Red Blinking on RAM preview and Render

[Steven Santiago]

All i know about AE is that its
2015.3 release
version 13.8.0.144
6% used of 3.9GB

and im also running windows 10. I know nothing more about this computer. The red flashings take up the whole screen at random frames of the video. there really isnt a pattern to it. it happens when i import a video file to after effects. and it flashes the same way when i render the composition. ive seen other questions similar but they dont really cover my problem. It happens no matter how many layers i have and i just started having this problem after i recently updated it.

[Daniel Waldron]

It’s been happening in After Effects and Premiere for years. There are different explanations for it that may or may not make sense, but usually transcoding the footage seems to solve it.

[Steven Santiago]

i dont know what that means. can you explain how to do that

[Daniel Waldron]

You can convert your footage to another format such as ProRes or DNxHD using Adobe Media Encoder and import the new version into After Effects.

[Walter Soyka]

Red frames often indicate a decoder failure:
https://helpx.adobe.com/media-encoder/kb/red-frames.html

Walter Soyka
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[Michael Szalapski]

There is a bug.
There is a temporary fix you can do yourself.

See this post [link]

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[Daniel Jacobson]

Hey so does this also work in media encoder? I was having the issue in media encoder also…