render stopping

[Edward Wu]

Hi Dave,

What error message are you getting?

One thing you can try is to change your QuickTime Player to Safe Mode. To do this, go to your Quicktime player. Select Edit > Preferences > Quicktime Preferences. Go to the “Advanced” tab, and check the setting for “Safe Mode”. This may help with the rendering issue you are running into.

Hope this helps.

Best,
Edward

[Dave Fleming]

Hi Edward,

No error message whatsoever. The render screen just goes away at about 2/3 of the way through the render and the partially rendered movie is deposited in the destination location.

I dug through old posts and saw a guy had a similar problem a few months ago, but he was using Proanimator through AE. I’m simply trying to run it as a standalone; not running any other program. Anyway, I followed the advice that he got, which was to section the movie up into several pieces. I rendered off the first 5 seconds, no problem. I tried the last 5 seconds and only got 60 frames completed before it stopped again. Then, I rendered the last 3 seconds into a 3rd movie.

It’s extremely frustrating to have a simple 10 second logo animation in HD with an alpha that needs to be broken up into 3 pieces just to get something workable, but at least I’ve got something.

I will try your QT player suggestion…Is this a memory issue?

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[Edward Wu]

Hi Dave,

It seems like a memory issue, but from the description of your project, it does not seem very complicated.

What are the system specs and the compressor settings you are using?

One other thing you can try is to reset your ProAnimator preference file. Do a search on “Zaxwerks ProAnimator Prefs” and “Zaxwerks PA Prefs” and delete the files if they exist.

Best,
Edward

[Susan Anson]

I have had issues like this. In my case I was able to resolve it by shutting off my Memeo Disk Backup Program in the system tray. It seems that Memeo was seeing a file that was being created and it grabbed the file and tried to archive it off onto my backup disk while the program was still rendering it. I also had an issue where disabling my antivirus and firewall temporarily during the render seemed to affect the outcome for some reason. I wonder if you might have some kind of competing resource that is interfering with your render?

Cheers,

Suzzie