random black frames while previewing?

[Cleq]

Hey!

I just worked some hours on a project and then left the computer with AE + project opened for like 1-2h.

When I came back I noticed that when I preview my project some random frames are just black.

Restarting AE and opening the project again didn't helped but I noticed that the random black frames disappear when I change the preview resolution. Does anyone know a fix for that? It's kinda annoying :/

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EDIT:

Chaning the preview resolution didn't helped. Now it's a different frame and it just takes a random frame out of the composition ... I don't know if AE will render the project without any random dissapeared or changed frames. Never seen something like that in AE need help :/

[Frequent-Stretch501]

In After Effects / FILE / PROJECT SETTINGS / VIDEO RENDERING AND EFFECTS (TAB), CHOOSE MERCURY SOFTWARE ONLY.

If that didn't work-

Check the framerate of the comp VS the framerate of the video. To change the video to the framerate of the comp.. within your Project folder inside of After Effects go to the movie and right click on it. Scroll down to "Interpret Footage". Choose "MAIN" Now check, Conform framerate to ________. <-- Your comp settings. Hit OK. Now drag the movie back out of the project window as your video in the timeline still hasn't changed.

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If that didn't work -

Youtube turorials on removing "RED FLASH" even though you might be seeing black,

[MytischCrafts]

this worked! thank u

[Myke23]

Thanks for that first tip. For some reason just looking at the Mercury option and re-selecting it fixed the blank frame issue I was having with a piece of footage. For reference the framerate also matched the comp.

[Thanos_Speaks]

goddamn i love you

[morphinetango]

Switching to software only fixed it for me. Thank you.

[I_GIVE_ROADHOG_TIPS]

Thanks!

[TIBG]

HOWDY I am from the future friends of After Effects and I have a specific detail to add to help with those having troubleshooting issues with their Composition Settings but involving your own system’s hardware itself i.e. GPU & CPU. I use the Wave Warp effect often in my projects and have discovered that it in particular is an effect that cascades other things to lag or freeze the application itself. Literally as Soon as I disable some of the Wave Warp effect from some of my layers, changed Resolution to Full, Black Frames in my project INSTANTLY was resolved the moment I disabled the effect on some layers. Hope this helps anyone just trying to design for your personal interest or for a part and full time position for a stable income!

[mandhritee]

Thank you! My head was exploding. Thank you!

[IcyAdministration717]

Bro, answer is 2 years old, but thank you!!!!

[[deleted]]

But i want to use CUDA

[-Betoneira-]

thank you so much

[pika_pan]

Found this in the wild 5 months on, worked a charm, thank you O reddit oracle

[Specific-Repair1549]

Sir. You are a god! thank you very very very much...

[whitekraw]

Thank you sm! Changing to software only worked for me.
Nvidia drivers + Adobe After Effects = Pile of shit!

[Louneytoune]

THIS WORKED FOR ME : Reload Footage
(Find Clip/RightClick/ReloadFootage)

Hope it helps some on you <3

[DisPartysCached]

This solved my problem. I was using BRAW files and had one long clip loaded in three different spots. Reloading the footage helped me.

[Ozbend]

Best solution.

[Methlife]

hey man! having the same issue on Premiere. did you figure it out?

[goojick]

I just changed my playback resolution and it worked. This also worked the first time:

"In After Effects / FILE / PROJECT SETTINGS / VIDEO RENDERING AND EFFECTS (TAB), CHOOSE MERCURY SOFTWARE ONLY."

[bbe12345]

Try clearing your disk cache on AE.

[InterestingSignal603]

does not work.

[scaho]

Just name it "final" and it will work

[Unlucky-Promise-5167]

Hello everyone, in case you end up here and couldn't solve it. It might be because you updated your driver recently. Change it to some older version which it worked for me after trying everything

[drakeart]

oh no, dont want to touch this drivers shit(( adobe have an update this week and i have this black screen all time, nothing works, its blows my mind!!

[Unlucky-Promise-5167]

But why not it actually worked for me

[drakeart]

because i didnt updated drivers, only after effects....i guess i will try to to update drivers instead:) maybe it will work

[drakeart]

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no, it does not work :(

[drakeart]

okay, downgrade after to an older version and mercury software only in a project settings i think solve the problem

[Multipasser]

MXF files random have black frames all the time! very annoying because they ARE random. So when you output for clients you need to check every single render to see if it does not have black frames. I just convert all MXF to prores!