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need urrgent help – render failed
I get a ‘render failed’ immediately after i hit the render button. I have the secret prefs set to purge every 15 frames. Have a video that needs to be rendered ASAP!!! Thank you!!!
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Thanks for the fast response Dave!!! wow! My footage is standard DV widescreen format. It’s strange because i move ahead in the time line to about 3 seconds in and it renders fine. I am using heavy particles, 3000+, with particular, but i have rendered out this same sequence previously with no trouble. Any ideas?
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have you tried rendering out as an image sequence?
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no i have not. To be honest i have never used an image sequence 🙁
What is the best way/format to do it? I don’t need it to be anything special, i am exporting to a DVD, so i am going to drop it in premiere, mess with audio, then export it out. Thanks so much for you help! -
what codec are you rendering too? if you’re not rendering to something genereic you might try rendering to something like lossless mov.
since it happens immediately, it would seem to be a problem loading something. since the otehr footage is dv and you can read that fine for previews, i suspect that ae is having problems loading the encoder for the render.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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I am rendering to quicktime photo-jpeg. I have rendered to this before many times with no issues, plus when i render 3 seconds in, it works fine, hmmm strange.
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try setting memory to default or even a little lower than that. that way the memory won’t crash the render. and a tiff sequence would save time from where it crashed before.
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I tried lowering the RAM usage, no go. But i did find out that it is the 28th frame that is causing the problem. I went from by frame backwards starting at about a 50 frames in, and found that AE crashes every time at the 28th frame. I have no idea what would be causing this.
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OK! so i think i figured it out, this is also good to know for anyone who is using particular. I extended the particular layer past, (backwards) it’s original IN point. I know you can do this easily with other layers no problem, but with particular it doesn’t seem to work and, at least in my case, and it locked up my system. So thanks to everyone for your help, you’re all awesome!!
Zach
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What do you mean by that. I don’t understand you. I have same problem : failed render, and i’ve tried everything on this forum and it’s still failing. I’m using particular, so i would try what you did, but i don’t understand you. Thanks in advance
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Just make sure the layer that is using Particular is not extended past actual duration of the layer. If you move the particular layer forward in time, and decide you want to start the particular effects sooner, don’t drag the beginning of the layer to extend the time, you have to move the actual layer, not the front of it.
This is what fixed my problem. Not extending the layer past the original length.
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