[Jeff Morey]

Hi all I’m having the same issue.

I tried Matt’s suggestion and it didn’t work for me…. I started getting this error last week and have tried re-installing AE 2x, running disk utility/cleaner, emptying cache, deleting preferences, quitting chrome (and everything else), changing codecs, etc. Previewing correctly ONLY happens when i click on a panel menu pulldown after I hit spacebar/0/period – when the contextual menu appears, preview starts playing correctly. When I release the mouse (and the contextual menu disappears) I lose the RAM green bar and it plays all chunky and messed up again, with that error message (but the message only appears sometimes).

Preview generally is not being saved in RAM at all… the little green indicator bar over the timeline loses it’s green after just a couple frames (it used to span for several seconds… I have 26G RAM dedicated to AE. Unless I click and hold on a menu pulldown at the same time for duration of the preview.

I hope this is resolved soon! thanks all!

[Jeff Morey]

I tried this, and it worked (thank you artisanal!!), but 2 questions….

1. how to render out of AE with those settings, and retain the toggled PAR? rendering straight up lossless, or other usual codecs (photo jpg etc) outputs a squished 4:3 quicktime, and if in the output module i choose to “Strech” to something like 1280 x 720, and render out as DVCPRO HD 720P60 (choosing 24fps), the rendered quicktime appears to be the right PAR, but the image is slightly fuzzy….

is there a better way to output DVCPRO HD footage from AE? What I’m doing, based on the advice by artisanal, and trying various things in the output module, seems convoluted, makes only some sense, and is bizarrely (in my mind) undocumented and not addressed by adobe… Perhaps i have missed something completely, I feel like I must have….

Please if anyone has better methods to the above, or other discoveries, post them! 🙂 🙂
many many thanks to all
jeffm