[James Poulakos]

Yep, this question and its answers helped me today, too. Thanks, Dave, et al!

BTW, it helps speed my work to know these 2 shortcuts for changing keyframe interpolation:

Set a key’s interpolation (so you can get bezier handles): Ctrl+Alt+K / Command+Option+K (Mac)

TOGGLE a key to Hold or Auto Bezier: Ctrl+Alt+H / Command+Option+H (Mac)

Also, I found it helpful, if I separate the dimensions, to just get rid of any dimension I wasn’t animating. I’m making an object bounce vertically right now, so I got rid of the X position keys by clicking the little stopwatch for X.

[James Poulakos]

This happened to me with CS6 today, and Dave’s tip fixed the prob for me.

I had tried rendering to different formats, & I also tried restarting AE, too. The resulting video files seemed to have audio (and in Quicktime, the little audio meters were even jumping), but I turned up the volume all the way. I still heard no sound.

Once I found this tip, I converted my voice track from MP3 (which I had originally exported straight from GarageBand) to AIFF (again using GarageBand). Then I re-rendered in After Effects CS6.

Now, when I export to the format of my choice, audio is there.

Thanks to Dave! Since there was no error message, and it was supposed to work, I’d never have known what wasn’t working unless I found a tip like Dave’s, and a forum like this one.

[James Poulakos]

Very helpful for me today–thanks Creative Cow members!

I could not find where AE CS6 stored a render log on my Mac. This thread led me to it.

I changed the (default?) option of logging errors only. I can see that option in the Render Queue panel, when I expand the Render Settings for a video in the queue. The panel does not show where the log is stored on a Mac, however. Todd Kopriva’s post appears to be mistaken, at least where AE CS6 on Mac is concerned.

I changed it to Plus Per Frame Info. Now I can make quick render comparisons to help me budget my render time better. Nice!

[James Poulakos]

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Kevin Camp’s answer just helped me, today, with After Effects CS6. I wanted to thank you all, for the question, the answer, and the forum where we can share them. Thanks! (and thanks to the site’s sponsors and advertisers).

The workaround using layer index numbers really helps. Now that I’ve seen that snippet of code, I bet I’ll find other uses for it, too.

[James Poulakos]

Same thing happened to me today, using AE CS6.

I don’t have any third-party effects plugins. AE wouldn’t render anything I tried, including PSD or TIFF frame sequence.

Anyway, this is what seems to have fixed it for me: I restarted AE, went to Preferences, and disabled the Render Multiple Frames option completely.

It had been working, with that option enabled, just the day before.

[James Poulakos]

I’ve tried doing this, that is, exporting from QT Pro without recompressing, just to get the “Fast Start Compressed Header” feature included in the file…. but QT Pro greys out the OK button unless I check either Video or Audio.

In other words, QT Pro is not letting me export a file with only the “Prepare for Internet Streaming” box checked.

This is as of Monday, March 7, 2011, using QuickTime Version 7.6.6 (1710) on Mac OSX 10.6.5… I assume QT is QT Pro on this machine because I’m a Pro Apps user with FCP, Compressor and Motion licensed and installed.

I’m not so much looking for a solution as sharing the info that this isn’t possible… though a solution would be cool!

(Hmm, I did a 3-month search, and this thread from 2008 was the top hit. It seems relevant, so I posted here)

[James Poulakos]

Colin, did that work for you (trashing prefs)?

It didn’t work for me. The same thing’s been happening to me for months. I trashed Compressor prefs, but it still happened.

I think I found a clue: it happens at the same update time interval that’s in Batch Monitor’s preferences. So I can avoid it by not opening Batch Monitor (uncheck that box in Compressor’s prefs), or by setting Batch Monitor to update at a longer interval.

I think I’ll go with the first option till I can find a better solution.

[James Poulakos]

Nice! Thanks. I also have a suggestion.

I zoom in/out on the timeline. Just one poke at the zoom in, or zoom out, keystroke re-centers the playhead, without stopping playback.

Since I zoom in/out so often, I assigned the – and the = keys to Zoom Out and Zoom In.

It’s mainly because of that keyboard assignment zooming in/out is easy enough to use just for keeping the playhead on my screen.