Effects yesterday and now when I try to use AME to render AE comps all my footage is color bars.  The renders work fine from the AE render queue, but I can't work on AE while it's rendering....

[hermaj]

I have the same problem.  I had to come back to second to last version in order to finish the work.

[EckiAME]

Sorry for your issues. Asking our friends over at After Effects and Formats.

[EckiAME]

Which system (OS, GPU, CPU) do you guys use? Are you both using After Effects and Media Ecnoder 24.3.0?

[Khyati Gupta]

@TalonProductions @hermaj Thanks for reporting the issue. Can you please provide more deatils like what media codec you are using under mxf container and on which system (OS) you are facing this issue. Whether you are using beta build or stable (release) build? What is the version of product?

[TalonProductions]

Hi:

Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (h264)
Win 11

Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 23H2
Installed on ‎2024-‎02-‎06
OS build 22631.3374
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22688.1000.0

Device name Edit01
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900K 3.20 GHz
Installed RAM 128 GB (128 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

ME 24.3 Build 49 - Current Release

AE 24.3.0 Build 50 - Current Release

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[TalonProductions]

Win 11, Core i0 19 14900k ASUS ROG Z790, Nvidia 4090 - Adobe software and drivers are all up to date.

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[Khyati Gupta]

@TalonProductions Thanks for your reply. Just want to understand whether your input Codec is H264 in mxf or it is output (exported) file's codec? If it is output codec then what was the input codec?

[TalonProductions]

That's the camera codec from a Sony FS5 in UHD 100 mbs.

The current output codec is Prores 422 HQ

[hermaj]

I have talked with Adobe Support, they think there is a bug in Media Encoder last version (they tested in Windows and Mac with mxf files I have been working with)

[TalonProductions]

It seems to be something in the pipeline from after effects, as I downgraded ME and it still didn't work.  I'd guess it's a path error....

[hermaj]

I downgraded both, after effects and media encoder and it works for me

[Simon_0815]

btw. Why it's not possible in Ae render queue export mxf?

same as gif. Anyhow, in Ae2023 it works fine.

[EckiAME]

Unfortunately, we can reproduce the issue on Windows and already have a bug ticket for this. I will let you know when we have news. I am very sorry for the inconvenience.