Video Lags After I Render It

When ever I open up the video that I finished rendering, it is choppy and stutters every 2 seconds. I can't figure why. I just bought After Effects today and I have no idea how it works.

The default rendering is lossless which was never designed for playback. After Effects is a tremendously complex application with nearly endless possibilities and you can't just jump in and start using it without spending a little a little time learning the basics.
How to add effects and motion graphics in After Effects | Adobe After Effects CC tutorials
The third section is on rendering and it's just the start.

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Lyric video lag after export

My student made a lyric video in after effects, used keyframes, several layers within several compositions which were then converted into one composition and layered with the song. Once he exported to .mov there were several problems. Music was not heard, video lagged, video duration was cut, and combination of all three problems with each export with various setting changes. Can you please tell us how to export with correct settings to avoid all of these problems in the end .mov?
Thanks,
Troubled Teacher, Stressed Teen

It sounds like a few things are going on:
I'll assume the term "lag" more accurately means, "it's playing in fits & starts -- it's not smooth playback". Here's why:
FAQ: Why is my output file huge, and why doesn't it play back smoothly in a media player?
In there, you'll also find a link to make files that play back smoothly.
Why is there no audio? Probably because the audio check box wasn't checked in the Output Module in the AE Render Queue. Here's more:
FAQ: Why is there no audio (sound) in my output file?
And the most common reason for a too-short file is an incorrectly-adjusted Work Area in the comp being rendered. To fix this, open the comp. Hit the Home key. Hit the b key to set the beginning of the Work Area. Hit the End key. Hit the n key to set the end of the work area. The Work Area is now the same as the comp's duration. If the comp is longer than the intended file length, just adjust the end of the work area.

My HD video lagging after rendering it.

I have a source video file in m2ts format with resolution 1440x1080 that I edited in another software and then I load it into AE to applied some effects and when I am rendering it and play it in a media player it lagging thru almost the hole video. The only thing that doesn´t lagg is the effects created in AE. What is the problem to all that? My computer is new with 6gb ram, ati radeon 2gb ram dual gpu and CPU Intel i7. Im kind a new to render in HD and has never rendering any HD projects yet (this is my first). I also tried different HD ouput format but it doesn´t help. The format I want to have it in is MPEG2 Blu-Ray. I am useing AE CS4.

Well, to what specs are you rendering? I hope you are not using the default Lossless output, which is uncompressed. Even the juiciest computer can't play that in realtime. The number of effects etc. don't have anything to do with that. M2TS is compressed, so naturally you will have to chose a compressed format as well to get the same playback performance. MPEG-2 BD would definitely work and AE spits it out (full version, noit trial), so try that. For desktop review, use H.264 or WMW or a compressed Quicktime format.
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Journe air 1000 - video playback lags after converting to mjpeg

Hello,
i have bought 2 journe air 1000 photo frames, and i'm trying to play video on them.
To convert the video files i'm using the provided software that was in CD that came with the frame - ArcSoft video converter 2.5, which converts the video to a MJPEG avi file with quite poor sound quality.
And the main problem is that, video starts to lag after some time, there is no sync between sound and video, and eventually it crashes.
Also some video track just crash straight away..
I have 2 files, one is 30 mins long and the other is 10 min long, both experience the same symptoms, on both frames.
I have tried to use newer arcsoft converter software, different converters, tried splitting the files to smaller segments but to no avail...
It just like there's some buffer in the frames that fill's up and the video starts to lag.. anyone experienced that?
Maybe there's some other codec that this frame supports except mjepg? i have tried some (mpeg4, divx, xvid) but it didnt work, it doesn't even play mjpeg mov's, just avi's...
Any ideas how to fix it?
thanks.

yes i have tried loads of other formats: with mjpeg movs i get some flickering sound and black screen, and with all the others (h264, mp4 and so on) - "decode failed" and i haven't found anywhere in specs that it supports anything else except mjpeg avi..
maybe some specific setting need to be applied to other formats? has anyone else succeeded in playing other formats? what settings did you use?
thanks

Video pixilating after render on timeline...help me please.

Hello,
I have been trying to find out how to stop my videos from pixilating after I render them, the video looks fine when I view them, but once I transfer to the timeline and render it, it becomes pixilated...mostly around the edges of the people in the video, you see it a lot with movement. How can I stop this from happening...frustrating.
Thank you,

That would be your problem. You are putting an HD clip of frame size 1280x720 into a DV sequence with frame size 720x480. When FCE renders the video, it conforms it to the sequence settings and makes your video fit in the 720x480 frame, thus sacrificing quality.
What you should do first is to change your Easy Setup to 1280x720 (File > Easy Setup). Then, create a new sequence. This sequence will automatically match your Easy Setup and have a frame size of 1280x720.
You then have two choices. As H.264 is not a supported codec for FCE, you will have to render it in the sequence to make it editable. You can either simply place your clips into the sequence and render them out, or you can use the free [MPEG Streamclip|http://www.squared5.com> to first convert your clips to the supported Apple Intermediate Codec. If you convert your clips first, they can be edited natively in your sequence without the need for rendering.
Whichever way you decide to do things, editing your clips in a 1280x720 sequence should solve the major quality issue.

