• Adobe After Effects

  Rendering Effects Problem – Bug?

  Posted by Mitch Lewis on March 12, 2009 at 2:12 pm

  Has anyone else had this problem?

  I’ve had the problem using either Trapcode Shine or Magic Bullet Looks. I set up my effects as I would normally and RAM Preview them and they look great. But when I render them out the effects are 90% missing.

  In the case of Shine, I just see tiny little sparkles once in a while. No rays, no nothing.

  In the case of Looks, I don’t see any proper mixing. It has the look of the wrong composite setting on a layer (Normal instead of Overlay).

  Here’s where it really gets weird….

  I tried rendering to different codecs (other than DV). When I rendered to ProRes, they looked great! So then I tried ProRes with interlace turned on, the problem came back. My effects always render correctly when rendering progressive but not interlaced. Here’s what versions I’m running:

  After Effects 8.0
  Mac OS 10.5
  Quicktime 7.6
  MacPro Intel Quad Core 3.0Ghz
  Ciprico fiber channel 2.5TB RAID

  I’m guessing it’s a problem with Quicktime 7.6. Anyone else having this problem? (anyone other than me render interlaced anymore? hehehehe)

  Mitch Lewis replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kevin Camp

  March 12, 2009 at 3:00 pm

  i’m running a similar mac:

  2×2.8 quad mac pro
  osx 10.4.11
  qt 7.6
  cs3 (ae8.0.2)
  1tb stata2 raid

  i’m not having any trouble here with rendering shine and interlaced rendering (i don’t have ‘look’ to test)… also, i don’t have fcp, so i can’t test prores, but i rendered out to lossless (like i render just about everything out to).

  if you haven’t done so already, reboot… many strange computer issues are fixed with a good reboot…

  and, just to make sure, you don’t have opengl enabled for rendering, correct? it is a setting in the render settings, the default is off, but it my have gotten turned on. opengl can often account for oddities in renders/previews, so i usually turn it off all together.

  since some renders are better using different codecs, you may want to see if there are any updates to the codecs you are using… apple standard codecs would be part of the latest quicktime update, prores should be part of an apple pro apps update, any third-party codecs would need to be found on that company’s web site.

  if everything is all up to date, you might try pulling the ae pref folder out of users/username/library/preferences/adobe/after effects, drag the folder named 8.0 to the desktop and restart ae and see if that helps.

  if it doesn’t, you might drag the quicktime components (codecs) from the following locations to a folder on the desktop… library/quicktime (drag all those files to a folder on the desktop) and users/username/library/quicktime (do the same). you should leave the system/library/quicktime folder alone, unless you know you add third-party codecs there. then restart ae and try to render again. if that helps, you’ll need to start adding the codecs back a few at a time to identify which codec is causing problems, then find an update or live with out it…

  Kevin Camp
  Senior Designer
  KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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  Mitch Lewis

  March 12, 2009 at 3:39 pm

  Thank you very much Kevin for the detailed reply. I’m printing out this thread and will try your suggestions immediately. I’ll let you know what I find. Thanks!

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