Rendered Comp Oddity

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Hi,

I’m thinking this is an AE issue, but maybe you’ve seen this behavior before.

I’m using Templater 2.9.5 bot to render out a comp made up of 32 layers of sequential comps. My source data determines which layers to turn on or off by swapping in a specific comp with a video layer, or a 2 frame, high framerate, blank comp. This works well in other projects I’ve setup. The current one is not. When I click on Render in the Templater panel, there is a lengthy - sometimes more than 20 seconds before the video begins rendering. Other templates I’ve created take 5 - 10 seconds to start rendering. The end result is a video that appears to just be one comp’s video, with all audio tracks from the other comps meshed together. Seems as if instead of stringing together all of the comps on the timeline sequentially, the final out put has layered them one on top of the other. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot?

Thanks for any help!

Pete

Scratch that. I’ve found the issue!

However, what I am finding is that Templater isn’t rendering out the Target composition I’ve selected. The two comps are:

{{FinAid_AllActiveComp}}
{{FinAid_MainComp}}

I’ve selected {{FinAid_MainComp}} but Templater always renders {{FinAid_AllActiveComp}}. Is the naming scheme for the comps I’ve used problematic?

@pbretz Make sure you don’t have any duplicate comps with the same name. Also, the project should only ever have one double-braced comp name. The double brace notation is the default for when Templater cannot find any target specified in the Preferences or in the data itself. Where are you specifying the target composition?

@ariestav Specifying the default in the Preferences dashboard. I’ve eliminated the {{FinAid_AllActiveComp}} from the AE file since we don’t need it moving forward. Duly noted that the {{}}'s denote the default composition.

@pbretz As a note, using the {{compname}} notation to set your default comp is the best practice over setting it in the Preferences, especially in a context where you might be switching between project files, but you only ever want one comp to be named that way. You can always override the target with a target value in your data.

Thanks Jon!