topic Re: ArcGIS Pro Animation export is empty? in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcGIS Pro Animation export is empty?

DavidMedeiros — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:56:38 GMT

I'm trying to make a simple animation of a boundary progression over time in ArcGIS Pro. The data are a set of individual layers for a national boundary, each layer is a different time step. In the animation menu I'm setting keyframes, one for each time interval, turning each layer on in secession. In the Timeline window I see the correct keyframe thumbnails, and if I advance the frames manually from the Playback menu they change as expected. But, if I hit play on the Playback menu the screen goes blank and I just see the time slide moving but no map. If I export as a Draft or GIF I get export files with only the basemap showing, my layers are missing.

What is going on with my animation?

Re: ArcGIS Pro Animation export is empty?

DavidHintner1 — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:27:40 GMT

I have the exact same problem, I have a layer (3D buildings) which is also not displayed in the exported movie, no matter what format I export. Has anyone got a solution for this?

Re: ArcGIS Pro Animation export is empty?

DavidMedeiros — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:50:41 GMT

update: although I can't tell you what I did differently, my exports now have the map layers showing in them. However, the Playback function still shows no frames or running animation which makes iterating changes extremely difficult. All of the help for this tool is focused on camera animation as opposed to tweening between static layers.

Re: ArcGIS Pro Animation export is empty?

DavidHintner1 — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 15:37:15 GMT

Hm ok, and which export settings have you used when it worked? (Resolution, Frames etc.)

Re: ArcGIS Pro Animation export is empty?

melissaur1039 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:00:14 GMT

Was there ever a viable solution to this? I am having the same issue. I have 23 keyframes and when exported it just randomly skips over several of them and show the same one throughout the video. But when I manually click through the layers in the animation timeline, it shows they are all there with the correct timesteps.