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Render crashing on the same frame…
Ok, here’s one I can’t find a solution online for.
We have an AE render that was crapping out on the same frame every single time we tried to render it. Restart AE, crash. Restart computer, crash. Different computer, crash. We’ve rendered every other frame, before and after, perfectly.
I have disk caching on. I’ve tried the secret menu trick to purge frames before the crash. We cannot get this frame to render out, and AE gives no error message as to why. The only thing that seems to be unique about this particular frame is that maybe 3 of the layers have Gaussian blur keyframes on it. Except the rest of the sequence is constant after this keyframe, and like I said, those rendered out fine. It just won’t render this one frame.
I have a feeling this will remain a mystery, but I’m hoping someone else might know some other tricks I haven’t tried to get this one thing to render out.
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can you preview that frame at ‘full’ and 100% (settings for the downsample and size dropdowns at the bottom of the preview window)? if so, try to render just that frame (composition>render frame>file…), then import it and edit together the three pieces. that’s probably the fastest fix…
if you wanted to keep trying to figure this out…. you might try disabling multiprocessing and disk caching to see what effect that may have…
also, since gaussian blur is one of those opengl accelerated effects, you haven’t set the render to use opengl for rendering have you? this is an option in the render settings. to double check, add the comp to the render queue and click the render settings. in the settings window there is a check box option to use opengl rendering. make sure that it is unchecked.
you could also try staggering those keyframes by one frame each, just to see what effect that has…
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Thanks for the advice, but what ended up working was moving those keyframes over one frame. The keyframes changed to 3 on that frame, and then were constant the rest of the sequence, so moving the keyframe to the frame before and rendering just the problem frame worked. When I have some time, I might look at the things you mentioned and see if any of it was the problem. Thanks
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I just encountered the same problem, except there was no apparent reason why the render would always stop at the same frame. I finally got it to render with no problems once I turned off multiprocessing (render multiple frames simultaneously). Now everything is rendering fine! 🙂
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