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Chris iaia
Chris iaia
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AE 9.0.2 (CS4) crashes consistently part way during render

Feb 9, 2010 5:05 PM

When I render, here's what happens:

 

Everything starts fine but as the process goes, it renders each frame more and more slowly (estimated time goes from 4 hours rendering time to 12 hours).  Eventually the whole process grinds to a stop and the classic rainbow twirly starts up, crashing AE.  I have for force quit and start from the point it crashed.

 

I have tried moving the source media to different drives, have tried exporting to different formats (DV, Photo JPEG, etc) and using different compression (uncompressed, none, DV, etc) but always end with the same result.  I have blown the PRAM, rebuilt AE preferences, tested the drives and same thing.

 

I have AE 9.0.2, using a macpro quad core 2.66 w 4GB RAM.

 

Ideas?

 

Thanks,

Chris

772 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: Splendes, Jan 22, 2012 1:02 AM
 
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  • Adolfo Rozenfeld
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    1. Adolfo Rozenfeld,
    Feb 9, 2010 6:21 PM   in reply to Chris iaia
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    Do you have "Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously" turned on in the Memory and multiprocessing preferences?

     
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    2. Chris iaia,
    Feb 9, 2010 10:25 PM   in reply to Adolfo Rozenfeld
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    Thanks but I don't - I think I tried that at one point troubleshooting and it seem to have worsened the situation, crashing faster.

     
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  • Mylenium
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    3. Mylenium,
    Feb 10, 2010 4:39 AM   in reply to Chris iaia
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    What source footages? The issue may not at all have anything to do with rendering the output, but rather problems with the input...

     

    Mylenium

     
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    4. harrygreb,
    Feb 10, 2010 10:31 AM   in reply to Chris iaia
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    does it crash if you render something simple like a text only 5 second animation?

     
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    5. Chris iaia,
    Feb 10, 2010 3:00 PM   in reply to Mylenium
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    source footage is dv ntsc quicktime movies (seven of them) and jpeg still images.  The movies are put through a few effects (blur, rendered into 3d) and transformed (tracked to represent movies projected onto scrims in a 3d space) but nothing on a complexity or scale comparable to projects of the past using many more layers of quicktimes on much less powerful machines.

     
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    6. Chris iaia,
    Feb 10, 2010 3:02 PM   in reply to harrygreb
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    Nope - it takes a while to crash - sometimes 5 minutes of rendering time, sometime 4 hours, though I have not tried rendering something on the same scale but using simpler source imagery/footage.  I will try that.  Thanks.

     

    Chris

     
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  • Splendes
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    7. Splendes,
    Jan 22, 2012 1:02 AM   in reply to Chris iaia
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    After upgrading to version 9.0.3.8 when rendering AE CS4 crashes.

     
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