• Adobe After Effects

  AE CS4 drops frames when rendering..

  Posted by Melissa Kern on July 1, 2009 at 4:09 pm

  Hi.

  I am rendering a composition that contains 4 layers total. 2 pre-rendered Quicktimes (DV Quality), 1 audio mp3, and a black solid.note: 1 Quicktime is time remapped. I have a Mac Pro with 8 processors and 10 gigs. I am using multi-processing (I use 4 of the 8 processors and I allow 1 gig per processor).
  the entire composition is 3 and 1/2 min.
  I keep trying to get a “clean render”.. and each time a section of the render starts dropping frames (the screen goes completely black)..more than a “flicker” ..so not just a single frame.
  and..its not always at the same point. it changes each time I try and render.

  any suggestions? I’ve been hunting the forums and haven’t really come up with anything.

  thanks
  m

  Melissa Kern replied 16 years, 10 months ago 29,107 Members · 2 Replies
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  Melissa Kern

  July 1, 2009 at 5:38 pm

  I tried to render not using multi processing and I got this error message.

  after effects error: updating movie-out of memory (-108)
  (44::53)

  and something really strange happened… there was a box outside of the composition playback window – on the desktop itself- of the video I am trying to render..and when I would scrub the timeline that “box” scrubs right along with the composition window…does that seem video card related?

  finally, I did shoot some of the footage originally in HD but then out put still images from that as .psd and created animations from those .psd

  thanks for responding I will try an .aiff file if I can find it oor convert what I have.
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  Melissa Kern

  July 20, 2009 at 10:50 pm

  Hi..

  I’ve solved my problem by rendering out the animation as a targa sequence.
  is there a program you could suggest for combining the sound (which is a mp3) and the targa
  sequence? I have FCP, but don’t want any loss in image quality…I also have CS4..with the adobe encoder.
  and premiere of course.
  my final output is for the web (still 720×480 though)..what the best way to render for the web?
  can I change an mp3 to an aif?

  any suggestion would be a great help.
  thanks
  m

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