[Jbair]

TikiTim on the Adobe boards has found a solution. It requires going into the After Effects preferences and turning off Asynchronous file reading and writing.

I had to change:
“Asynchronous file reading and writing” = 01
to
“Asynchronous file reading and writing” = 00

I needed to do this for both AE 6.5.1 and 8.0.1.

Here’s a link to the thread with the solution:
https://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c054946/2

This solution works, but it’s confusing since I’ve never had this problem on other machines. The problematic machine is the newest and fastest of the bunch, so it’s disconcerting that it had this error. Hopefully, I’ll get more insight into the details of this problem.

Thanks,
John

[Jbair]

Quicktime is version 7.2 (I could upgrade to 7.3, but 7.2 is on my other machines, and they render DPX files just fine).

[Jbair]

The project is 16 bpc, but I’ve tried 32 bpc and 8 bpc with no luck.

[Jbair]

The machine cannot render either Cineon or DPX file sequences, although it can read and use these formats (it just fails trying to write them). By the way, the machine is running XP SP2.

[Jbair]

I’ve tried rendering to several different drives, and just tried 8.3 file naming. Neither solves the error. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

John