“Error: problem invoking Levels” etc..?

[Kevin Camp]

if your system specs are correct, you’re running ae7 on a macpro… many of ae’s color correction effects are opengl accelerated. in my experience running ae7 on a macpro, any opengl accelerated effect gave me problems unless i did one of two things…

1. just disable opengl completely in the ae’s preview preference. uncheck the use opengl acceleration, and set previews to use adaptive resolution.

2. if for whatever reason you want to continue to struggle with ae7 and keep opengl active, only apply opengl accelerated effects to adjustment layers. for some reason that seemed to help most of the time. (i think there is a list of opengl accelerated effects in the help file/manual, although you may have other third party effects that use opengl).

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Jimmy Brunger]

Thanks Kevin, I didn’t know AE’s CC effects used open GL…didn’t think ANYTHING in AE actually made use of it! 😉

I actually have OGL turned off completely anyway – due to Knoll Light Factory getting nasty with it on..

Anymore ideas?

Thanks,
Jim.

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[Kevin Camp]

i haven’t used ae7 on a macpro since we got cs3… i can’t remember which osx 10.4 version i was using back then, but there may be an issue with ae7 and the later 10.4 versions….

since windows and palettes are having redraw issues, i’m tempted to say it may be an opengl/graphics card problem. the fact that two different machines are having the same problem makes it less likely that it is a hardware problem, but it could be driver issue that may have been part of a later os update.

in cs3 there is an option to disable opengl for interface drawing acceleration, but i don’t think ae7 has that option. you might try removing the opengl plugin from the ae7 plugins folder just to see if that helps.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Jimmy Brunger]

Turned out it was a comp I had applied some CC to and then Radial Fast Blur + Shine. It needed to be continually rasterized for the shine to work properly and that was crashing it. I took the shine+radial off and applied them inside that comp, expanded comp size to allow for bleed out and then it worked!?!

Very random. Seems like a fairly normal workflow for me, but AE just goes mental with it and can’t handle it. Here’s another weird anomaly – this section in question WOULD preview with continual rast on, but wouldn’t render!

Go figure.

Sooner we get CS3 the better!

AE7 Pro – Nucleo – Mocha v1.2.0 – PS CS3 – FCP 5.1.4
MacPro Quad 3GHz / ATI 1900XT / 8GB RAM / OSX 10.4.11
30″ ACD / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / XServe RAID
———————————
Production Studio CS2 – Combustion 3 – Mocha v1.0.1
Win XP Pro 32 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5s / Sony BVM-20G1E / 2 x Dell 2007FP / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 110GB/80GB/600GB RAID-0