[Paul Stevenson]

Thanks for the replies chaps.

I followed your suggestion and so far through my testing it hasn’t gone wrong yet 😀

I don’t think you have suggested anything I haven’t done, I just maybe haven’t done it all at the same time.

So I am off now to carry on with the fiddling.

Cheers.

[Paul Stevenson]

Are you closing AE as soon as you see the “After Effects has stopped responding” message?

If you are on a Windows 7 box that can pop up rather too quickly and the program is actually still working fine. I see it all the time, I just let my computer catch up with itself and it’s fine. Only vary rarely does it actually stop working.

[Paul Stevenson]

I have never seen that, but then again I don’t really use particle world.

Just as a matter of interest what happens if you up the colour depth? I assume your working in 8bit?

Depending how it looks in motion, what you are seeing could be described as clipping.

If you can provide a download for your file or an explanation of how to recreate it I would be happy to see if it does it to me.

Oh just one thing, make sure you are using “Adaptive resolution – Open GL off” in the fast preview window. I have never seen anything I like with open GL being on.