Trouble with video quality AFTER render

why is it that AFTER i render out what is on my timeline (command - r) does my canvas view look all rough and not nearly as smooth as before i rendered it out?
the situation: i am rendering out comps from after effects 6.5 pro. the quicktimes look beautiful when i play them in qt and they look fine when i import them into FCP 5.0.4 in the viewer window. then i render it out (command - r) and what shows up is a rough, very unsmooth version. my first thought was that if i exported it as an animation at millions of colors+, it would look fine, but no luck.
my view in my canvas and viewer windows is set to 100%.
anyone?
thank you!

Go to "Sequence"-"Settings" check the Frame Rate and Resolution settings.

Video Lagging/Choppy videos on Macbook Pro

Hello,
I am having a problem while watching videos online: video lagging/choppy videos. Sometimes the video is stuck in a certain frame although I still have the sound on the background; sometimes the video slows down completely (frame+sound). It started around one month ago, and exists in several different websites, I couldn`t solve it by myself. I am not very good with computers. I tried to uninstall/reinstall flash player, as well as disable hardware acceleration, and the problem is still there. Also somedays the videos are working fine, and somedays they are all bad independent of websites. I tried to use different browsers (chrome/firefox/safari), but the problem persists.
I am using a Macbook Pro and bought it in the beginning of January this year (right now it is running OS X 10.7.4) with flash player version 11.2.202.235.
I would very much appreciate if you can help me.
Thanks.

mellskucukoglu, uninstall all adobe products then install Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, Adobe Air, Adobe Shockwave Player. Make sure to select the operating system correctly behind the link. Turn off your antivirus till you finish installation as suggested below the webpage. If it still doesn't work check for OS X 10.7.4 updates.
If it still doesn't work then go for Adobe Live chat in this link http://www.adobe.com/support/chat/ivrchat.html . Sometimes they are busy. If they can't help. Think about any changes that you made before this issue like installaling any new apps. Uninstall them. If it still doesn't work then install Adobe Flash Professional CS 6. After installing check for adobe updates and update them all. It should work at this point. If not ,watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7YUs95jdQk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v8bBX1s1sY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dBO5Wz4bsg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc0uQsHMyCU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQKnUEbhrM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP2I0Hfy1Cg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE1yKm-v87g
If the issue persists switch to Windows XP SP3 or Windows 7.

Very poor video quality after transcoding in Adobe Encore CS5.1

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I have very poor video quality after transcoding the video file (MPEG) in Adobe Encore CS5.1. Below you see my used settings in my filmproject.
The problem exists after transcoding in Adobe Encore CS5.1. I checked all steps and found out that there is no problem until transcoding. My exported file in MPEG has very good video and audio quality.
Facts:
1. Camcorder: Panasonic AG-AC160AEJ
Operating System : Windows 7, 64 Bit, Ultimate edition
Source files: MTS files
Recording settings (clip settings):
Type: MPEG Movie
Image Size: 1920 x 1080
Frame Rate: 25,00
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - compressed - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,0
2. Sequence settings in Premiere Pro
Sequence was created from Clip directly with settings above.
3. Exporting settings in Adobe Premiere Pro:
Match sequence settings was activated. Now other changes were set.
4. Exported File:
Video
Image Size: 1920 x 1080
Data Transfer Rate: 25920 kBit / s
Frame rate: 25
Audio:
Bit rate: 384 kBit / s
Channels: 2 (stereo)
Frequence: 48 kHz
5. Transcoding settings in Adobe Encore:
I used different transcoding settings such as automatic DVD Transcoding, CBR and VBR.I also set “use maximum render quality”. But all results were always the same: very poor quality.
Why does the encore transcoding cause such bad video quality?
How can I solve this problem?
Please help me soon.
Best regards.

