Advanced 3D crashes AE 7 HELP!!!

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Advanced 3D crashes AE 7 HELP!!!

Posted by Brad Cowan on June 10, 2007 at 12:24 pm

Hi everybody! I’m going crazy!

I’ve got something due terribly soon and AE keeps crashing like crazy! I’m on a PowerPC G5 dual 2 with 8 GB RAM. I’m working with a comp that is 3150×1050 and everytime I open this comp AE either crashes with the error message above. This comp is a week or so old and I haven’t changed that much and earlier I had been able to render lower-res QTs from it. I was even able to preview frames at full-res. It has a stationary camera with two lights and 2 layers with 3D invigorator in them. I searched forums for about an hour last night with no luck. Please help!!!!

Thanks in advance

Roland R. kahlenberg replied 18 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Roland R. kahlenberg
June 10, 2007 at 2:01 pm

Ensure that you ahve the latest version of Zaxwerks that’s compatible with AE7. If that’s alright then switch off OpenGL in the AE’s preferences/preview/display settings. And if that’s not doing it too then look into your OS settings and switch off hardware acceleration.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg

https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace
Brad Cowan
June 10, 2007 at 4:15 pm

Hi,

Thanks for replying so fast. I looked up everything you suggested and still no dice. I’m trying to back and find an older project file. But even that isn’t working. I think I may have a corrupt project or comp. Perhaps a plug-in is bad in there. It is very touchy right now, freezing even while working in a nested comp inside the one that seems to cause the crash.

OK, I just tried to render it again. With the same result. So frustrating.
Brad Cowan
June 10, 2007 at 4:31 pm

Now I just tried to reduce the project (it was pretty big) to only this comp. I was able to preview a frame at 1/8 resolution. I also went down to 8-bit for the comp. Still no render. I just tried to copy all the layers to paste into a fresh comp and I got a beachball and blammo…bye bye AE.
Roland R. kahlenberg
June 10, 2007 at 5:05 pm

Sounds like a memory-related issue. Lots to test out here –
1) Remove one of the Zaxwerks layers to see if that helps – you may have to render each separately (a pre-render for each one)
2) If your lights and camera are animating, ensure that they don’t share the same position at any point in time – never heard of this happening or causing an issue but I’d still look into it – deperate situation calls for desperate action.
3) Reduce the size of your comp
4) Transfer the project onto another machine – or maybe even put a copy here for someone else to have a look-see

Good Luck
Roland Kahlenberg

https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace
Brad Cowan
June 10, 2007 at 5:17 pm

THANKS A LOT, ROLAND. SORRY FOR TYPING IN ALL CAPS BUT I’VE ACTUALLY GOT IT TO RENDER! (SO I HAVE CAPS-LOCK ON TO STOP THE REFRESH).

WHAT I ENDED UP DOING WAS DELETING MY TEXT LAYERS AND A CONTINUOUSLY RASTERIZED LOGO AND SWITCHED IT TO STANDARD 3D. I CAN RE-COMPOSITE THE TEXT LATER.

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUGGESTIONS. WHAT A WEIRD ISSUE.
Roland R. kahlenberg
June 10, 2007 at 5:27 pm

[bradcowan] “THANKS A LOT, ROLAND. SORRY FOR TYPING IN ALL CAPS BUT I’VE ACTUALLY GOT IT TO RENDER! (SO I HAVE CAPS-LOCK ON TO STOP THE REFRESH).”

Ahh, I tohught you were upset. 😉

You didn’t mention the text layers and logo. Pre-rendering helps a lot when working with high-res layers, 3D or otherwise. You may want to render to sequenced stills in case the render fails mid-way. Better safe than sorry.

Hope things work out – live and learn bro.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg

https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace

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