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Mystery frame
I have a simple project that I’ve built in After Effect; it includes just three layers. When I render out the project one of the layers disappears at one point — just for one single frame. Going back to the comp, I checked that section of the comp very carefully, frame-by-frame, and that layer looks fine in the preview window — its image never disappears. I also checked the layer by itself, frame-by-frame, and it shows no problems. But when I render the project, that single frame is missing. Any thoughts?
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If your layers are 3D layers, check your composition is using the Adavanced 3D Render plugin, not the Standard 3D plugin. If you still have the problem, try and seperate layers slightly in 3D space to prevent them “overlapping”.
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I remember having a problem like that once. It was an effect on a layer… I don’t remember if I just toggled it on/off or if I had to delete it and reapply it, but it needed some “refresh”.
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Had something similiar to that, and reloading the footage is what solved the problem.
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Hi all. In answer to the question above, I am rendering fields — to the Media 100 codec. Usually works just fine. I finally dumped the problematic layer and brought in another copy of it and was able to render successfully. But I’m doing a series of these things and the same problem has cropped up on about 50% of them. Wish I could figure it out. Thanks for the thoughts.
Lee
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Thanks. I’m not working in 3D but your comment about checking carefuly for overlaps, etc. is a good one. Unfortunately it didn’t solve this problem.
Lee
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Pretty hard to nail this one without actually seeing it. If you render without fields does the problem go away? How about trying a different codec? Did you try deleting your preferences and restarting?
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
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OK… ‘fess up time:
I always render to fields but I must have hit a wrong buttom at some point and the render module got switched to frames. My mistake. You’d think I would have noticed that but I was so busy looking for other fixes that I overlooked it. Back to fields now and things seems to be going well. I haven’t given it a full test but I’m optimistic.
Thanks.
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I had a feeling it was fields versus frames that was causing this 🙂
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au
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