Solving Adobe After Effects Issues

Adobe After Effects and Adobe Animate both have their foibles and issues. Here are a couple of solutions to solve to of the most frustrating issues with After Effects:

1.) After Effects won't render my animation. Solution - use Adobe Media Encoder

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/kb/export-h264.html

2.) I can't play my rendered videos using Quicktime on my Mac computer with Catalina OS installed. Solution - download and use VLC

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

NOTE: VLC also works on Windows machines.

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Assignment 8 - Create Animated Backgrounds

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