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  • After video is rendered, it shows all black and only plays sound, no video.

    Posted by John Hayse on June 4, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    Good evening everyone,

    I’m new to AE CS5 and I have made a about a dozen videos and not had any problems and then all of a sudden I was working on a project one day and after my video rendered it opened with a completely black screen and only played the sound. I didn’t think much of it and just deleted the project and moved on. I rendered two more videos just fine and then today I had another project I was exporting and when I double clicked it to open it up – again it was completely black with only the sound playing. Any help is greatly appreciated…

    After Effects CS5
    Project consisted of importing an MPEG file from cannon camcorder.
    1 new solid layer, a few masks, using shatter plug in and nothing
    will display.

    Anders Hattne replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Anders Hattne

    June 6, 2011 at 11:01 am

    Odd, I´d go for doing several renders turning off layers to see where things start going wrong, starting with the MPEG video, as that is a compressed format causing problems in AE.. Dave LaRonde knows about that.

    The MPEG solution is converting it to a different format before using in AeFx.

    http://www.ardillamedia.com

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