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AE crashes 8 times?
Hey, been using AE Pro 7 for about 5 months now. Aside from one corrupted project, it’s been working great! Until now, that is.
During the course of this 30 sec spot, AE has crashed 9 times due to “Abnormal Behavior”. Luckily, it always lets me save before it quits. This comp is fairly complex: Multiple keyed subjects, a moving fractal background, and alot of 3D elements. I’ve precomposed as much as possible to make things run as smoothly as possible.
I don’t know if it was just something about this project or what. My drives are getting a wee bit full. I still have 30 GB on the system drive and 105 GB on the storage.
Windows XP
2.8 Dual Core
4 GB RAM
Gforce 7600I’m finally done with the project and would like to diagnose the problem. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Would a reinstall help in this case? Would a reinstall mess with any of the other projects I am currently working on?
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Oh, I guess I should tell you when the crashes usually occur.
When I’m scrubbing though the timeline while holding down the CTRL key, while I’m trying to Ram Preview the entire comp at half res, when I’m just moving through the timeline frame by frame using the page down key.
Thanks.
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It’s hard to say really. Could you tell us that effects do you use? Some of them are pretty CPU intensive and that might cause the problem (like TimeWarp and Force Motion Blur)
If you ever run into this problem again try to work in Half resolution, and make proxies of your complex comps.
Good luck!
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hmmmmmm…color correction. I have a keyed out guy that is actually composed of 4 seperate layers (the green screen was lit very poorly and I had to do alot of masking). Some particle Play Ground effects, a fractal noise effect that makes up my entire back ground. Lots of masking of moving pre comped layers. I think that’s about it.
I’m a huge fan of your tutorials by the way, Maltaannon. =)
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hey thanks for the good word! 😉
it’s hard to pinpoint the problem from the distance. have you tried to run this project on another machine?
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I have only one machine!
I think it is just a matter of having alot of effects going.
I haven’t had this problem with any other projects.
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I’d rather say that many effects could cause Out of Memory error, or AE cannot render RESxRES, or something, but not a crash.
AE tends to crash from time to time. Like all apps. But if you say it’s not random crashing than there is a certain cause. I’d try to turn all the layers off, and then do a ram preview turning one more each time to find the layer that might cause this problem.
It may me footage, codecs, damaged ram chip… hard to say.
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thanks for the advice. I’ll try that.
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I have seen that in the past. I narrowed it down in my situation to an AIF files I was using for reference audio. If I deleted the audio from the project and reimported, I was good to go. IF you have audio files in the project you might try that.
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I do, in fact, have audio. Thanks for the suggestion.
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