[G.marshall]

Are you using any Cycore Effects (CC) plug-ins? I removed my CC plug-in as they are not compatible with AE7. You might want to try removing your OpenGL 3D plug-in as well. AE7 would hang up and crash like crazy on my Mac Pro and on my MacBook Pro until I removed the plug-ins. The memory should be lowered as well, but in my case, it wasn’t until the plug-ins were removed that the program started to run without it crashing every time I RAM previewed.

AE CS3 is shipping in July 2007.

Hope that helps…

Greg

[G.marshall]

Hi Jen,

I had to remove the Cycore FX plug-in folder and the OpenGL3D plug-in as well for it to render. It still crashes on occasion, even with the plug-ins removed, but nowhere as near as bad with the plug-ins running. Unfortunately the Cycore plug-ins just don’t seem to work properly. I just got a response from Cycore. Here’s what they wrote:

“It seems this problem affects all CFM plugins on Macintel and currently there’s nothing that we know of that we can do to fix this. The problem is related to Rosetta (apple’s PPC emulator) and we believe that only Apple and Adobe can find out why it happens and find a possible fix for it. We’re ready to do whatever we can to help out.

We’re about to release an updated version (mach-O) of Cycore FX HD that doesn’t have this problem, however I believe that you are going to use the Cycore FX standard version that ships with AE7 so this won’t help you out. Is that the case?

Nils”

So Cycore FX HD is about to come out, but this won’t help you immediately. Their web address is:
https://www.cycorefx.com/

My memory setting seems to work at 50% and 50%. I have 9 GB of RAM in a Quad Xeon.

Hope that helps.
Greg

[G.marshall]

I can’t get AE7 to run well at all on my Mac Pro which has 9 GB of and a NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500. After lowering the memory settings it still crashes like crazy on RAM previews and renders. Did the same thing on the MacBook Pro as well. On the Mac Pro, even a simply Fast Blur will cause it to hang up. This is a brand new Mac Pro Quad Core 3 Ghz.

Time for Mac users to bail on After Effects?