There is no footage. It is just gfx that are created in ae. At first this was happening with 1080 24p footage that was given to me as an uncompressed quicktime. I removed that footage and still get the same problem.
I have been playing with and i cant get any rendre to complete. Everything crashes the app. the mac will not let me force quit it. I have to turn the mac off in order to get ae to quit.