[John M. rice]

Shoot. My apologies, Mylenium. I forgot to include your tutorials using expressions. I had just viewed the lens flare piece.
Thanks for the response. I’m sure a book on expressions will soon appear.
-JMR

[John M. rice]

For anyone who may have this issue, I have a tentative resolution… tentative only because I have not thoroughly tested it, but so far everything appears to be working.

On Adobe’s website forums one solution I found was to disable disk caching through the secret preference option (Shift + selecting preferences). Use adaptive resolution and not OpenGL. And reduce disk image caching: max mem usage to about 110% and max ram cache to 50%.

And the most helpful piece found yet, is to download AE 7.0.1.
https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=3563&fileID=3356

Thanks to Mylenium and rokplo for the assistance on this thread. I hope this info helps anyone who encounters what I did.

Thanks cow.

[John M. rice]

One more question.

Does Adobe provide support anywhere on their website for references about errors generated in After Effects? I have searched their site for this, but can find nothing of this sort. If not Adobe, anywhere else?

Appreciative for all the help.
-JMR

[John M. rice]

First off, thank you both for the quick responses.

Secondly, a problem I forgot to include is that I have used quicktime references, and it fails to render at all. the render bar in the comp appears, but just sits there and never advances. I will attempt a reinstall of After Effects, but I am weary of that because other video from different sources works fine.

Once again, thanks for the input and quick responses.