Still Getting Render Crashes >:(

[Kevin Camp]

you might also run the disk utility (applications>utilities) and repair permissions and check the disk for errors.

since it sounds like it may be a permissions problem. do you have multiple users on you system? and do you have more than one drive (like a boot drive and drive for your media)?

if so, you can set any non-boot drive to not use permissions in the get info panel from the finder. i would recommend this even if you are the only user.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Darby Edelen]

Repairing permissions under OS X will only affect system files, which have their correct default permissions stored in receipts. It’s still a good thing to do occasionally, but I don’t think it will help in these circumstances.

I’m almost positive, based on the error message and on the description of ‘the dreaded crash that happens 10 minutes into a render,’ that the original poster is using an older version of QuickTime. I don’t recall the version number that caused this problem (7.5.1?) but I know that it had something to do with iTunes/Apple TV rentals and permissions and that it was fixed in the next release (7.5.2?).

Darby Edelen

NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA

[Michael Brodner]

An older version of QT, it was! I updated to 7.4.1 last night and it seemed to work fine. I rendered all night long 🙂

Bones

[Tim Garber]

I have a question. Does it crash on the same frame and/or the same source every time? I just spent time with the same or very similar issue. Mine crashed on the same frame every time. My error mentioned the Color Correction plug-in “LEVELS” So I removed that effect and tested. Still crashed but the message became generic, “After effects can’t continue: sorry, After Effects crashed.” (0::42) I discovered that the source file had several bad frames in it. Fortunately for me the source file was a copy and the original was good.

[Tim Garber]

Dude you saved my life! I had a comp that would fail 62 frames in due to that unable to render error. I set my secret menu purge to 50 frames and got through it without a hitch. THANK YOU!

This should NOT be a secret menu option.