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  • Rendered movie empty, saved frame image not. Bug ?

    Posted by Michal Maruška on October 29, 2018 at 7:29 pm

    Hello,
    I just encoutered quite strange AE behaviour.

    There is comp, when everything looks/works fine. But when try to nest this “horse” comp into another or try to render it, file and preview remains empty (no image, black, nothing).
    But, when I try to “Save frame as” – image is there.

    Perhaps its me being silly ?

    Thank you for your time

    file:
    12845_horse.aep.zip

    Michal Maruška replied 7 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Walter Soyka

    October 29, 2018 at 8:09 pm

    Your layers are all guide layers — meaning they are visible in the viewer for the comp they are in, but they will not render on output or when precomposed. This is a great feature when you use it intentionally to bring some kind of reference into a comp, but it can be quite confusing if you’ve set them accidentally!

    To fix your issue, select your horse layers, then from the Layer menu, toggle “Guide Layer.” They will now render normally.

    See here for more:
    https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/layer-properties.html#guide_layers

    Walter Soyka
    Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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  • Michal Maruška

    October 30, 2018 at 8:54 am

    Oh, thank you very much. How could I overlook this ????????…

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