After Effects: Animation Problem

[PaulRichard]

Hi there,

 

I was working on an animation, everything was going smoothly...animation done...rendering...exporting....then when I played the exported file, a white circle appears out of nowhere in the middle top of the canvas. I tried to search through the layers hoping to find it, but no success. I have no idea where that circle comes from  and I'm out of ideas. If anyone has time to look through my AE project and find a solution I'd be very grateful.

 

Here's a link to the animation: 

 

 

I'll attach the project file to this topic.

 

Thank you in advance!

Check In.aep

[thatguyjerry]

it looks like its keyed in? Im not in front of my main system right now so I cant check the file, but it looks to me like youve got a stray keyframe somewhere in your mapping.

[PaulRichard]

@thatguyjerry  My concern is that the circle is not appearing when i'm in After Effects, it only shows up after exporting(in the .avi file). Keyframes look fine.

[ALwin]

Try exporting to H.264.

[thatguyjerry]

is that your background color or a solid color layer? if its your background color add the latter, or try to add an additional solid color layer between the color layer you already have and the animation. Let me know how that goes

[PaulRichard]

 

@ALwin  I have AE CC and apparently you can't export to h.264 anymore...

[ALwin]

2 minutes ago, PaulRichard said:

 

@ALwin  I have AE CC and apparently you can't export to h.264 anymore...

Oh, then try Quicktime.

[PaulRichard]

1 minute ago, ALwin said:

Oh really?

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1236600

[PaulRichard]

8 minutes ago, thatguyjerry said:

is that your background color or a solid color layer? if its your background color add the latter, or try to add an additional solid color layer between the color layer you already have and the animation. Let me know how that goes

I was working on a background color. Tried your suggestion, but no success eitherway.

[thatguyjerry]

3 minutes ago, PaulRichard said:

I was working on a background color. Tried your suggestion, but no success eitherway.

Keep the solid color layer. Try and disable certain layers for export to isolate the problem I guess

[ALwin]

Ok even rendering out in AE's render queue, using Quicktime that circle still appears.  So it has nothing to do with the codec you use.

 

I did a check by rendering out each layer one by one, if I render out the bottom most layer (Checkin) I see that circle appearing.  Something you have done on that layer's shape is keeping the circle.

 

That ballon shape is supposed to collapse into a circle before disappearing right?  I think when it finishes collapsing, it doesn't fully disappear.

[PaulRichard]

@ALwin @thatguyjerry  Alright, you were right, just found out that the Checkin layer was the problem. The trim path was causing problems. I solved it. Thank you guys!

[thatguyjerry]

4 minutes ago, PaulRichard said:

@ALwin @thatguyjerry  Alright, you were right, just found out that the Checkin layer was the problem. The trim path was causing problems. I solved it. Thank you guys!

glad to hear it!