• Adobe After Effects

  Continuous beeping when rendering

  Posted by Scott Thomas on August 11, 2008 at 9:22 pm

  Using a Mac Pro with 8 cores and 5Gb ram. I have added CC Light Burst 2.5 to a clip and when I perform a ram preview or render the composition in the render queue, the Mac Pro starts bleeping (it could be the hard-drive)every 2 seconds. After Effects struggles to render and I have to force quit the application.

  If I render the sequence with the effect turned off it renders without problem.

  The System Profiler doesn’t offer any clues.

  I have heard a similar noise when transfering video from a video camera into Final Cut Pro although the process completed succesfully.

  Can anyone offer any advice?

  Scott Thomas replied 17 years, 9 months ago 23,901 Members · 1 Reply
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  Scott Thomas

  August 12, 2008 at 5:59 am

  Hi Dave. I had similar thoughts but the drive set to cache (and render too had over 36Gb free. I also changed the drive cache to another drive with over 300Gb spare. And renedering without the effect causes no problem.

  I thought that it might be that the Mac was attempting to write to the drives faster than their own cache would allow. Both drives are internal SATA drives and all run at 7200 spin speed.

  You are right about it being unheard of. I have spent hours on web searches trying to find someone else with the problem with no luck.

  Has anyone else had this problem?

  Scott

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