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AE error 44 : 39
Hello, the COW-
I am pulling my rapidly greying hair out.
Out of nowhere, I keep getting this error when I want to render to an animation codec quicktime:
After Effects error: CompressSequenceFrame()
returned invalid dataSize for Animation. Contact
codec vendor for an updated version.
(44::39)
On mylenium’s site, he recommends re-installing Quicktime. I did that, no help. I trashed QT preferences, no help. Repaired disk permisions, no help. I’ve searched the COW and have found others with this issue, but haven’t found solutions.
Any ideas?? Anyone?
Cheers,
Jason -
8 Replies
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two more thing you might try…
pull the ae prefs folder onto the desktop… it should be in users>username>library>preferences>adobe>after effects, it’s the folder named after the version of ae you are using, like ‘9.0’. then start ae and see if that helps, if not replace the new pref folder with the old one to get all your settings back.
you could also see if there might be a bad codec that is causing issues with the animation codec… standard quicktime codecs get installed in the system>library>quicktime folder, while most third-party codecs should get installed in library>quicktime and users>username>library>quicktime. go to those 2 folders and put those codecs (components) in folders on the desktop (leave the ‘system’ codecs alone, unless you know you’ve placed third-party codecs in there). then restart ae again and see if that helps…
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Hey, guys-
Dave-
Thanks for the info! Very good to know. With my case, all the footage I am using is ProRes 422 and it’s a template “donut” sequence that I’ve been using for 3 years on a show I work on. Until now, I have never had a problem with it.Kevin-
It appears that one of my third party components (codecs) was messing with the Animation codec. Why? How? And why now? I have no idea. So I went through and removed all the third party codecs that I know I don’t need, moved them to the desktop, restarted AFX and voila, everything rendered normal.Thanks very much, guys!
Cheers,
Jason -
Thanks for posting the working solution, Jason — not everybody does that.
Cheers,
Steve -
I got this error message and I’ve isolated the source as a jpeg I was given to use as a background to the animation.
Without the background, or with the old background (a smaller file) I can output 1920×1080; with the background I get the error message when it fades up.
It’s 2560×1600, two layers, rgb, 8-bit. Anything I should ask its creator about? I’m very puzzled. I don’t have many third party components or codecs that I know about.
I’m on CS4, mac os x, quadcore.
Thanks!
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@ Kevin Camp:
I tried finding those prefs folders you described here but i couldn’t find them anywhere, I am using windows 7 64 bit.
After a while I realized it probably had something to do with my 64 bit version of windows, so I figured i probably had to change the color depth from 8 bit to 16 bit and everything rendered great, i tried 32 bit but i was getting some artifacts, so I stayed on 16 bit, i only did that for projects that threw that (44::39) error at my face. -
I realize this thread is dated, but I discovered a workaround for this problem.
In AE, export your composition as a JPEG sequence. Open up the JPEG sequence in Adobe Premiere (when finding the files make sure to check “number stills” when you click on the first JPEG of the sequence).
And voila! You should be able to render the sequence in Premiere and then export it as a movie file.
I believe the core of this issue has to do with Quicktime codecs and this method will help you avoid any of that.
I hope this helps someone!
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I too had this error while rendering some jpeg images from AE. I was able to get it to work by switching to 32bpc. Thanks!!!!!!!!
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I had this problem when Quicktime output format options was set to Animation. When I switched it to JPEG, the issue vanished.
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