Hi Josh
—————- this has happened to me also — the black is no problem the comp is still there —- just clear all the cache areas and reboot the machine — should load normally and off you go…
— seems to me that memory areas are not automatically cleared and fill up causing problems …..
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I clear as below – its probably a bit ‘belt-and-braces’ but seems to work for me……
edit / purge / / all memory plus image cache memory
also
edit / preferences / media and disk cach / empty disk cache plus clean database and cache
Then exit AE and reboot the machine.
Editing in sections has worked for me when I’ve had real problems in the past — just render as sequential files till it crashes / delete last rendered frame in case corrupt / then re-render from that frame number straight into same folder till it crashes again or finishes etc — its a pain but no real problem …
————————————- chris —