• Adobe After Effects

  Red Blinking on RAM preview and Render

  Posted by Steven Santiago on July 10, 2016 at 5:42 pm

  Hey guys, Im having this problem that when i import a video from my documents to after effects it seems to blink red at random frames. The videos themselves do not blink red outside of AE but only when i put them in. It blinks in the ram preview and render. I render the videos as Quicktime H.264. does anyone know how to fix it?

  Daniel Jacobson replied 8 years, 6 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  Steven Santiago

  July 11, 2016 at 1:11 am

  All i know about AE is that its
  2015.3 release
  version 13.8.0.144
  6% used of 3.9GB

  and im also running windows 10. I know nothing more about this computer. The red flashings take up the whole screen at random frames of the video. there really isnt a pattern to it. it happens when i import a video file to after effects. and it flashes the same way when i render the composition. ive seen other questions similar but they dont really cover my problem. It happens no matter how many layers i have and i just started having this problem after i recently updated it.
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  Daniel Waldron

  July 11, 2016 at 5:07 pm

  It’s been happening in After Effects and Premiere for years. There are different explanations for it that may or may not make sense, but usually transcoding the footage seems to solve it.
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  Steven Santiago

  July 11, 2016 at 5:23 pm

  i dont know what that means. can you explain how to do that
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  Daniel Waldron

  July 11, 2016 at 6:23 pm

  You can convert your footage to another format such as ProRes or DNxHD using Adobe Media Encoder and import the new version into After Effects.
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  Walter Soyka

  July 11, 2016 at 7:56 pm

  Red frames often indicate a decoder failure:
  https://helpx.adobe.com/media-encoder/kb/red-frames.html

  Walter Soyka
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  Michael Szalapski

  July 12, 2016 at 2:50 pm

  There is a bug.
  There is a temporary fix you can do yourself.

  See this post [link]

  – The Great Szalam
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  Daniel Jacobson

  February 13, 2018 at 5:05 am

  Hey so does this also work in media encoder? I was having the issue in media encoder also…

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