Impossible render problem … well improbable anyway

[Darby Edelen]

It’s really difficult to tell what’s going on in the provided mp4. At first glance it looks like everything is stopping. Are you using any time based effects or time remapping?

Are you rendering to an mp4 directly from AE? Try rendering to another format if so. I like image sequences.

Darby Edelen

[Roger Burton]

Thanks Darby … yes the screen grab wasn’t very helpful – here’s a project if you can find time to have a quick look:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12879319/crawler.aep

On my system the render stops at about 3.24

I have found a way round the problem but am mystified as to why the animation stops before the end of the render … anyone any thoughts please ?

Roger

[Matthew Keane]

Hi,

Unlikely to be your problem, but the only time I’ve seen AE (CS6 in my case) consistently stop a render before the specified render time without reporting an error was when a comp was originally created through Dynamic Link from Premiere. i.e. In Premiere I had clicked on a clip that was 3:24, used Dynamic Link to create an AE comp and got to work. All future renders from AE (even of other comps created independently in AE with different durations) would stop at 3:24 as long as Premiere was open at the same time. Closing Premiere, and opening only AE got things back to normal.

Matthew Keane

Freelancer based in Paris, France
– Motion Graphics, Video Editing & Effects, Watchout Programming & Live Operation.

[Roger Burton]

Thanks Matthew … sadly not the problem in this case, the render actually doesn’ t stop at 3.24 just the movement of the crawler, it stops and the render continues …. go figure.

Thanks again Roger