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AE Error:Output Module Stopped Responding—-Days Estimate for 45 Second Output. Soluition?
I am outputting an AE template project that is 45 seconds long. It has 6 .mov segments (1;20 to 7:00 duration) that are each about 1.7 to 3.4 GB in size (QT Apple ProRes 422HQ format). When I load it in the Render Que it begins, and advances super slow! (about 1 second, 30 fps per hour of process time) It has been showing abut 70 hours to process the entire 45 second project. However, it only gets about 2-1/2 hours (1:28) into the 70 hour render output process before an error comes up.
Error Message: “After Effects error. An output module stopped responding. The File may be damaged or corrupted. You may need to restart After Effects.”
Every time I attempt to process the project this happens. I suspect something is wrong taking that much time to process, besides being stubborn and not succeeding in the output process. However, I have no idea what could be the problem-the videos all seem fine when I watch them as QT movies.
Any suggestions how to proceed?
In the meantime I am going to try outputting the project without any of my files being linked to it to see if it is a problem with the template.
Thanks for any help all of you AE Wizards! I appreciate all the help you have given in the past already.
DanDaniel Monskey
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Hi Dave. You’re everywhere! Thanks for responding.
My OS system is Mac 10.7.5
The After Effects CS6 version is 11.0.4I will be testing the program template with no media, with other media and I did recently output an AE project with no problem. I will get back in “the lab” and work on a few potion recipes.
Dan -
I turned off all other programs on my computer.
I output the project with only still photos as place-holders in the video window frames, as well as making simple data changes like personalizing the text so the only variable I was changing was eliminating the big video files.
It output in 1-1/2 hours–successful and clean.
I suspect the video files are way too big.
The videos are full-version Quicktime Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) files (as I mentioned they are 1.7GB – 3.4GB).
They do not need to be this big as I could chop them down and output them into a 45 second time length (they are 1:35 – 7:30 minutes). I just used the complete videos for convenience since I already had those FCP completed video files.For the After Effects settings in the render que:
Quicktime format is the setting on the first box to open—no changes, that’s the default for me.
On the 2nd Render setting box that pops up I change the setting from animated to Apple ProRes 422 (HQ. I make no other changes, except for the videos (not this time with the photos) I did check the audio box and make that 48.
I then select my destination setting as needed.
And I then hit Render.
With the videos the process crashed with that error message after 2-1/2 hours when it was going to take 75 hours. With the photo placeholders it took 1-1/2 hours and was success.
Should I re-output the videos in a different format using FCP (shortening them to 45 seconds)and use them ONLY as effects files for this project? Are there suggested setting that are different from the ones I listed above for the render que output process?
Dan
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