Mike Procunier
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Multiple machines can’t render the same movie file at the same time. Plus, if your render is interupted or crashes, you’ll still have all of the frames up to that point. Just import your psd sequence and render it as the movie of your choice. It’ll only take a few minutes, since its basically just writing a new file.
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When you collect files make sure you select “Enable Watch Folder Render”. Also make sure that your render machine all of the fonts, plugins and codecs required to render the project. An .html file is created in the render folder for each render. Open it up. In it you can access the log that will tell you if there are problems.
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When you reimport a rendered clip does it show it’s framerate as 8fps in the project window? How are you previewing? The zero key or spacebar?
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I tried the import as GIF trick. Very nifty. It stopped all of the freezing. However I had some weirdness with transfer modes. I set the clip to “Color Dodge” at 70% opacity. It looked fine as I was working and previewing, but on the final render it acted as if it was set to “Normal”, darkening everything below it. The really weird thing is that it rendered properly in 1 instance in the Comp. Possibly something to do with layer order?
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Is it a CMYK file?
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Drop your cache settings way down… also make sure autosave is on & saving every 5-10 minutes. You’re going to have to live with frequent crashes until AE CS3 is released. BTW, have you tried the FREE preview of CS3. It smokes on an 8-Core!!! It still has some weird issues, especially with AE7 projects & with certain codecs. Plus, Cycore & Keylight won’t be available until the full release. But, I’ve ironed it out enough to actually do real projects on it and it is COOL!
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This is getting really frustrating. I’ve been patiently waiting since November for the 2GB limit to get fixed. If it can’t get done or won’t get done please just let us know so we can find another solution. I know Apple threw everybody a curveball switching to Intel, but it’s been almost a year now already. Are the SD cards that small a part of your business now, that they recieve so little attention? We’re upgrading to 8-core Mac Pro’s to take advantage of their multi-processing with After Effects and there’s no way we’re going to run them on only 2GB of RAM. I’d hate to have my boss drop thousands on new HD Extreme’s (or AJA’s) then see the fix for the 2GB problem come out.
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Try opening a new AE8 project, then import your AE7 project into it. That was the only way I was able to open AE7 projects that had Blackmagic Codec footage in it. Just opening AE7 projects directly the Blackmagic footage was full of noise.
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It’s a render-only version After Effects. You can’t create, edit or even open projects with it. You install it on other machines on your network and they render your projects for you ( a Render Farm). You just have to make sure the other machines have the same plugins, fonts and codecs as those on your main machine. If you have enough extra machines it really speeds up renders. Even with only 1 extra machine you can start a new project while it renders.
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Try opening AE7 & rerendering the offending clips as Targa sequences (with no RLE compression). Then replace the files in your AE8 project with the Targa sequences. ( I tried Targa but I’ve been told any format without temporal compression shoyld work) It should work. I spent all day on the exact same problem & this was the only way I could defeat it.
By the way, was this an AE7 project that you opened in AE8, or did you start fresh in AE8?