• Adobe After Effects

  AE not rendering final comp.

  Posted by Charles Murphy on February 4, 2008 at 5:38 pm

  Using AE 6.5, I try to render a final composition. It doesnt render any video, i end up getting a file which is about 2 seconds long, and nothing but black screen. The video I’m rendering is only about 20 seconds long. When I try a RAM preview, it says there are no frames to preview, and the render log says this:
  Adobe After Effects v6.5 (Windows) render log for project “title.aep”

  Rendering started on 2/4/2008 at 2:58:29 AM

  2/4/2008 2:58:29 AM: Starting composition “Final”.

  Render Settings: Best Settings
  Quality: Best
  Resolution: Full
  Size: 720 x 480
  Proxy Use: Use No Proxies
  Effects: Current Settings
  Disk Cache: Read Only
  Frame Blending: On For Checked Layers
  Field Render: Off
  Pulldown: Off
  Motion Blur: On For Checked Layers
  Shutter Angle: (From Comp)
  Solos: Current Settings
  Time Span: Work Area
  Start: 0:00:00:00
  End: 0:00:00:00
  Duration: 0:00:00:02
  Frame Rate: 29.97 (comp)
  Guide Layers: All Off
  Storage Overflow: On
  Skip Existing Files: Off

  Output Module: Lossless
  Output To: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\Final_3.avi
  Format: Video for Windows Movie
  Output Info: No Compression
  Embedding: Project Link
  Output Audio: Off
  Channels: RGB
  Depth: Millions of Colors
  Color: Premultiplied
  Stretch: –
  Crop: –
  Final Size: 720 x 480
  Post-Render Action: None

  0:00:00:00 (1): 0 Seconds
  0:00:00:01 (2): 1 Seconds
  2/4/2008 2:58:30 AM: Finished composition “Final”.

  Total Time Elapsed: 1 Seconds

  Log closed on 2/4/2008 at 2:58:30 AM

  Any help would be greatly appreciated as it’s for a project I’m trying to complete. Thanks!

  Thorsten Miess replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Thorsten Miess

  February 4, 2008 at 6:34 pm

  Im not sure if im seeing the problem, but its the only thing i can think of in your case.

  -Your work area is to short

  it looks like your work area is set to a to short area:
  Time Span: Work Area
  Start: 0:00:00:00
  End: 0:00:00:00

  After Effects renders only the work area.
  And also after effects need more than 2 frames to render; in your case there are less than 2 frames.

  To solve the Problem extend your work area by click&drag the end and start of the work area to your end and start for your comp. You can also go to the first frame and hit “B” and then go to the last frame and hit “N”. Then you should be able to see the full video after rendering.

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