<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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2023-01-04T12:47:58.287Z
I tried using render but without the encoder my video turned out to be hundreds of GB, which made my disk full.
kr17
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2023-01-04T12:30:41.020Z
2023-01-04T12:30:41.020Z
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<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>

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AME doesn't export the right opacity
kr17
# 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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