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AFX render error
Yo!
I haven’t posted here for a long-long-long time. But I hope you will all take a look at this problem of mine. I am running After Effects 7 on a Mac G5 Dual 2.7 Ghz Power PC (Pre Intel!)
I’ve rammed it with 3.5 Gig of Ram across all its slots. However, recently, its developed a problem with rendering. Whenever it reaches halfway through a comp it stops and tells me: “After Effects error:opening movie–you do not have permission to open this file (-54).
Now I’m no tech-head, but I’ve set all my drive privileges to read & write, did one of those disk permissions tests and even upgraded to After Effects CS3.
But I don’t even know what that message means! Is it saying I haven’t got permission to open a movie it hasn’t finished rendering yet?
I’m trying to find the cause of the problem via a process of elimination. I’ve checked through all the layers, tried rendering with or without filters, reduced image/graphic size in Photoshop. Even tried rendering seperate layers with Alpha channels in order to recompose later.
None of it works, and for a machine of this spec it should be able to render 10 secs of animation!I’m hoping someone has encountered this before. At the moment I’m investigating my Ram, in case its a system-wide problem, and looking to change the sticks to pairs of 1 gig strips instead of pilling up loads of 512’s!
Despite not posting here, I do check the site for tutorials and guidance. Its great, keep it up!
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the problem is quicktime 7.4. You recently updated to that didn’t you.
There is a big thread about the issue here on the cow. I’d copy paste but I’m on an iPhone.
Do a little searching it won’t be hard to find. -
Look down for a thread about Quicktime 7.4.
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Thanks dude,
Yeh I did the upgrade! Nice one Apple!Giant Robots Kik Ass!
Movies with Giant Robots in ’em Kik even more Ass! -
Thanks, I just discovered it!
Blow me Apple. Damn it.Giant Robots Kik Ass!
Movies with Giant Robots in ’em Kik even more Ass! -
Did you ever get an answer…Same damned thing happened to me…
best,
tamo
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