[Jeremy Mayhew]

I’m having the exact same problem and I’m using Premiere CS5.5. Can’t figure this out for the life of me. Same problem occurs, even if I switch to FCP shortcut settings.

[Jeremy Mayhew]

Thank you everyone for the clarity!

[Jeremy Mayhew]

Hello Kai,

I’ve just returned from holiday travels and will be testing again soon. I never did find a solution to this problem. Have you? Has anyone else?

[Jeremy Mayhew]

Here’s my update:

4 Days of troubleshooting later… I’m still having the same problem with the Render Queue and Quicktime. I’ve run DiskWarrior on my drives (no issues there). Additionally, I’ve discovered that the same issue occurs while running from any hard drive setup.

I can render PSD and TIF sequences fine… but any time I attempt to render out any type of Quicktime movie it hangs with the above mentioned error within 1-to-3 frames in. I’ve tried rendering out other, less processor intensive timelines as well. No luck and no avail.

I’m convinced this is a Quicktime X or Quicktime 7 issue. I’ve got Quicktime 7.6.3 installed. Is there a way to reinstall these? I’ve downloaded the Quicktime 7.6.9 installer from Apple but it tells me I can’t install because “Quicktime X is already present”!!! This whole Quicktime X thing drives me crazy!

Please, can someone help? I really don’t want to do a full system reinstall.

[Jeremy Mayhew]

Thanks for the reply Dave. I honestly haven’t installed anything new on my machine. I had been successfully rendering out huge image sequences without fail (on a regular basis). Then yesterday, AE just starts spitting that error out for all attempted renders.

As an update, I’ve copied the project over to my local drive and it actually gives the same problem so I’m not sure it’s related to the external drives.

Maybe I’ll try booting up from Disk Warrior and seeing if there’s something going on with my directories. Arg.

[Jeremy Mayhew]

I’m having the exact same problem, only it’s started occurring out of the blue. Nothing has been changed to items I’m attempting to render in the Render Queue, nothing new installed, no settings changed. All sequences that previously rendered out fine hang around 1-2 frames in giving me the following error message:

“After Effects error: Rendering error while writing to file “(file location)”. An output module failed. The file may be damaged or corrupted. (-1610153464).”

This is driving me crazy! I spent a full day and a half trouble shooting this to no avail. Trashed all AE preference files, repaired permissions, etc. The problem seems to have appeared suddenly and without cause.

I can render in the timeline but the Render Queue won’t render even one file!

I’m running AE CS5 on 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro, with 16 GB RAM. OS X Leopard 10.6.4. My project folder is located on an external eSata Raid with 2-month-old hard drives.

I’ve attempted to copy the entire project over to another raided eSata drive and had the same problem. When running the rendering the project from my local drive it appears to work. The odd part is I’ve never had any troubles running AE projects on eSata raids before. Could it be that all my esata raids are sketchy?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Jeremy Mayhew]

I’m having the same problem, only your solution didn’t work for me. I don’t have any 2D layers in my comp. This is really driving me mad! All shadows have just disappeared! Anyone else experience this? Any more ideas?

[Jeremy Mayhew]

Yep, same here. I’ve just finished a motion graphics piece with a small border to the video and Quicktime X is cutting it off! It really sucks to know that any clients running Snow Leopard won’t see my intended video imagery. Quicktime X sucks.

[Jeremy Mayhew]

I’m having the exact same problem. I’ve got Rosetta, AE 9.0.2, and when I try to open the app… nothing happens. 🙁

Did you ever figure out what the issue was? Multiple restarts aren’t helping me. Is it something to do with system caches maybe?

[Jeremy Mayhew]

I have the same problems as the rest of the gang here. I’m working with FCP 7. None of your suggestions have helped me. I still playback and see but one of the angles in the canvas window… rather than the 9 I’m needing to edit with! Is this a Final Cut Pro v7 issue? Did anyone else resolve this? It’s driving me crazy!