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AE hanging up constantly
I am getting a constant problem: AE will freeze up (spinning beachball) for about a minute, then unfreeze.
I will work for a while, then same thing. As you can imagine, this interupts the creative process!
My project has alot of 3D layers and pre-comps & I have the comp set to render in Open GL to speed things up.I am running AE 6.5, Mac OS X 10.3.9 and Quictime 7.0.1 on a Dual 1ghz PowerMac with 1.75 Gig of RAM
I have tried disk cache ON, and OFF which did not help.
Any ideas why, how to get around this?
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Open your utility folder in your applications folder and launch application monitor. This will give you some info you may not be aware of. For the full story read this month’s MACADDICT magazine. It has a very useful article on cleaning up and streamlining your OSX system. I have been a mac user for almost 20 years and even I learned a lot. MacAddict. Read it and learn. http://www.macaddict.com
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Something similar happened to me. I am running a Windows machine with 2GB of RAM (4 x 512MB). The only time my system would hang up was when I was compressing video or rendering with After Effects. Turns out that my 4th bank of RAM was bad. This explains why my system ran fine most of the time. Windows rarely uses anything more than the first 512MB of RAM until you are running an intense program like AE. It also explaines why you can render for about the first minute before the hang-up. Try removing one bank of RAM at a time. Or perhaps there is a Mac utility like MemTest that can diagnose your RAM.
-Mike Behrens-
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OH MY GOD! I am going crazy with this problem, please tell me you found a fix?
Thanks,
Vince
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PROBLEM SOLVED!
At least for me…. give this a try, download the 6.5.1 update off the Adobe site. Clear sailing!
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