[Will Giuliani]

I’ve still got some tweaking to do with this- but I’m not going to lie… I’m really pumped about trapcode MIR!
I just need to try and ‘loosen’ it up a little I think. The original is on the left- MIR on the right

Will Giuliani
3d Modelling/ Animation
aniMedia Creative

[Will Giuliani]

Thanks John. I was actually thinking along those same lines (sort of)- I think I’m going to try it out with MIR- I’ve had it for a few months but haven’t had a chance to get into yet. This could be the excuse I need…

I appreciate your advice!

Will Giuliani
3d Modelling/ Animation
aniMedia Creative

[Will Giuliani]

For what it’s worth…

I was having this exact problem with After Effects CC at render time. Running the Console app on my mac (applications- utilities- console) I noticed a crash report. According to that crash report- something had caused the Adobe QT32 Server to crash. A google search showed that blackmagic drivers could be a culprit- I had some blackmagic software on my machine. I downloaded their utility from the Blackmagic website (under support) in order to properly uninstall all of their drivers from my mac, and now AE renders beautifully again!

Long story short- there is more than likely something on your machine causing this type of crash- if you go into your activity monitor (applications-utilities-activity monitor) and select “My Processes” from the drop down menu at the top of the window- look for any 3rd party programs in the list. In my case- the culprit was titled “Desktop video driver updater” or something like that. I didn’t recognize it at first- but Desktop Video was the name of the Blackmagic software that was on my machine.

Note- I had been running Aftereffects cs5.5 with the blackmagic software on my computer with no issues- it wasn’t until I upgraded to AfterEffects CC that I started having issues at render time.

Good luck!

Will