Can i render a project in sections?

[Mark Whitney]

Certainly. Just render as an image sequence. Remember to change the frame range though in the Render Queue for each past so you don’t over-write the earlier frames.

[Jasford Muldoon]

ok so I started rendering as an image sequence in AE and it crashed at the same usual point, in media encioder it just stops the render but doesnt crasah, in ae it completely crashes the program. This is hard to figure out, what should I do mark?

[Mark Whitney]

What do you have going on in the comp at that point?

The ususal diagnositic process is to disable effects, expressions, and the like until you isolate whats causing the problem. Since it’s happening at the same spot, it should be easier to find than something intermittant. Keep sleuthing.

[Jasford Muldoon]

ok so I tried to render it as a jpeg sequence, beecause previously i was doing a tiff sequence and unlike with the tiff sequence i got this popping up

and it for some reason crashes when it tried to render a transition, i tried disabling it in the comp but it still renderred out, not sure if im doing that wrong

[Jeff Pulera]

I’ve seen super-long Windows file name paths do weird things…please try exporting to the root drive once. Not sure why your exports would be directed to an “auto-save” folder.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Jasford Muldoon]

Thank you for this comprehensive reply jeff however Im not too clued up on how to do that, could you shed some knowledge on what I’m supposed to do?
Thanks
Jasford

[Jeff Pulera]

Shorten up the “Save to” destination path of the export file

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Jasford Muldoon]

Ok ill giveit a go, I just got off of a 3 hour support session n with adobe and there specialist tried everything and just gave up in the end he has no idea why it is doing this

[Walter Soyka]

1) Probably not related to your crash, but tidy up your work. You are sure to lose track of your project file the way you’re working. Your logs show that you’re rendering an auto save of an auto save of an auto save of an auto save of your original project, which you put in “New folder.” If you have to go back an use an auto save for some reason, once you open it, do a “Save As” and store the AEP back in your project folder. Use version numbers, and use the Increment and Save feature often.

2) Your logs don’t show the results of encoding the image sequence.

3) Don’t use AME to write an image sequence. Use the After Effects Render Queue directly:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/basics-rendering-exporting.html

Walter Soyka
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Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Joe Kaye]

I recently had a similar render issue and it was down to 1 layer buried down a few subcomps. in AE scroll the playhead along the timeline and look for a point (probably where the render crashes) where the display stops updating – if this is the case you need to look at exactly what’s going on in the sequence at that point and turn off layers until the display updates again. Then you will at least know what’s causing the freeze/crash and will have to find a way to replace the media/effects at that point

My particular layer I decided was probably just too big (it was a huge texture for the background in a 3d comp) so I used the scale comp script to halve the size and got things working again (i also unlinked it’s proxy file – it may have been a corrupted/too large image file)