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  • Am I stoned? “SHEEP” noise (baaa) then a crash?

    Posted by Jaso Allen on January 16, 2007 at 4:15 am

    Hey guys.

    Im running AE 7 on a mbp. Been having a bit of trouble with crashes. Can’t remember what was doing it last time,. but currently im CC Force motion blurring a comp with some zax 3d in it and im experiencing a 50% crash rate.

    I’ve tried setting a 10 frame purge in the shecret menu, and now on half of my crashes i swear im hearing a sheep’s baa right before AE crashes.

    Anyone know what this is, or why I might be experiencing crashes with this combo of effects? I need to do about 100 of these comps and its really annnoying.

    Thanks everyone.

    Jason Allen

    Dylan Mercer replied 15 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Serge Hamad

    January 16, 2007 at 4:47 am

    Hey,

    No. You are not stoned dude; it’s just the sheep that had too much grass.

    The sound you are hearing congratulates you to a render failure. The reasons can be thousands +

    Try first rendering your Invigorator/proanimator animations to movies, replace your layers then apply CC.

    You don’t intend to use 100 of Invigorator instances in your project, do you? I wouldn’t do that! Trust me I do a lot of creasy things with Invigorator but more then five instances and AE gets to the edge of its limits.

    Hope this may help.

    Salut.
    Serge

    “InvigoMany” On sale here:https://www.nyc-visual.com

  • Jaso Allen

    January 16, 2007 at 5:33 am

    Hi Serge,

    Nope, not gonna try and use 100 invigs – im using one with four objects in it and I’m struggling as is. I have an animation of a playing card flipping over, and i need to render it with each playing card on the face. Two different animations x 52 cards equals 104 animations. At the moment I’m rendering an animation, go back and change the layer map, re-render. Can you think of any simpler way to do this other than duplicating my comp 52 times?

    I’ve had render failures before but never heard he sheep. caught me by surprise. I thought it may have been the yak thinng I’ve heard about, but I think im thinking of FCP there.

    I tried rendering my movie, bringing it back in and applying cc force motion blur but it doesn’t seem to add any blur. I just added my re-imported video file to a new comp and added the effect. Is this incorrect – this effect can confuse me a little..

    You helped me out with something last week too Serge but I think I never said thank you. I apologise for that. Thank you.

    Take care.

    Jason Allen

  • Serge Hamad

    January 16, 2007 at 7:37 am

    Hi Jason,

    CC FMB will not work on a movie. My bad! I did not double check your post and missed what CC effects you are using.
    To better understand how this plug works check Aharon’s excellent tutorial.

    Now, I don’t really understand what you are after. Could you send me a project file? (serge_01 at msn.com)

    I have a couple of thoughts on how you could speed up your animation using expressions as well as layer mapping tricks. But I need to know if I am understanding you right here.

    Are you also aware that Invigorator Pro has an excellent Motion Blur? What is your Invigorator version?

    Never mind the “Thank you” thingy. We all are busy 😉

    Salut.
    Serge

    “InvigoMany” On sale here:https://www.nyc-visual.com

  • Dylan Mercer

    July 27, 2010 at 11:20 pm

    I am half Welsh, half New Zealander, and both nationalities have unsavoury reputation sregarding sheep.

    When I first heard this ‘baa’ noise I blew a fuse and accused everyone for messing with my audio settings. It took a lot of convincing to make me believe that this is in fact a factory standard after effects error noise!

    I just got it again today during a failed batch render.

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