Render Image vs. Animation changes AOV layers in After Effects

[rushodd]

Hello!

I’m rendering my animation into a multilayer EXR to composite in Ae, and I get different AOVs depending on how I render.

When I render a single image (F12) and open it in Ae with Extractor, I see the correct AOVs with the names I set in Blender. (Beauty, Matte, Depth)

When I render the animation (Ctrl+F12) and open it in Ae, the AOVs change to the default options from the Render node (Composite.Combined, ViewLayer.AO, etc).

I appreciate any help!

Node Setup:

Render Image options:

Render Animation options:

[Okidoki]

Indeed both output produce different images (AFAIK)…

Beware !
If you choose the same path then the standard output from the Output Properties → Output and the File Output node overwrite each other !!

If choosing some additional prefix on the output node like path/to/somehwere/prefix then the extra output stars with that prefix…

(There was already a question how to disable the standard output… but this seems to be not possoble. as far as i remember…)

When using this special fileoutput yu may choose a simpler image format in the standard and dump it ???

[rushodd]

You are correct!

I assumed that the compositor output had the ultimate output since it copied all the details from Blender’s output settings. I am also confused why the Blender output overwrite only happens with Render Animation.

Changing Blender’s output settings to a “dump” folder is my solution so I can quickly delete it all when rendering is complete. I tried to could make it a 0 quality jpeg to reduce the space from having double multilayer EXR, but the render crashes. Keeping it the same output filetype works fine.

Thanks again!

[Okidoki]

Only render animation produce standard outputs… a simple render will not save the rendered image…

Yes… it’s a but unlucky to use just the frame numbers for the nameing… maybe if the standard output would use IMG and the export node for example EXP as default…