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  • After Effects CC is rendering images that aren’t even in this project file?

    Posted by Anthony Natarelli on March 15, 2017 at 10:38 am

    As the subject says, I’m trying to render a video with a small animate and then a long period of blank transparency. I have the render set to RGB+Alpha, and everything goes fine while the animation is rendering and the exact frame that the animation is gone it replaces the blank work area with an overlay from a completely different project file. When I scrub through or RAM preview the comp, this doesn’t happen; it only happens when I actually render the comp.

    I even went as far as to delete the project file this unwanted image is from because I don’t need it anymore and it STILL comes up. It’s literally pulling an image that doesn’t exist on my system anymore. I cleared my cache, databases and whatnot, I don’t know where else the system could be pulling this from or, more importantly, what is causing it to, but I have run into the same problem no matter what I do. I’ve even created new projects to see if it was just a weird fluke with the first one and I am still having this problem.

    If anyone has any idea what could be causing this, I’d love some help because I have never seen this before in my life.

    Michael Szalapski replied 9 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Michael Szalapski

    March 15, 2017 at 6:52 pm

    Dave’s suggestions are great. Do those first.
    This is an issue that happened with older versions of AE. What is the exact version number you’re using?

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