After Effects 7 crashes after Final Cut 5 Universal upgrade?!

[Brian Charles]

Not shure this will help but try trashing After Effects preferences. Hold down Command + Option + Shift as After Effects launches.

I have FCP 5.1 Universal installed and After Effects runs without a problem.

[Erik Lindahl]

That didn’t help sadly

[Pape]

Arghh! I just did the crossgrade myself and am having the same problem, but I have AE6.5. I, however, did NOT back up my system (doh!)..I never thought putting in a new FinalCut would effect After Effects…what the hell???

FIrst I couldn’t import quicktimes, instant crash…then I trashed the prefs and could import quicktimes only with the thumbnails were set to ON in the project window (wierd!), but once I open up a project…bam! Crash out! Man, I can’t figure this out…I upgraded quicktime to 7.1.3…is that it? It was working great with quicktime7 Its a new quicktime component issue or soemthing??? Something new that came along with FInalCut Pro Studio?? Anybody have AE with quicktime 7.1.3 and the new FinalCutStudio under OS 10.4.8 going?

Anybody?

[Erik Lindahl]

I had the same issues as you. I did a archive and install of the system and things got working again. Now, however, alot of apps are missbehaving so I’m doing a complete format and install from scratch today.

Yay!

I’ll let you know how things go!

[Pape]

Wow, ok. Well- I took out the 2 oldest avid components out of quicktime:
AvidAVDJCodec.component
AvidAVUICodec.component
and that seems to work fine, when I put them back, same problem….
So thats great, right? Well, I use those ALL the time to create Avid Meridien compressed quicktimes for clients…trying to find an update to those components from avid, they are from 2002!
I’ll post back the results and any links that may help others…

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[Pape]

Well, I found a newer version in the ‘MACAvidCodecsLE.pkg.zip’ downloadable from avid’s website, its from June 2006 but causes the same crash…

…and I can’t even make a usable meridien 2:1 quicktime with those ’06 versions, I just get a gray screen…

so, my workaround right now is create a shortcut to the qt folder in the library and keep swapping those avid bad apples in and out of the quicktime components- use ’em just when I want to create or play some avid meridien quicktimes.

Jeeeesh! Hello Avid???

[Scott Anderson]

I’m having similar issues -called Adobe and they had be do the standard reinstalls. I was told to call back if the problem kept going – I have one phone on hold for over 88 minutes waiting for a tech pickup – another on hold waiting for a sales person to pickup. Anyway – actual problem is this -I opened AE 7 and received this message “error when opening, sorry, a serious error has been detected. To continue using Adobe After Effects, please reinstall the application.” When I reinstall – I’ve done under my main user and a new user account – twice – anyway – I get a meesage during the install – “An error occurred during the installation process: a required file is missing.” This ran fine a few weeks ago. Also having crashes in 6.5 – which works until I bring in QT files captured with FCP. any thoughts? I have kept Apple items up to date so maybe the QT or FCP software has done something. Running out of time on current project. Mac is Dual 2.7 with 5.5 g of ram system 10.4.8. Thanks,
Scott

[Pape]

Well, the only thing I did specifically was:
go into your system hard drive, mine is ‘Macintosh HD’ to this folder:
Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/

and drag out the 2 Avid Meridien components to your desktop (don’t trash them!):
AvidAVUICodec.component
AvidAVDJCodec.component

once I did this After Effects started up again. This worked for me, I don’t know if it will for you but its worth a shot.

The only thing is when you want to create an Avid Meridien quicktime you need to drag those 2 components back into the quicktime component folder again.
So you won’t be able to render a Meridien quicktime out of After Effects, but render out one at Animation Codec and use QuicktimePro to export an Avid Meridien quicktime after you drag the components back in.

Let us know how it goes, I am curious if this is just me thats running into this Meridien thing.