Quicktime goes white at the end

[Tom Brooks]

I’ve seen this, but don’t know why it happens. I’ve worked around by adding black to end of comp, render it out, then lop off the useless white in QuickTime Pro.

[Jimmy Zito]

Happened to me one time too. Did the same thing with the black at the end. But I’ve rendered out to QT many times since, and it it hasn’t happened again. Weird.

[Jim Tierney]

This can happen when AE (or more usually a plugin) runs out of memory. The frame fails to render, but AE keeps going and (I think) provides a blank image to QT which renders it as white. Usually this doesn’t continue for long before the render fails. Check the render queue to see if the render finished or not. I’ve seen it occur for about 30-40 frames at the most before it causes a render failure.

If it continues to happen, break the render up into two sections. Render one out, restart AE, then render the second section out.

cheers,
Jim

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Jim Tierney
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[Tim Bond]

Jim,
thanks – i’ll try that as the render had failed about about two thirds of the way in and maybe buy some more memory.
Tim

[Steve Roberts]

If memory is the problem, have you tried purging memory during a render by using the “secret” prefs?

Search the COW (you might need to search the archives) on “secret” or “schecret”.

Steve