• Adobe After Effects

  Advanced 3D Plugin Crash

  Posted by Dan Denegre on January 12, 2010 at 3:25 pm

  Hi. I’m having an issue where if I try to render a single frame on a comp while scrubbing, I get the error that the Advanced 3D Plugin has failed, and AE crashes. This happens on comps with 3d items, several layers (no more than 10-20 layers), and quicktime files (which might be the problem). If I select a comp without 3d layers and quicktime files, I can scrub/render just fine. I’ve tested both with opengl and without.
  I’ve cleared the cache, tried autoclearing frames every 1-20frames in the secret prefs, cleared media cache, disabled and re-enabled opengl, checked that I could successfully play the qt files on the computer, and checked older archived saves of the project (which crashed as well).
  This crash began after the sudden disconnect of my five quicktime media files which happened out of nowhere. This so far seems to be the source of the issues, but I’m still testing away. The files seems to be intact and there’s no shortage of disk space. (37gigs free, five video files ranging from 50mb-240mb)
  I’ve looked over dozens of forums, and found no particular solution. Any ideas from the community?

  Specs:
  XP, 32-bit
  AE CS4 9.0.2
  2gb RAM
  3.2ghz Intel chip
  Nvidia 8800GT, 191.xx drivers (the latest drivers give me issues)

  Martin Chambers replied 16 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Denegre

  January 12, 2010 at 7:30 pm

  Thanks Dave!

  I misspoke when I said 2gb of RAM…that’s what’s allocated to AE. I have 4gb (3.25 in 32bit XP).
  However, I did finally solve the problem. There was one single Illustrator layer that had somehow gone corrupt. I don’t know what caused it, but re-saving it as new Illustrator file via Illustrator, then reloading it in AE – well, that solved the problem. I’m glad it wasn’t anything bigger than that. I just opened the project withe the comps closed, went through every comp one by one until I found it.

  Thanks again!
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  Martin Chambers

  May 13, 2010 at 2:38 pm

  Hi Dave,
  I’ve heard you mention the HDV codec a few times and the problems it causes within AE.
  In practice, what codec do you suggest I use in AE and how do I go about converting the HDV footage?
  Many thanks,
  Martin

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