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render stall
I am getting a render stall. I’ve been doing some overnight renders and After Effects will get caught on one and stall, taking hours and hours to render what should take about 30 minutes (or in some cases, it never finishes and I have to quit the render).
I’ve had this problem in the past and someone had recommended upgrading from 6.5 to 6.5.1. That immediately took care of it and I didn’t have that problem for over six months…till now.
I have a 2.5 dual G5 with 2GB RAM and am running 10.3.9.
Don’t know if this is a factor at all…….The After Effects project is large. There are over 350 animations in it. They are all pretty simple animations though.
I am not trying to render them all at once. It has stalled when I’ve been trying to render only 20 or 30 at a time. And I do not have a lot of other applications open either.The render window says that it is using 70% of 2047 MB RAM available.
And the drive that I am rendering to has plenty of room.Thanks for any info….
AND…should I upgrade to OS 10.4??Alisa Placas
Lucid Animation
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Have you tried purging RAM during the render using the Secret Prefs? Try setting it to purge every 5 frames during Make Movie. Keep the Mac’s Activity Monitor on so you can watch RAM usage.
(to find the Secret Prefs, hold down shift when accessing AE’s prefs — keep the shift key down until you see the prefs dialog box)
Also, try rendering to a sequence of stills. Then when it stalls, you can stop it, then start it up again at that point without losing the whole movie. Maybe that’ll help.
And no, I don’t think upgrading to 10.4 will help, though I could be wrong.
Steve
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Thanks, Steve.
I remember accessing the secret prefs before, but I can’t seem to get them to show up now.
I’m holding down the shift key, but nothing but the regular prefs show up.I am also getting a weird error message. I try to delete something out of the render que and it tells me “You must have at least one output module per render item.” There is no reason for this dialogue box to show up. ???
Does it sound like my application or my project is becoming corrupt or something?
I’ve been running Scripts and resetting the Permissions via Cocktail and Disk Utility. I also rewrote the drive not too long ago with Disk Warrior. Is there any other maintainance stuff I could be doing?Alisa Placas
Lucid Animation
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Did you check that “secret” is available at the bottom of the list in the dialog? Did you hold down the shift key all the way till you see the last dialog box?
As for the “render item” message, I just ignore it.
Sorry, can’t speak for the maintenance stuff. Do you have non-Apple RAM running? Sometimes when a project gets to a certain point, it accesses RAM it hasn’t used before, and crashes because the RAM is bad or something.
Steve
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