• Adobe After Effects

  layer pops on and off

  Posted by Phil Lister on April 13, 2008 at 11:25 pm

  I’m having trouble with rendering a project. While it’s rendering, the layer blanks on and off, but only the lower half of the layer. THe background doesn’t do it. The layer blanking in and out shows up on the final output also.

  Specs: AMD dual core 4000 2Gigs RAM on-board graphics. I seem to get a lot of open GL, cannot render output at something, something resolution. I’m shopping for s video card. Can all of these problems be caused by on-board graphics?

  Thanks,
  Phil

  Phil Lister

  Lars Bunch replied 18 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Steve Morris

  April 13, 2008 at 11:45 pm

  I have had similar problems. Is this a 3D comp? Try changing the stacking order of the layers.
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  Phil Lister

  April 14, 2008 at 12:02 am

  Steve, No it’s not a 3D layer or project. Besides, it’s only one layer and a background. I am using the blur filter that creates light rays. Fractal blur I think. It’s not Trapcode shine, but the AE filter like it. I’m using AE 7.0 Pro by the way.

  Phil

  Phil Lister
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  Lars Bunch

  April 14, 2008 at 1:36 am

  Hi,

  Is it possible that the problem may stem from a corrupted source file?

  When I have problems like this, I often render the offending material to a tiff file sequence and then re-import that, using the file sequence instead of the potentially corrupt video. If there is a problem in the original source, turning it into a sequence of images is a good way of getting rid of embedded errors.

  Hope this helps,

  Lars

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