AE CS4 crashes

[Kevin Camp]

it does seem strange if it always happens that way… i think i have encountered a crash or 2 where i had to reboot, but definitely not every cs4 crash.

i’ll give the obvious suggestion, make sure you have the latest update for cs4 (9.0.3).

the next time it happens, you might open the activity monitor (applications>utilities) and see i all ae processes have quit. it’s possible that some of the processes are still running and that is preventing ae from relaunching.

with cs3, i remember ae crashes would often leave the aeselflink processes running (those are the background render engines that ae uses for multi-processing). relaunching cs3 would then open a new series of aeselflink processes, and performance would go way down, but it still launched… to get ae back to working properly i would have to use the activity monitor to quit each aeselflink manually, then relaunch ae (of course a reboot would do the same).

Kevin Camp
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[Jan Van den bossche]

I did forget to mention that I have Nucleo Pro running. So maybe that is the app still running in the background ? Thanks for the tip, I’m gonna check it next time AE crashes.

Jan Van den Bossche

[Brian Charles]

Sometimes Nucleo Pro doesn’t release memory. Check the Crash Log and Activity Monitor when the crash occurs, you can force quite Nucleo and see whether it frees up After Effects.

[Jan Van den bossche]

I added a screenshot, I cannot force stop the aerendercore processes, strange…

Jan Van den Bossche