Answers.Body: <p>Media Encoder is notoriously unreliable for correctly rendering anything out of Premiere or After Effects. I would only use it for very simple comps and sequences.  Anything else seems to confuse it.</p>
  <p>If you need to automate a lot of renders, you could try rendering them from the command line instead?</p>
  <p><a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/automated-rendering-network-rendering.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/automated-rendering-network-rendering.html</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: I tried using render but without the encoder my video turned out to be hundreds of GB, which made my disk full.
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Body: <p>My picture layer background color was set to white, so in AE it appeared to be light. But in AME it used a black background color instead, so it appeared to be dark. I fixed this by adding a white solid layer under all other layers.</p>
  <p>It's so confusing for a newbie like me.</p>
  <p>In my AE it appears like this
  <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/u7rB0.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/u7rB0.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>but in AME it renders this
  <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/IrNVa.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/IrNVa.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>if I choose Render Alpha Channel Only, it appears like this
  <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/T0owl.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/T0owl.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>I'm wondering how to make the rendered one look like the one in AE</p>
  
Tags: <after-effects><adobe-media-encoder>
Title: AME doesn't export the right opacity
UserDisplayName: kr17
ThreadText: # AME doesn't export the right opacity
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-01-04)
  
  My picture layer background color was set to white, so in AE it appeared to be light. But in AME it used a black background color instead, so it appeared to be dark. I fixed this by adding a white solid layer under all other layers.
  
  It's so confusing for a newbie like me.
  
  In my AE it appears like this
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/u7rB0.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/u7rB0.png)
  
  but in AME it renders this
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/IrNVa.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/IrNVa.jpg)
  
  if I choose Render Alpha Channel Only, it appears like this
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/T0owl.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/T0owl.png)
  
  I'm wondering how to make the rendered one look like the one in AE
  
  **Tags:** after-effects, adobe-media-encoder
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2023-01-04. Score: 0
  
  Media Encoder is notoriously unreliable for correctly rendering anything out of Premiere or After Effects. I would only use it for very simple comps and sequences. Anything else seems to confuse it.
  
  If you need to automate a lot of renders, you could try rendering them from the command line instead?
  
  <https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/automated-rendering-network-rendering.html>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I tried using render but without the encoder my video turned out to be hundreds of GB, which made my disk full.  
  
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