• Adobe After Effects

  OpenGL Crash on Project Open

  Posted by Nate Hanson on May 4, 2009 at 3:44 pm

  One of my students is working on an After Effects project – he’s put a lot of hours into it already. Today when he opened his project he immediately got an error message:

  “Crash occurred while invoking rendering plugin AE_OpenGL”

  Then the program locks up and we have to Force Quit. This happens every time we open the project and we don’t have time to change the render settings.

  Any idea how we can salvage his project?

  Nate Hanson
  Pilothouse Films

  Nate Hanson replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  May 4, 2009 at 4:44 pm

  My first thought is to remove the OpenGL plug-in. Instructions for this are in this Technical Support article on the Adobe website:

  “Troubleshoot OpenGL problems in After Effects CS3”

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  Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
  putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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  Sam Young

  May 4, 2009 at 6:21 pm

  ditto what has been said re: removing openGL

  if you can somehow make it scream and bleed, even better.

  i feel your pain. i teach an AE class and on day one, i tell my students to go into the preferences and UNCHECK “enable openGL because it’s a piece of crap that does not work.”
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  Nate Hanson

  May 6, 2009 at 5:27 pm

  Thanks guys! We were able to remove the plugin and his project was saved. I’ll add “KILL THE OPENGL PLUGIN” to my curriculum.

  Much appreciated,

  Nate Hanson
  Pilothouse Films

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