[Macdabby]

I have this same issue, but mine can’t be related to the codec at all! I am usually working with DV50 when I first noticed this a year ago in CS3. Now I am on CS4 and I just had this problem on a project which has only a couple motion JPEG and plain text and very basic filters. in watch the reder queue, it gets stuck on “retrieving footage” for layer 4. Layer 4 is a text layer that’s turned off!

Also, while rendering, the whole system is locked up, i can’t even tab to safari or calculator. I would like to be able to do minor tasks while it’s rendering but i can live without. But then when the rendering ends, my system is still unusable until AE quits.

The render queue says only 60% of 3GB is used – my system has 4GB installed. I am on snow leopard also and have run all the updates for system and AE.

Any ideas?

[Macdabby]

I think this is just a bug in the software on PPC systems. I have a project with a 10 second long motion file – it is basic text, a small image, and a little it of motion. Its a motion 3 file and FCP2. I put it into a FCP sequence, and tried to render it. On my dual G5 2ghz/4gig ram it takes 10 minues – on my less equiped quad 3ghz xeon with 2gig, it takes 10 seconds – granted the PPC is a faster machine, its not 60x faster and should not account for that much of a speed difference. Hopefully apple will fix this soon – i’ll report it on their bug page.