Hi Ann,
1) I did not only „Automatic (based on source)“ options in my tests, but also many other customized options.
The results are very poor. I have done a new test with the following settings. The result is also poor:
Download link: http://www.klavierlehrer-bayern.de/download/test_mpeg2dvd_1.m2v
Export Settings:
Format: MPEG2-DVD
Preset: Custom
Codec: MainConcept MPEG Video, Quality: 5
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Field Order: Upper
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Automatic (based on source)
Render at Maximum Rate: [active]
Bitrate Encoding: VBR, 2 pass
Minimum Bitrate (Mbps): 5
Target Bitrate (Mbps): 9
Maximum Bitrate (Mbps): 9
GOP Settings
M Frames: 4
N Frames: 12
Use Maximum Render Quality: [active]
Multiplexer: None
2) Why shouldn’t I use the “Match Sequence Settings” in exporting? Because of the big output file size?
I used it and the results are very good as I expected:
Download link: http://www.klavierlehrer-bayern.de/download/test_MatchSequenceSettings.mpeg
Export Settings
Match Sequence Settings [selected]
1920 x 1080, 25 fps, Upper, Quality 50
User Maximum Render Quality: [active]
3) I tried also Dynamic Link in PremierePro (to Encore).
The results are also poor.
4) I will test also LagarithLoslessCodec and frameserving +DGMPGDec. But the video is vertical long drawn-ot.
I think I did not use it correctly.
Regards

Video lags behind sound in YouTube app

I am using the iPad mini with the latest iOS update (7.1.1). When I use the YouTube app, the video lags behind the sound. What I mean by that is that I play the video for a few seconds and the lip-synching will be off. If I then pause the video, I can see the video catching up to the sound. However, the video will quickly begin to lag behind the sound again. This makes watching anything with dialogue pretty awful.

The same issue is happening with the Netflix app. Also, apps like Facebook and Safari seem to be crashing much more frequently for me after this update.

Bought a Quadro K2000 Video Card, After Effects CC Won't detect it?

I recently bought a Quadro K2000 for some simple 1080p video editing and rendering. Now there comes the problem, It seems like After Effects is not detecting the card, CUDA is enabled and the card is supported in the list. I have tried many solutions but unfortunately I still have this problem. Also with rendering a video my CPU still takes all the load instead of the GPU, therefore it goes really slow, 5 minute render takes up to 2+ hours. I bought this video card so my render also got quicker but it seems like After Effects just won't use the GPU for rendering. I have Ray tracing 3D rendering on.
Can someone please explain to me why my Quadro K2000 is not used for rendering the videos but instead it still uses my CPU. I hope the $500 was no waste of money for this card.
Thanks in advance,
Sjoerd

You have given us little information to go by. What exact version of After Effects? What operating system. Show a screenshot of your GPU Information dialog box in After Effects.
The Quadro K2000 was added to the list of cards tested and supported for use by the ray-traced 3D renderer in this version:
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/09/after-effects-cc-12-1-whats-new-and-changed.ht ml

I CANT PLAY MY VIDEOS RIGHT AFTER SOME EFFECTS ON THE VIDEO premiere pro cs4

HEY
I can t play videos right after some effects it freeze for like half a second then it stops by its self and I have to enter play again its like a LAG PLEASE HELP I have xp I just bought yesterday with computer and all the requirements are done with higher speed and stronger.

Read suggestion in post above. But main problem with that is the video card and disks setup, and XP is not very good choice for CS4 because of the memory limitations. You would be better of with Vista 32 bit or even better 64 Bit system.

Using Adobe Media Encoder to create H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV videos from After Effects - 6/23/14

Very disappointed with this choice. I will definitely be seeking to uninstall this version and go back a version or two. Two many extra steps to export an mp4 now. And now we also have to wait longer for a mp4 to render and can't take advantage of the machine's hardware? You guys fighting mp4 as a standard, forcing us to an additional product, or what? I'll be sharing my extreme disappoint with this 'upgrade' with the rest of the developers at work and who just had it installed. I'm not seeing this being too popular opn social media either. Seems like you only did what was best for you.Thanks for showing us who's boss.

Frank VA wrote:
And now we also have to wait longer for a mp4 to render and can't take advantage of the machine's hardware?
Not necessarily. You can render an intermediate codec with AE's render queue (thus using all of AE's power to render) and then drop that file into the Adobe Media Encoder.
This was the workflow I've always used - even when AE could encode with MP4. Why? Well, because AE sucked at MP4 encoding. You couldn't even do multipass endoding with it!
This is a useful workflow in a few ways:
1. You have an archive-quality file to come back to in the future.
2. You can use AE's full power to render.
3. You can use AME's superior encoding capabilities.
4. You can tweak your compression settings and try various encoding parameters to improve the quality while decreasing the bitrate of your product WITHOUT having to re-render the AE comp every time you try since you're working off of the intermediate file. I mean, imagine a comp with several 3d layers, depth of field, shadows from multiple lights, and 250,000 particles from Particular. What if you made an MP4 and then the client needed a smaller file size or the MP4 you made was too heavily compressed and you needed higher quality? I don't know about you, but I'd much rather only render that 18-hour monster once.
This workflow actually saves time for many people.
And, in any workflow, this produces a better product.
Again, this is what I did even when AE could encode MP4's.
Frank VA wrote:
You guys fighting mp4 as a standard, forcing us to an additional product, or what?
They aren't fighting MP4 as a standard, in fact, when Adobe folks pop in here and answer questions, that's often their recommendation for delivery codec.
Frank VA wrote:
Seems like you only did what was best for you. Thanks for showing us who's boss.
Listen, I understand your frustration. Knocking out a quick compressed file from AE for client review is handy.
However, maintaining the h.264 encoding in AE took up development time. There are only so many person-hours per week for the (relatively tiny) AE team to spend on building each version of AE.
I never liked AE's h.264 encoding - AME has always done a superior job. Since we have AME to do our encoding, I would rather the AE team focus their effort on improving AE as a compositing and motion graphics tool rather than as an encoding tool.
Again, I get the frustration. I can see where it feels like they are doing what's good for them and not us, but I think, in the long run, this way is better for us. Right now, the majority of the AE team is working on making AE faster to work with and faster to render. The sooner we get a relatively bug-free version of that, the better! (Especially for folks on Mac OSX Yosemite who can't RAM preview smoothly in any version of AE).
And at least the After Effects team has been very transparent about things - for example, this blog post talks about their reasoning: using Adobe Media Encoder to create H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV videos from After Effects

