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Emergency, mystery white square
Trying to finish up the final details on a video I need to get in tomorrow morning. I rendered out of AE and not only was the video highly compressed (no reason, I’d think, since I’d selected best quality and am exporting out the same resolution as the project I’m working on..)
BUT NOW THERE’S A WHITE SQUARE IN MY COMPOSITION!
It’s not an element that’s been added. It’s just there, and when I export it’s still there. What the heck is going on?!? I’m about to take an ax to the computer.
Someone please help me before I end up committed.Thank you,
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8 Replies
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My first guesses:
– plugs that need serials
– layers that have been set to wireframe in your comp, whilst the bestrendersetting puts everything in normalview (eg null-layers) -
maybe your default best-settings have been changed by some other user, best to check the details.
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But why the white box…
I did try installing Magic Bullet, a copy that came with my DVX, and it’s for PPro 1.5 , and was giving me messages about not being ‘serialized’. First time I’ve ever heard that.
Anyway, I ended up just staying all night re-doing everything from the ground up.I think Adobe out to replace the 2 million and 1 vague error messages with a giant middle finger that renders over the video.
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I’m willing to bet the white box is a null that is rendering with its viability turned on.
Nulls are 100 x 100 white solids that do not render by default, but they WILL render if you drag them out of your solids folder and bring them back into another comp.
Carl Larsen
TelescopeMediaGroup.net
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I just had a case of the mystery white square showing in my renderings. Turns out I had a Match Grain filter, which by default, shows a box for the preview region. I just turned it off and solve the mystery.
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Had the same problem, it was in Match Grain. Thank you!
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Thanks Carl, your response solved a mystery about AE I recently noticed. What is the utility for nulls to render as such when dragged from the project panel into a comp??
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Whew, this post just saved my butt. It was the Match Grain! I was pulling my hair out on that one!
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