Green frames on rendered file

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Have you checked the original footage and the AE timeline at those two points? It could also be dropped frames (during shooting) or single-frame gaps in the timeline.

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[Maëlle Jumel]

Hi, thanks for replying.

No green screen on the timeline and the original footage is fine too. I didn’t actually shoot it, it’s from a video downloaded online.
Do you know what else could be causing the problem?

[Maëlle Jumel]

Hi, thanks for replying.

No green screen on the timeline and the original footage is fine too. I didn’t actually shoot it, it’s from a video downloaded online.
Do you know what else could be causing the problem?

EDIT: I actually just realised (when seeing full resolution because it was in half for preview purposes) that it is like another part of the video is added just on that frame. Same for the two frames that glitch. I’m not sure what to do?

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[Michael Szalapski]

It seems to me like the video is having read errors at that point. It can happen when you’re using MP4s in AE. Try using the Adobe Media Encoder to transcode the original video file to something like Cineform or DNxHD and replace the MP4 in AE with the new file.

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[Maëlle Jumel]

Thank you for this other fix.

I temporarly fixed it by taking screenshots of frames just after and putting them on the green screen frame to render.
I’m currently trying out what you just suggested, although it is weird because on AME the preview screen is red. I’ll wait and see if the output is red too though.

I’ll let you know if it works. Do you think I could also just convert it to another format not via AME?

[Michael Szalapski]

I mean, I only suggested using AME because it comes included with Creative Cloud; if you have other video convestion tools (FFMPEG, Handbrake, etc.) you could try that too.

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[Steve Bentley]

If you are using AE 2018 R15.03 or above, it could also be that the codec the video is in is no longer fully supported. AE 15.00 still supports every codec back to the stoneage I think.
It could also be (if its an mp4 or similar) that what are seeing is the frames in the codec that don’t actually exist. Some compressions “make up” frames where the data isn’t changing enough to warrant one. AE wants discreet frames to play with. Michael’s suggestion of transcoding it is a good one. Make it something that AE can play with properly.

[Brian Murray]

This is an issue with After Effects 15.1. It’s the reason I re-installed 15.0.1. I think it has something to do with footage that may either have drop frames or variable frame rates. A temp fix for me was to re-encode my footage (in my case, iPhone game capture) and make sure it used Constant Frame Rate. This became a problem as I was opening other projects created before 15.1 came out and realizing that they were all now messed up too. Switching back to 15.0.1 for the time being until Adobe resolves this has saved me a lot of grief for the time being.

[Roei Tzoref]

[Brian Murray] “This is an issue with After Effects 15.1. It’s the reason I re-installed 15.0.1. I think it has something to do with footage that may either have drop frames or variable frame rates. “

I had issues with footage with VFR too. red frames. workaround in Ae was to set the VFR mode (interpret footage) to smooth video instead of preserve audio.

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