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Crashes.. and ready to go crazy!
Hey guys,
I wanted to know if anybody has come across AE crashing almost every time. Here is the situation:
I have been working on HD projects that consist mainly of After Effects, My problem is when I go to render the final It crashes just about every time. We are talking about hard crashes where the whole app closes. Even when we go to do a ram preview it just quits. I thought it might be a corrupt asset but it can’t be cause it might complete a render on a good day. I tried shutting off the plugins thinking it was one that went rogue but nope, crashed just the same. I reinstalled this program about 4 times while yelling obscenities and still the same thing. I have noticed that sometimes when a project renders I will have “video artifacts” in the video, therefore need to be re-rendered. Anybody having “issues” like this. Please help if you can cause all my hair has been pulled out!
Thanks!
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what’s your platform… mac? pc? mac os 10.4.8? windows xp pro? ram?
i’ve had similar app crashes with ae on a macpro, and i’ve linked many to the standard cycore effects that come with ae.
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I am running a G5 with 3 gigs of ram and 10.4.8, Whats strange about this is that sometimes it renders and orther times it does not. I had cycore on the system but in a backup folder. Let me see if that works. Thanks for the update!
Lee
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the issue with cycore effects seems to be primarily an intel mac problem… and if you’re not using them in your comp then they probably aren’t the problem.
you may want to try the secret menu — hold the shift key, then select ae>preferences (any pref), now select the preference pulldown and you should see one called secret. select secret and set the purge frame to 5, or 10 (it may take a few times to find a setting that will work)
note: sometimes the secret menu won’t come up unless i hold the mouse button the entire time, releasing only to select a pref option — old mac style (versus new windows like click and click again style).
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> I tried shutting off the plugins thinking it was one that went rogue but nope, crashed just the same. I reinstalled this program about 4 times while yelling obscenities and still the same thing. I have noticed that sometimes when a project renders I will have “video artifacts” in the video, therefore need to be re-rendered.,
Artifacts in rendered movies usually points to three things: Bad media or bad drives or bad drive connections.
These can cause crashes, too. AE seems to have a low tolerance for such glitches in data integrity. When faced with these challenges, I try to chunk the project into smaller rendering projects like pre-rendering all of the precomps and nests and replacing them with the movies.
Or;;;
Get the project open and immediately use the Increment and Save function. Now delete every unnecessary piece of media and comp and save after every deletion.bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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I decided to do a test and see if this had anything to do with memory. Maybe the section I was trying to render in HD was to much. the overall time length was about 1 minute. What I did was to render out 3 20-sec sections and what do ya know… it worked. Not sure if it was just luck that they rendered or if it really is a memory issue. Does AE have A file size limit?
Thank guys!
Lee
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