[David Aldridge]

I just tested…. if I set this up and “preview from here” the menu I am testing, the menu and timeline works as expected…. as soon i render current motion menu or slide show however, from within the preview mode, which you have to do to see animations….. but I don’t have to do because I am not animating…. but I do it anyway, i lose the main timeline audio in preview. The menu audio works, its the main footage audio that drops off.

my quirky image button technique or encore preview quirk?

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[David Aldridge]

yes – adding images to timeline in encore.

working in photoshop, with buttons is not something I am super knowledgeable… getting the still square/rectangular image to mask behind a non square button, without messing up button functions, having the image be the bottom layer in the button sequence, something I read somewhere else … I don’t know all the button rules and regulations in photoshop. In Encore I drop the photos on the timeline, set the poster frame points and they work, or so I think.

since I posted i am testing an my timeline works in all regards but the audio doesn’t play… so is it a poster frame point, or an Encore preview quirck, which I have heard is common…. without rendering to disc…. to find out.. sucks.

i agree to a phototshop button person editing buttons would be easy

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[David Aldridge]

Awesome…. I don’t see any frame errors, I am going to assume the Renders are solid ok. thx.

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[David Aldridge]

I had a crashing situation, sudden shut down on a PC… did all things mentioned above…it ended up being the firewall zonealarm. Not only did the firewall cause the crash, it was slowing things down too. Just in case the others things don’t work …

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[David Aldridge]

yes – the files appear to preview OK, but it is supposedly just 1 frame and maybe I can’t see it glitch as it goes by… and I don’t want a glitch in the DVD menu transitions to show up later after I have authored in Encore if the glitch freezes during playback or something while playing the final DVD

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[David Aldridge]

reviving an old post here… Question 1…..I get the same error… a failed frame due to multiple frames render settings etc. The question is – AE says it switcthed from background to foreground rendering at frame 123, … does this mean the render is good? who cares ultimately for this specific render if it was accomplished back or foreground, worry about setting next render.

Comment 1…..as for log file location – it appears that AE creates a log folder in the same folder location as your project and names the log file the same name as your project with a bunch of log goobiloo junk appended to the file name…. nose around in the project folder. This might be useful if you already closed out the render files in AE render queue and can not get to the screen shot information shown above. NOTE, I just happened to set my render file out file to the same folder as my project…. so I may have established this folder location when I did that… either look in the render folder location if you created one somewhere else other than the root project drive/folder… or look in the root project folder/file location.

I am running AE cloud now. My sig might be wrong, if it matters

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[David Aldridge]

I ended up stripping my PC down to 1 SSD HD and successfully rendered and authored a Blu Ray MG4 that played on VLC. and I only had about 12 gig of space left to do all the encoding, caching and read write in.

I tried a million other things first and thought I was close when I took the pc off the net, unistalled Zonealarm, disabled windows firewall. I was able to render about 30 minutes max before freezing. I tried switching from my 2nd and 3rd SSD drives I use to read and write which had limited room 40 gig to my old school sata drives with 200 gig. all I could get was about 30 minutes then freeze.

I tried hacking everything… the problem all along is the event viewer showed nothing. no dump file – I had nothing to work with. What i did notice is once zonealarm was removed the encoding almost doubled or tripled in speed.

I have multiple USB external drives, and 4 internal SATA drives for storage.. these are all currently removed. I don’t know what caused the freezing.. I wil start adding the 2 SSD drives back in… and leave it there if it works… report back later for those 100’s of people following this thread.

I can’t possibly tell you everything I tried… everything from codecs, to removing QT, stress testing, chasing after countless event viewer clues, file permissions, media cache management, considered dumping the GTX460 video card because it isn’t officially recognized by Adobe… – I might not solve this if the 2 SSD go in OK because I am stopping there if it works. been working on this for a long time. want it to be over.

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[David Aldridge]

EDIT, about 5 minutes later after I posted this… crash and burn, no BSOD, no minidump, no event veiwer clues.

changed my memory preference from 11g adobe 5g system to 13g adobe 3g system
changed start up option msconfig to start only MS programs
Took ownership (user permissions) of all Adobe folders
Took ownership of the Neat Video folder/files
took a different clip of media to preclude bad media
Left my memory preference set to performance
closed premiere and ran encoder solo
currently clocking my I7 2600 at 4hgz and 1.4vcore
running cuda and neat video

currently on a world record render… 55 minutes and counting.

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