After Effects CS6 Render Error

[Josh Stone]

Finally! I’ve just managed to render out a composition in After Effects in the Quicktime format!

Here’s how I fixed it:

1. Find the AE application at: C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe After Effects CS6Support Files
2. Next, right click the application called “AfterFX.exe”
3. Go to the compatibility tab and check the box “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” and then select your operating system (vista for me).
4. After that, still on the compatibility tab, under the heading “Privilege level” check the box for “Run this program as a administrator.

By the way this is on windows vista so I’m not sure whether it’ll work on other OS systems but worth a try. Also I’m not sure that step 3 is actually necessary but I don’t want to try it without incase I screw it all up again. Hope this works for you.

Josh

[Paul Griffiths]

This worked for me too on Windows 7 Enterprise, except I didn’t need to use the last ‘run as admin’ step, many thanks!

Paul

Paul Griffiths

[Julieta Ramos]

I am experiencing the same issue and unfortunately, your solution above did not help 🙁

Are there any other suggestions?

Another thing I noticed is that when I run Dxdiag, DirectX does not seem to recognize my video card. However, the card shows up in System Info.

[Martin Hickford]

Hi there,

Not sure if this will help you at all, but I thought I’d share my experience with resolving this situation.

I’m running CS6 on a dual core Xeon Mac Pro, 12 GB Ram

In the after effects menu there’s the option for clearing the cache (which i had set to max size of 93 GB). I used this option and got confirmation telling me this was completed and so I assumed that my cache was empty when I was getting this problem.

However, when I ran omni disk sweeper to find where all my hard drive space had gone, I stumbled upon the cache file locations, which was still full of 93 GB of cache files. (User > Library > Preferences > Adobe > After Effects > 11.0)

Clear this folder manually, restart your computer performing a PRAM reset (hold ctrl+cmd+p+r during boot up until you hear the chime for the second time) and you should find that you’ll be able to render quicktimes without turning off multi processing or clearing the cache in the secret menu.

I can only assume that clearing via the after effects menu didn’t work because of a permissions issue on my computer – I had recently run a ‘repair permissions’ from disk utility, which I suspect might have interfered with After Effects.

Martin Hickford | Freelance Video Editor & Multimedia Designer for TV, Film, Commercial & Promo. Technically an adult.

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[James Osbun]

Hello all.

I am running AE CS6 on a Hackintosh and started getting this problem for no apparent reason. I had even just rendered a few minutes prior to the error.

My edit array has over 2TB free space out of 12 total, but space was the problem.

Just as Martin above me says, clearing the cache is necessary. I cleared out 120GB of cache, and now it renders like a charm.

Hope this helps you.
James

Producer, Vice President (Monarex)
Film with Sony F3, Canon XF300 & 5D MKii (Zeiss glass, by Duclos)
Finish with 3 Hackintosh Edit Bays (by Cy)

[Tarun Bhalla]

Thank you it worked on Windows. I chose Windows 7 option since there was no Windows 8 option in the compatibility screen.

[Pete Wallace]

After lots of messing around – I found that H264 started working for .mov – only if I used msconfig to limit my cores / processors to 4 or less.

My machine has 40 logical processors available.

Windows 8 – 64bit