Gates Bradley
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I’m running the latest update of After Effects CC (12.2 I think it is), and I still can’t load After Effects. It freezes on “loading Mediacore”. Is there a solution? Cuz I’ve been combing through forums for hours. I even deleted all of my plugins to see if that would do the trick. Nope.
I waited months to install Mavericks (through two updates to it!), and all of these problems still exist? What gives?
As a side, Premiere’s functionality is also crippled as well.
Adobe, please tell me you’ve figured this out by now?
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Thanks Kevin. That’s what I did. I found a preference somewhere to dictate which folder you could install to. For some reason it had changed to my documents folder, but all is well now. Appreciate your helping me out!
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Sure thing Dave! Let me elaborate…
The writing is in Greek. I found a font that has support for Greek characters that looks relatively legit as a handwritten font. Actually handwriting the text would be a huge pain. There is no animating on of the text, but there is a camera move over the text (think macro lens).
I chose to make the text in After Effects 1) because I still think it handles text creation better than Illustrator or Photoshop, and 2) because I need to make templates for a number of texts, and it’s easier to manipulate/make changes keeping it all in one program than bouncing back from Illus./PS to AE. (That being said, if creating misaligned text is a much easier process within either of those Apps, I’d give it a go).
Hope that clarifies things a bit.
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Jessica, I will give that a go and report back. It seems plug-ins in general are the cause of this. Perhaps Red Giant, Video Copilot, etc haven’t updated their code for multi-processing. Whatever reason, it’s a shame- I use plugins constantly.
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[Nick Anderson] “Before, it would just not do anything and when I clicked stop it would show me the error.”
Nick, did you ever figure it out? I’m having the same issue. When I hit render, nothing happens. I can even select different panes within the app. It says it is rendering, but no progress in the render timeline, no frame count, no render time clock ticking. I hit ‘stop’ and then i get the error message.
I had a 4 hour tech support session with Adobe, where I screen shared my computer. The guy thought he solved it by moving everything to my local drive, but that doesn’t seem to work any more. I can render without multi-processing, but it’s pretty slow.
I’ve tried to different output modules, to no avail. I did have some layers that had VC Optical Flares on them, though I don’t have that plugin (inherited the project file). I deleted those layers, but still the same problem. It’s driving me totally bonkers.
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Likewise I’m interested in knowing the same. Though I would be maxing out my RAM. I realize Apple is really fallen out of favor when it comes to professional machines, but I love the stability and workflow of OSX. I’m really just looking for something that will allow me to work in AE without frames taking 1 sec or more to calculate, slowing me down tremendously.
I thought i had that problem solved with my OpenCL/Mercury compatible Mid-2011 17″ Macbook Pro, but working on it still feels much the same as things always have for the past 6 or so years (even with 16GB RAM), which is extremely frustrating (maybe I just over-estimated the power of even a high-end laptop for graphics work).
Anyway, deciding between new iMac and hackintosh. Whichever route I went would cost roughly the same (because I’d need a 2nd monitor). It seems like performance vs. stability. Just want to know if I can have my stability (iMac) and still expect a good level of professional performance.
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I know this thread is quite old, but I imagine there is. At the post house where I used to work the post supervisor enabled it so we could have 2 after effects projects open at the same time. I’m not quite sure how he did it, but I am going to look into it. I just remember it seemed he tricked the computer into thinking there was a second iteration of AE.
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Yes I am running 6.0.1. I’ve tried exporting from both Premiere directly, and Media Encoder.
One piece of pertinent info I forgot to mention is that my sequence begins with a decently intense, nested AE comp. Still, like I said, the sequence is completely rendered, and ‘use previews’ is selected, so to my knowledge this isn’t suppose to be a factor.
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Just a note, as I was having the same question. I don’t if this solution is for Windows, but although I have CS6, to edit the keyboard shortcuts you have to click on the application name, and the commend itself is under Panels>Timeline Panel>Add Clip Marker.
Now if we could just get Adobe to give us a GUI keyboard editor…
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I’m running Premiere CS 5 (i’m exporting right now, so can check the sub-version number, but I update regularly), on a 2011 17″ Macbook Pro 2.2ghz core i7 with 8GB of RAM on OSX 10.7.2. Everything is running off of internal drives, so there shouldn’t be a risk of a drive disconnect issue.
It seems that changes don’t affect random clips, but rather all the clips in a track. So that a change of a clip will require re-rendering of every clip in that track. Is that how things work? Even still, it does not explain why my render files would disappear open re-opening a project.
Is there any other info you might need? Thanks for your help.