AE 6.5 crashing

[Fred Matthews]

Just to update this, I tried once more and didn’t touch anything and the project opeded after about two minutes.

This has never happened before. Normally things open within a matter of seconds or at least give the appearance of opening. But this is new.

Same questions…is there something I might need to do to prevent this?

[Steve Roberts]

What happens if you create a new project then import an existing project?

[Chris Forrester]

Just as a side note, I tend to make sure my info panel is open and visible before I open projects especially the larger composites as I can see it loading files up and how far it has got. Gives you a good indication as to whether you need to wait longer and be reassured that AE is indeed doing something. Perhaps it will also tell “a story” to you as to what the potential problem might be, perhaps a piece of footage or movie that it is having problems with ie you see it is not loading a movie file quickly when it is a small file.
Just some thoughts

Chris

[Fred Matthews]

Steve, I hadn’t tried that but it might not be an issue. It seems to just be this project as it is grabbing things from multiple computers and there are some large files involved.

Chris, what Info Panel are you speaking of? I would like to do that but I did not see an option anywhere for an Info Panel.

[Chris Forrester]

You’ll find the info panel under the menu Window – INFO or CTRL 2, I did forget one thing though you might need to tick this preference box. Its under Display, near the bottom it reads “Show Rendering in Progress in Info Palette & Flowchart”. You might not need it ticked for fedback when loading/saving projects but I have it on always. I tend to like the feedback (although some say it slows things down a little) as I can see what comps are a little slower and what on effects.
Hope you figure it out
Chris