Export Module failure

[Laurie Cooper]

i’m as newbee as they get but your suggestion of outputting to a different format is the only thing that worked for me. thanks!!

[Juan Lopez]

Hello!, i had the same problem but now it is all ok!!!

I made this:

1 -Download the quicktime 7 of this link—> https://support.apple.com/kb/DL923?viewlocale=es_ES

2- Install it with the after effects closed

3- Restart the computer

And now without the “error output module” and making render in mov, xdcam…etc!!!!

[Zack Wilson]

I, too, have the Export Module failure issue and tried many of the different solutions presented here and on other websites, but to no avail. Then I tried something random and surprisingly it worked.

I narrowed the cause down to VC Reflect on four different text assets (there are other text assets with VC Reflect that weren’t causing the error for some reason). I changed the affected layers to be 3-D (everything is 2-D in this project) and those layers finally started rendering.

Does this work for anyone else?

[John Jackowiak]

We ran into this problem with our systems at work when we upgraded to Mac OSX Lion. We are currently running After Effects CS5, and we had never had this problem before the upgrade. Image sequences could be rendered out, but no QuickTime files with any sort of codec.

It seems to be a QT codec issue. However, we didn’t filter it down to a specific codec. We resolved the issue by doing the following. This was recommended by Adobe Support. (This may be different with PC versions).

1. Download “AppCleaner” (Free Software)

2. Delete the newest version of QT.

3. Manually delete all QuickTime Codecs in:

Go->Computer->Macintosh HD->Library->QuickTime

4. Download QuickTime version 7.6.6 for Snow Leopard.

5. Install version 7.6.6 (This will reinstall your codecs as well)

6. Restart your Mac.

7. Hold down the “Option Key” and go to:

Go->Library->Preferences->Adobe->After Effects

8. Inside should be a folder called “10.0” Change the folder name to “new”.

9. Hold down the “Shift” key, and open After Effects,

You should now be able to render out QuickTime files again.

Hope that helps some of you.

[Rob Frenette]

I was having a similar problem. I couldn’t render anything in the render queue using quicktime. Instead I went to Composition > Make Movie, and the problem was solved.

[David Cabestany]

same error here. i updated to the latest optical flares version and the issue went away.

[Laura Hill]

RSMB gave me this error.

Applied the effect to a precomped version of my layer, render worked like a charm.
Look for recently applied plugins & presets… toggle off and try, try again!

[Garrett Gibbons]

Been having this same error, and it’s clearly associated with VC Twitch. I’m in 11.0 (AE CS6), running QT 7.6.6 on Mac. I deleted QT codecs, reinstalled QT 7.6.6 + codecs, trashed preferences, repaired disk permissions, restarted a few times, tried placing the sequence in the render queue before a relaunch, tried rendering to TIFF sequence, ProRes, Lossless, etc… and all failed.

My conclusions:
• Nobody knows what that error actually means
• It amuses me that “reinstall windows” is viewed as an acceptable troubleshooting step

http://www.garrettgibbons.com

[Matthew Johnson]

Hey guys, ive had this problem happen to me as well, ive found that just restarting AE will work it out most of the time.

[Mark Jores]

I also had mysterious render failures once the timeline hit a certain frame. I tracked the offenders down by soloing layers & hitting preview until I found the ones that fell over at the failure point. It was VC reflect on collapsed layers. Just had to uncollapse them & all worked again