Unless I am missing something, your response was blank.

Thank you for your offer. Although I’m not sure what you’re asking. A video screen recording showing nothing happening?

Please clarify and I will make sure to check back so it isn’t months between messages.

Thank you.

This sounds right, but if within the Preview Info Panel you disable video and preview only audio, you get an instant, quick, real- time preview. At least on mine.

I am an experienced AE user. And I am completely flummoxed by the Preview Functionality.

Issue 1:

Here I sit with a timeline containing one piece of Pro-Res422 pre-rendered video, one piece of WAV audio and nothing else. No adjustment layers. No effects. No layer styles. No motion blur. Nothing.

I can grab the playhead with my mouse and…

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I appreciate the reply.

Yes, I am aware of doing it the way you described, however as I was able to do it through ME just yesterday, it seems like it must be an easy fix or something I am overlooking.

Looking forward to seeing if anyone else has any insight.

ISSUE #1:

I am rendering an AE project in Media Encoder, using ProRes422 Codec and before starting the render I check all the parameters. Render size is 3840×2160 (see first image).

But when I start the render, looking in the preview window, it shows only the frame as a tiny part in the upper left corner of the total frame. I have manually set the…

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Thank you.

I did have a breakthrough yesterday as I literally scrolled frame-by-frame through the general part of the converted project identified in the error log, and found a single frame that just appeared gray. I eliminated this frame and the project rendered as it should.

The question now becomes, why does AE, upon conversion, consistently…

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Thanks for the response. I will give it a go.

Unless I am missing something, the ability to change or choose a render engine has been removed. The renderer box is there, but it is greyed-out and clicking it produces no drop down options like it did in the past. I had looked this up and found the following:

“In recent versions of Adobe Media Encoder, the ability to directly change the render…

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I worked in Adbobe After Effects 2020 for years and therefore have dozens upon dozens of projects from that version.

I now have upgraded to AE 2025 and I am finding very consistently that when I open a project that was created in AE 2020, when I try to render the project through Media Encoder, there is always an error (“Unable to produce frame”) at…

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I discovered it the moment after I posted the above question.

In case it helps someone else, when recording the action, instead of pressing the right arrow (or Pg Dwn) to advance to the next frame, instead hit the Next Frame button on the timeline controls (the arrow button to the right of the Play button).

I am trying to record an Action to perform a tedious job on a video. The action is simple, Select with magic wand, feather selection, delete, go to next frame.

The reason the last step, go to next frame, is needed is so that when I hit the F-Key to run the action, it runs and goes to the next frame, ready to hit the F-Key again. So I can just hit…

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Thanks for your reply. I will try that.

I have seen all the questions and answers about the Eyeball Switch being missing and the answer being about “…right click next to ‘layer name’, then ‘Columns’ > ‘AV Features’…”

But I have just a single video layer that has no eyeball switch. It’s also missing the FX, Mode, Trackmat and other boxes.

I have Purged Memory and Disk Cache. I have…

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Thanks !

linear(temp,10,100,90,100);

Don’t you think if you explained what those numbers in the parenthesis represent it would be more helpful, since these answers don’t just help the OP but anyone who finds this forum while searching for how to solve their own similar problem.

Teach a man to fish…..you know?

Converted footage to ProRes and still happens.

I am also very often getting the “Keylight out of memory”. Related?

It’s MPEG-4 Quicktime .mov footage

I am keying out someone in front of a green screen. Looks great except randomly throughout the video there are these darkened, slightly glitchy frames. (see attached pic)

The strange thing is that if I change almost any parameter in Keylight (screen gain, screen matte replace method), the glitch will be corrected for that frame, but then it will…

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I like using the stacked panel groups to move quickly between comps.

I have noted that when selecting a comp, it opens at a predetermined height. I can, of course, use my mouse and drag the panel to be open more. But this selection is not saved and next time I open the comp, it will be back to the default height.

I wonder if there is a way to…

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It is supposed to be visible, of course. Thanks for the fresh pair of eyes, seeing something I looked right at and didn’t see.

I will mark this as SOLVED. Thanks so much!

I can….but I am new to this forum…. is the .ae file useful alone or do I need to attach all of the project files as well?

No, none of the layers that are meant to be seen are set as guide layers.

It’s almost as if there is a second camera, but there isn’t!

-Daniel

Thanks for taking the time to reply! I have to admit that while I have done a lot of projects in AE, I have never dealt with guide layers. I will look into that immediately.

Thanks again!

-Daniel

I have looked at other topics that said they had this problem but they all had some basic error. I cannot find any such basic error in my composition.

– I have one camera

– No layers are shy

– The camera is activated (the eyeball is on)

– The camera is the top layer

When I do a RAM preview, it is correct. When I add to the Render Queue and render, it…

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