[David Hitt]

Just tested all your suggested settings. Kevin, the only thing I did differently from your suggestions was that I set the disk cache to a THIRD hard drive I have on this machine, rather than the system drive. My system drive is only an 80 giger with only about 15 free. I thought it might be wiser to use the extra 1tb drive I recently installed. Anyway, I tried rendering out the entire project I was having difficulty with and it rendered flawlessly!

Of course, yesterday, I had someone install 64 bit vista on this workstation, as well, so I theoretically will have multiple options. I have been told that cs4 and vista 64 work well together. We’ll see. I’m just glad that I made progress addressing the XP64/CS3 issues.

Thanks!

Dave Hitt

[David Hitt]

I will try these settings and test on the file that was giving me problems. Again, thanks for the insights!

Dave Hitt

[David Hitt]

Hey there —

I will try all these things but I also ordered a copy of Windows Vista 64 bit today and CS4. It is my understanding that, with Vista 64, I will be able access more than just four gigs of RAM. The machine currently has eight.

Thanks SO much everyone for offering the advice. I very much appreciate it!

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Dave Hitt

[David Hitt]

Hey Dave:

Indeed I did. Nothing that I could find which related to this issue, when searching under either “secret” or “preferences” or both.

Today, however, I was talking to https://www.videoguys.com. Upon hearing that I was running Windows XP 64 Bit, he interrupted what I was saying and said,”I bet you’re having memory addressing issues when you’re rendering, right?” Apparently they’ve seen this issue many times with the CS3/XP 64 bit combo. He recommended I upgrade the OS to Vista 64 Business and upgrade AE to CS4, all of which I did today.

We’ll see…

Dave Hitt

[David Hitt]

Hey there:

Unfortunately, OpenGL was already turned off, both in previews and in renders. Also, I couldn’t find any “secret preferences” on my Windows machine. Holding down shift seemed to do nothing. However, I was sure to purge all buffers before I rendered anyway, so I doubt that was the issue…

Oh well…

Dave Hitt

[David Hitt]

Hey Dave:

I will test tomorrow and let you know. Much appreciative of your time…

Dave Hitt

[David Hitt]

Dave:

Thanks for responding to my post. It’s great that you noticed it; I actually read some of your other responses and got gutsy enough to actually try calling you at the station.

The footage we’re using is uncompressed Quicktime…We’re also having these issue with just pure animation we’ve produced, which only has a soundtrack and no effects…

As I mentioned, what seems odd to me is that the workstation is fine, in terms of previews and overall workflow. It only kicks when we try to render the project out. And, sometimes, it has rendered the project out to uncompressed avi, but only about twenty five percent of the time…

We have another large project incoming and I’m trying to determine if I can iron this problem out or if I should be looking for a new machine, and what platform that machine should be…

Dave Hitt