[Ed Purver]

You probably figured this out months ago, but I was experiencing exactly the same issues as you (project window very very slow after saving) and I solved it by just turning off ‘render frames simultaneously’ in memory preferences when I’m working in the project (and then turning it back on when I’m ready to render).

[Ed Purver]

Yeah, right, that is a lot of information! Thanks for your reply, Dave. Yes, all of the footage I am using is Animation codec – there is nothing else in terms of footage. However, yesterday I imported a new folder of approx 30 movies (all animation codec, ranging in size from 500mb to 2gb each. Now AE is having real trouble just scrolling through them in the project window. I get the mac OSX spinning beachball of death most of the time when I am trying to scroll down just to select an item with my mouse, and now it just totally crashed and disappeared when I was trying to do just that.

I don’t think that this is related to my initial render queue problem, but I’m also now wondering if there is a limit to the amount of footage that AE CS4 can handle referring to in one project?

Just in case anyone’s hungry for another ton of crash info, I posted the latest crash log, too:
https://www.edpurver.com/ae_crash02.txt

[Ed Purver]

Well, I wondered if my project had simply got too big, so I cut it down to what I only need now. However, last night it made it through several comps in the queue and then crashed completely – ie disappeared and made a crash report. I don’t have the knowledge to understand what this crash report is telling me, but I’ve posted it up online in case you or anyone else has a moment to take a look and tell me what it means.

It’s here:
https://www.edpurver.com/ae_crash.txt

thanks again for your help.

[Ed Purver]

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated!

Hamid, yeah, I have render preview disabled.

Steve, I’ve been looking at the Activity Monitor, and I can see the aeselflink processes running that AE starts up for each cpu. The percentage of cpu that they consume spikes every time that the render process moves on to the next item in the queue, and does that thing where it sits and thinks before rendering the frames. Sometimes it manages to move on to the next comp in the queue just fine. But when it doesn’t, this is exactly where it crashes. It creates the next file but fails to render any frames, leaving an incomplete .mov file of 0kb.

It just did it again, and I looked at the activity monitor while AE span uselessly in the background. Nothing seemed to look really strange, except that After Effects was now in red. But I don’t claim to really understand the activity monitor fully. I put some screenshots online, in case anyone has time to take a look and give me any feedback.

https://www.edpurver.com/ae_1.png
https://www.edpurver.com/ae_2.png
https://www.edpurver.com/ae_3.png

I really need to get this fixed, because overnight renders just stop and hang after a few comps and I’m losing hours of precious rendering time.

[Ed Purver]

Thank you!