In the first case, it tried connecting to Dynamic Link, which just sat there forever, not finishing the connection. When I moved my project into Media Encoder, I tried two things I started rendering with the file destination set to my D:// drive which is my hard drive with a ton of space, and I tried to render with the file destination set to my C:// drive which is my SSD with around 3gb left. All was going well up until I tried to render the project in Media Encoder, at which point my project decided it didn't want to even attempt to render. So I'm using after effects to create some animated text to add to my steam profile, and I tried using the Saber plugin to create a cool effect.