Video Sticks After Rendering

Good evening all,
Hoping one of the many pros here can assist me with a new problem I've encountered?
I have been using my copy of Final Cut Express 4 HD heavily for a couple of years on an Early 2008 Mac Pro (I believe OS 10.9.4) without any trouble. I have since upgraded to the latest Mac Pro (black cylinder) with Yosemite OS installed.
Today, I loaded Final Cut Express 4 HD without any trouble however I noticed the general interface performance was slightly sluggish. Despite that, I imported several GoPro video files and previewed, which played fine. However, after dropping into the timeline and rendering, the footage would play audio fine but the video would stick on two frames going back and forth like a terrible GIF.
Does anybody know how I can fix this, or if this is due to being incompatible with Yosemite? Hope it can be fixed, as iMovie is terrible!!!

The Viewer window can play just about anything - much like playing in QuickTime Pro. However, once you drop a clip on the Timeline, if it doesn't match the Sequence settings there will be problems ... and as you found out, sometimes even after you render.
I usually use Compressor, MPEG Streamclip or QuickTIme Pro to convert.
-DH

Video "Hits" After Rendering

After I render a piece of my timeline and look at it on our studio monitor, I'm getting a good amount of what I would call "hits" in the video, like hits you would see on an old tape that's past its prime. The timeline has a number of graphics layered on top of one another with text and moving jpegs, with a broadcast safe filter on everything.
I've had weird things appear after rendering before, but they've always gone away after rerendering. This time they're pretty consistently in the same spots.
Any ideas about settings I should look into or other work arounds?

I have seen this on several occasions and there seem to be a few causes.
possibilities:
1) you are using the Broadcast safe filter, if the clipping on your images are extreme you get strange green and white artifacts after rendering. Try using the 3-way color corrector to bring levels down before applying the BS filter. Or if the artifacts are occurring on graphics, make adjustments in Photoshop (or whatever program you created the graphics in) and bring them back into FCP. A lot of people create graphics using the full range of RGB colors and luminance values. NTSC video does not have as large of a chroma and luma range as RGB.
2) You are working in an uncompressed 10-bit sequence and applying filters that are not compatible (for lack of a better word) with Apple's 10-bit codec. (Or you are just getting random render problems in 10-bit). I have had many, many render issues in 10-bit that went away by switching to 8-bit. In most cases you can't really see much difference between 8 and 10 bit video anyway, so why go through the hassle or working with it. If you are doing a lot of green screen work, you may want to reevaluate this argument.
I'm sure there are other possible causes for the problems you're experiencing, but these are the ones I've run into in the past.
Graeme Nattress knows a lot about 10-bit issues in FCP, perhaps he can chime in with some suggestions/explanations.

After Effects Render Engine Loads project over network then closes? Any advice please?

Hi,
I have just started trying to use the After Effects Render Engine over the network. I have followed some online video's where you have to set the main project computer as Multi Machine output etc and then collect folder to a network drive then go to the node computers and open Render Engine and go to watch folder and point it to your files on the network drive. It finds the project and opens it but then instantly closes it and then continues to search.
Where is this please?
Also I can't seem to tick "Skip Existing Files" in my project
Kind Regards
Joe

There is no built-in network render features in AE, so we probably need to see that video you are referring to.
A wild guess though, is that you are trying to render a video file, instead of an image sequence. "Skip Existing Files" only works with sequences. Anyway there is, to my knowledge, no way to make several machines write to the same video file. But you can start the project rendering an image sequence, from multiple computers, to the same network folder, and then use the "Skip Existing Files" feature to prevent overwriting the frames.

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