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After Effects keeps crashing on 9000 frames! Urgent!
Hello. I have got After Effects CS3. I also have a school project which is due to Friday! I finished my project a while ago but when I export it it crashes on 9000-9900 frames no matter what format. I decided I’d check out what was on 9000 frames, and when I did it also crashed! Then I tried opening other projects and no matter what I opened After Effects crashed on 9000 frames. The error message was:
After Effects has crashed. Please seek support on Adobe.com (which didn’t answer my question-.-) (0 :: 42)Also, If I switch the preview mode on the project to regular time it suddenly works. But I still can’t export because it shows frames.
Please help!!
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3 Replies
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Daniel –
Here are a few things to try:
1. Set your “secret” settings in AE to purge every 5 frames. To get to the settings, hold down the Shift key while selecting Preferences.
2. Split your project into smaller pieces.
3. Render out Targa files, then, after the crash, at least you will have everything up until the crash saved, at which point you can try the render from the crash frame. Then import your Targas and render out whichever format you need.
4. Read this:
https://generalspecialist.com/2007/02/troubleshooting-after-effects-7.asp
Good luck!
Joe Bourke
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Does it only crash during export or while scrubbing through to 9000 frames as well? Are you using “export” and “render” interchangeably here, because they are 2 different things…you can search the forums for an explanation – though I can’t recall the particulars I believe Dave LaRonde has posted in the past on the differences between the two.
I would try accessing the secret area of your preferences and purging every X frames (where X is a number of your choice). To do so, hold down shift and navigate to the “preferences” folder from your menu – if you’ve done it right, the last option in the preferences dropdown should be “secret”.
From here you can tell AE to purge every X frames during a render. This has helped me overcome crashes in the past. The downside is that your render time will increase if you are using time-based effects as they use previous frames to calculate how they’ll be applied to the frames ahead.
Hope this helps
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Looks like some of the gurus beat me to it! sorry for the redundant response…
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