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HELP – AE suddenly started crashing on render
Yesterday it worked fine, I rendered a 3min piece to QT – animation. Today, after some minor modifications the mac started crashing. It crashes sometime at the end of rendering process. It stops responding, making awfull sounds with the red light turned on.
What could be the problem? And BTW is there a CTRL+ALT+DELETE option on mac or similar?
Thank you very much, I managed to finish the project almost in time and now I can’t deliver it.
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6 Replies
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There is a Control+Alt+Delete, it is Command+Option+Escape. As far as crashing, what are you rendering? I have had this problem on an older mac when I modified some of Zaxwerks rendering to open GL and raised the render settings to a much higher setting. (The mac did not have the open GL card, and I was testing some functionality) The Mac endeed up crashing. I have also seen it crash when there is too much computations going on (Alot of pre-comps with a lot of scripts written within) and the computer can’t keep up with all that is happening.
My personal solution was to render out a few of the pre-comps I had made, then reimport them in as finished quicktime movies. This allowed the machine to perform the computations one section at a time, and complete the master project without any trouble. (Except it took a little while longer)
…but without knowing what you are doing or accomplishing, I don’t exactly know how to answer. I do hope this helps, though.Tim
Tim
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I “fixed” the problem. Apparently there was a layer too much in the composition. I put adjustment layer on top of everything and applied guassian blur effect. When I deleted it it worked ok. BTW, do you know how could I export it to mpeg2? I need to deliver it to TV station and I have this https://homepage.mac.com/major4/download.html codec. It makes two files when I choose mpeg2 format and the size is not correct – it adds space on the left and right end of the movie.
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I’ll be honest, I’ve never used that program, so I can’t exactly tell you what to do with it. I take it you do not have Apple’s Compressor program?
Tim
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No, I don’t have nothing. My first project on mac and I know on windows there was built in mpeg2 enc in AE. Now I’m stuck. I don’t even know that much about formats for TV and I have to complete it today. I have to deliver them by puting the file on the server for download, so uncompressed is not a very good idea. Can you suggest something?
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Can you transfer the file over to a Window$ machine with AE on it and render it out the way you would like?
I have worked in Compressor and found it to be best suited for most everything I need, so I haven’t ventured out and explored any other programs. I honestly do not know what to tell you. iDVD maybe?Tim
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I put the mov in the Final Cut now. There is an export function and compressor opens. How to make one mpeg2 file with it with the extension .mpg?
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