AE 6.5 and MacOS 10.4.1 Tiger

[Kelly Johnson]

Have you called Adobe and asked them? Cosidering the price of the software and system you’re using, I’d make the $30 plunge. They don’t charge if they can’t resolve the issue and it’s actually attributed to the software.

I’d also try turning off the majority of your fonts and starting AE and see what happens.

If it’s the same, then the old Classic trick of extensions…..remember disabling one, restarting and such? Well, try that concept but with any extra plug-ins in the AE plug-ins folder. Could be a plug-in is interacting with the AE engine which is working with the new system and maybe some plug-in is causing a hang-up.

Search at the adobe forums and apple forums as well. I see more users of AE at apple forums than I do purely Motion.

[Rich Carroll]

We’re having the exact same problem here on one of our graphics stations (dual 2.5, 10.4.1, 6.5.1) locks after rendering, all comands are greyed out, but you can still work in the time line etc, just no save. It seems to have happened when updated to 10.4.1, but not sure if that’s what broke it.

[Mark Maness]

Finally…! Someone to my rescue. Now there’s two of us with the same issue.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Ben List]

This topic is so old now and I’m sure most of you all have switched to 7.0 already so this is probably completely irrelevant now.
I wanted to post this though because I’m still on 6.5 and I still have this problem now and then.
It seems to happen indeed after a render and sleep. It doesn’t happen all the time in a predictable way. This is the first time
I’d seen it although I have a staff member who had reported soething similar as a kind of crash before.
I forgot to save before a render last night and this happened to me.
I couldn’t command-Q to save either.
I was desperate to save the two hours or so of work not covered by the lack of saving and stuck with the software for a while
and for some reason my menus came back and I was able to save and do “menu things” again. Obviously one should restart
after something like this, but just FYI there may be a way out!

Frankly I’m not clear on exactly what did the trick, however I did the following steps and one of them seemed to do it.

1) Pulled a movie in from finder
2) Made a comp of movie
3) changed length of time on comp (com-k doesn’t work, but right click to change comp settings does)
4) pulled an older comp into new comp
…and for whatever reason this was enough to bring back my menus… hell if I know why!!!

Perhaps this will help some other poor soul still facing this issue with 6.5.

Ben List
http://www.chromafresh.com