[Todd Kopriva]

One piece of information that you’ll need for making sense of this:

QuickTime (MOV) and Video for Windows (AVI) are container formats. They don’t specify how video data is compressed and encoded. Within each container, you can encode audio and video data using various codecs.

So, you need to pay attention to what codecs you’re using. You can change codecs in the output module settings. For many formats, you choose the codec by clicking the Format Options button in the Output Module Settings dialog box.

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[Todd Kopriva]

The short answer is “no”.

There’s a tip at the bottom of this page that can get you part-way there if you really, really need to.

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[Todd Kopriva]

Read this post, which basically says that you shouldn’t be using Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously with that little RAM.

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[Todd Kopriva]

If I were in your position, I would make sure that I had turned logging on in the render settings. Then I would look at the log to see what layer the render is failing on. That might give you a clue about whether it’s—e.g., a layer with a bunch of particles—that’s the problem.

I know that you said that you prerendered a lot, but it might be worth seeing if there’s anything else that you can prerender. Just a thought.

BTW, the disk cache isn’t relevant. It’s just used for previews when you hit the spacebar.

Also, you’re right that OpenGL rendering is not a good idea for final renders. The results aren’t identical to what the software renderer does.

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[Todd Kopriva]

from “Change time display units”:

* To cycle through Timecode Base, Frames, and Feet + Frames, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the current-time display. The current-time display is in the upper-left corner of the Timeline panel and at the bottom of the Layer, Composition, and Footage panels.

* To change time display units, choose File > Project Settings, and choose from the options in the Display Style section.

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[Todd Kopriva]

See this section for information about text animation. Then, if you have specific questions about things that you want to achieve with text animation, we can probably answer those questions.

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Unless I’m mistaken, the education version can’t be upgraded. I might be mistaken, since the details of licenses are not my area. Be sure to check the details yourself.

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[Todd Kopriva]

This error message might indicate that the time of a marker is negative.

If this error happens again, we’d appreciate it if you could send the full error message, OS version, After Effects version, and footage content to aebugs [at] adobe [dot] com.

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Just so that you’re clear on what it means that some effects work in certain color depths:

The effects that don’t work in 32-bpc can still work on a layer in a 32-bpc project. The effects just don’t preserve the precision and over-range values that it is possible to have in a 32-bpc project. If you were already working in 8-bpc and only switched to 32-bpc to fix certain problems, then this limitation might not be an issue for you. For more information about color depths, see this page: “Color depth and high dynamic range color”

If you do want to preserve as much of the over-range information in a 32-bpc HDR (high-dynamic-range) image as possible while using a low-dynamic-range effect, you can use the HDR Compander effect.

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[Todd Kopriva]

In After Effects, just drag the 4:3 footage into a composition that has the dimensions that you want and use the Fit To Comp Height command to scale the layer to match the vertical dimension of the 16:9 composition. This will leave “bars” on the left and right side.

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