What the hell is after effects’ problem?

[Todd Kopriva]

Have you updated to After Effects CS4 (9.0.2)?

That update fixed some crashing bugs, including some crashes on quit.

BTW, ranting isn’t quite as effective some other things.

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[Mike Roberts]

I’m fully updated. But yes, I know ranting isn’t the best way to handle it, but so far, submitting bugs, and opening support tickets at adobe isn’t helping either. I’ve re-installed CS4 twice now. 9.0.2 didn’t fix any of my crashes.

Pretty much every forum I’ve found on the crash on quit problem has hundreds of people left with no solution and lots of people saying they fixed theirs with various means. I’m going to try dowsing rods next.

Maybe a clean install of snow leopard and then migration might help. But the thought of reactivating all my plugins makes my head hurt.

Can’t is just work? This type of nonsense is why i stopped using a PC! Us self employed dudes can’t have a full time IT dept.

[Todd Kopriva]

If you’ve contacted Adobe technical support and not gotten a solution, I can help to escalate your issues. (No, I can’t promise to fix your problem—as that is far from being my job—but I can pass a case number along and say “Hey! Answer this guy!”)

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[Mike Roberts]

Thanks Todd,

I’d really appreciate that. The audio scrub = freeze (then force quit) has been happening since I’ve been using after effects… That’s across about 6 systems, with 15 installations of After effects of different generations.

The crash on quit happens on every CS4 product. My VISA card was an early adopter of CS4… so i’ve been through all the updates so far.

How do i get in contact, on your blog page?

[Adolfo Rozenfeld]

The crash on quit for all CS4 applications is not really a crash. It’s a very rare case in which the Adobe Crash Reporter thinks the application crashed. For AE, this problem was fixed in 9.02. All cases I’ve seen are from people who had prerelease versions of CS4 applications in their machine. Again, at least for AE it should be fixed in 9.02.

Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe

[Mike Roberts]

Hmm… what’s pre-release..? Like a Beta release? Ya, I wish I had that kind of time to beta test. It’s hard enough to meet my deadlines as it is without editing someone else’s homework. I was running CS3 until i bought CS4 in may. I’ve been looking around and have found lots of people still having this problem. I can’t speak for them having “pre-release” software. Does CS3 count as pre-release CS4?? haha.

But that doesn’t explain my audio scrubbing lock up… I’d love to know if there’s a button that would fix that. Happens with Open GL, no open GL, mondays, even on Tuesdays!

So if you’ve never seen a crash on quit with 9.0.2 can I send it to you the next time I get it?

[Adolfo Rozenfeld]

So if you’ve never seen a crash on quit with 9.0.2 can I send it to you the next time I get it?

Please by all means do so. In fact, I do read a bunch of the crash reports sent by users. Please include contact info and configuration details in the next one.

I never said that I never saw a crash on quit on 9.02. Just that the behavior in which all CS4 application report a crash on exit is related to a rare problem with the Crash Reporter itself, and that I personally only heard from cases related to prerelease software. Evidently, it seems that may not be always the case. If the app shows the same workspace you had before the crash the next time you launch it, that would point to the problem I mentioned. If it doesn’t, then it would be a sign it crashed, indeed.

Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe

[Mike Roberts]

Thanks for that… I’ll check next time it happens.

Any ideas about that audio scrub beef?

[Adolfo Rozenfeld]

You mean the app crashes when control/command dragging the Current Time Indicator?
I personally have not seen it. Please do send a bug report with full configuration details (AE version, OS version, CPU, RAM, graphics and audio hardware/drivers, etc).

Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe

[Todd Kopriva]

> How do i get in contact, on your blog page?

If you send me the case number for the instance in which Adobe Technical Support did not adequately serve you, I can send that along through the escalation path. My email address is kopriva at adobe dot com.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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