• Adobe After Effects

  AE Crashes When I Add Text!

  Posted by Big Jamie on January 16, 2006 at 10:44 pm

  Hi there everyone,

  I’m recently started using After Effects 6.5 and whenever i try to add text to a new composition by clicking on the text tool, as soon as i draw the rectangle to put the text in, the program crashes. I then just get a “Not responding” error message in the title bar.

  I can do other much more complicated effects so can’t understand why it won’t let me add simple text! I have:

  128MB ATI Radeon X300 SE Graphics Card
  3GHz P4 processor
  512MB Dual Channel DDR2 400MHz RAM

  If anyone can suggest what the problem may be i would be most grateful!

  Thanks in advance,
  Jamie

  Big Jamie replied 20 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jim Kanter

  January 17, 2006 at 2:18 pm

  You might have some corrupted fonts.

  Have you tried adding point text (just click in the Comp panel without dragging a text box)?

  Jim Kanter,
  Digital Film Institute
  http://www.dfilminst.com
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  Big Jamie

  January 17, 2006 at 6:59 pm

  Hi Jim,

  thanks for the reply, unfortunately it didn’t work – as soon as i click in the comp window the program stops responding.

  I don’t suppose you/anyone has any other ideas?

  Thanks,
  Jamie
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  Tim Kurkoski

  January 18, 2006 at 6:38 pm

  Ideas:

  – Trash AE prefs.
  – Reinstall AE.
  – Troubleshoot fonts. By this I mean pulling out fonts from your fonts folder. Often one corrupt font can kill a whole app.
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  Big Jamie

  January 19, 2006 at 9:16 pm

  Thanks for the suggestions Timothy but none of them worked i’m afraid.

  It’s weird – i have the same problem when i try and edit text in menu buttons in Encore. I have also had problems rendering movies in Premiere – when i have text with effects such as shadow, it causes the render to crash sometimes.

  Does that help anyone work out what might be wrong?

  Cheers
  Jamie

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