Render Queue Jumps to Comp Window while Rendering

[Michael Szalapski]

You are using 13.8.1, right?

– The Great Szalam
(The \’Great\’ stands for \’Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble\’)

No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

[Eddy Elliott]

Hi Max,

It’s a pain for sure. But, one way to avoid this happening is to command (or ctrl) drag the render queue tab to tear it off so the window floats. Then, when you press render, it won’t jump to the composition, and you’ll have access to the render queue.

[Max Wolkowitz]

I’m in 13.7.16. Has this been fixed in the updates? Thanks for the quick response!

[Max Wolkowitz]

Thanks for the response. I’m not really looking for a workaround. I know most of them (used to keep my Render Queue window in my timeline panel) and most of them still require keeping Caps Lock on to keep from eating up my RAM and keeping me from using other applications. Just curious to know if anyone knows why this happens inconsistently and if there’s a permanent change to fix it.

[Joey Trimmer]

I’m still getting this incredibly annoying issue even after updating to 14.0.1.5 on OSX

Is there no true fix to this still?

\”I\’m your density. I mean, your destiny.\” – George McFly

[Gates Bradley]

One year later, this is still an issue. It’s been a problem for me for at least that long, I only just now decided to do something about it. I wanted to keep this thread alive because this is frustrating – if I want to cancel a render, for example, I no longer can.

At this point I guess we are to consider this a bug and not a feature to be corrected?

[Jeff Webb]

Hello, I’ve only had this issue on a Mac Pro using 3 monitors in High Sierra with After Effects CC 2018. I use Windows 10 at home with 2 monitors and AE CC 2018 with no issue.

My solution has been to close all other tabs except for the Render Queue, before hitting Render. This is not optimal, but it allows you to at least view the Render Queue and allow it to pause or stop if you realize there is an issue with your render or need to shut down. Otherwise, my Render Queue is hidden by a different comp, and the error requires that I force quit my project.

I cannot tell what causes this issue, but at one point after updating my OS, I was not able to right click on objects in my left most monitor in the AE project panel until I checked a box in the System Prefs>Mission Control – checkbox for “When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application”. I think it could be related to how windows are displayed across multiple monitors? I hope this helps.

[Rogelio Folgueras]

Hi!
I have same problem, I will try the “put the render queue tab floating” in order to keep it on sight.

In meanwhile people with this problem can try cmd + . in order to stop the render instead of force quit the program, it worked for me, thought I don’t know the shortcut to pause it, too new with AE.

Thanks & regards

[Ryan Paterson]

Found a pretty simple workaroud- I keep the Render Queue docked as a tab in my Project panel directly to the left of Comp Viewer. When I go to render I make the RQ full screen with the ‘~’ key (it’s too small otherwise anyway) and when I hit render it doesnt jump anywhere and doesn’t show the comp rendering. Easy!

[Damien Ivan]

Still happening in both CC 18 and 19. Really annoying. Thanks for the workarounds.

Damien Ivan
Animation + Video
Just a dude tryin to be awesome.
damienivan.com