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After Effects error: crash occurred while invoking rendering plug-in "Advanced 3D"

Nov 2, 2010 8:20 AM

Process:         After Effects [356]
Path:            /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS5/Adobe After Effects CS5.app/Contents/MacOS/After Effects
Identifier:      com.adobe.AfterEffects
Version:         10.0.1 (10.0)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [122]

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F2090)

Processor: 2.93 Ghz Intel Core i7

Memory: 16GB 1333MHz DDR3

ATI Radeon HD 5750:

Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 5750

Type: GPU

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 1024 MB

Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

Device ID: 0x68a1

Revision ID: 0x0000

ROM Revision: 113-B9710C-238

EFI Driver Version: 01.00.417

Displays:

iMac:

Resolution: 2560 x 1440

Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Built-In: Yes

Connection Type: DisplayPort

...seems to crash around a when scrubbing timeline and when rendering.
I've tried turning off 'Use OpenGL Renderer' to no avail.
any helpwould be greatly appreciated any additional info I can supply to help resolve.
Best Wishes
Simon

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1. simon Deshon,

Nov 2, 2010 8:31 AM in reply to simon Deshon

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oh oh ...just tried another render error reads:

After Effects error: crash occurred while invoking rendering plug-in "AE_OpenGL"

curses!

and help please

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2. Todd_Kopriva,

Nov 2, 2010 9:03 AM in reply to simon Deshon

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Try removing the OpenGL plug-in entirely. See this page:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405948.html
Try the solutions on that page in order.

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3. simon Deshon,

Nov 2, 2010 9:16 AM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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Many thanks Todd ...will give it a shot

just a quickie if I remove OpenGL does that mean I'll be missing a trick in CS5?

s

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4. Todd_Kopriva,

Nov 2, 2010 9:26 AM in reply to simon Deshon

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> If I remove OpenGL does that mean I'll be missing a trick in CS5?

You won't miss it. Most experienced After Effects folks only use OpenGL for the OpenGL - Interactive Fast Preview mode. That's a useful little feature, but nothing huge.

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5. simon Deshon,

Nov 3, 2010 2:22 AM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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Many thanks for the steps to follow ...unfortunately the problem still
exists bigger badder then ever.

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6. simon Deshon,

Nov 3, 2010 3:17 AM in reply to simon Deshon

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just tried re-installing AFX to no avail

help

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7. simon Deshon,

Nov 3, 2010 3:27 AM in reply to simon Deshon

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...just crashed again with following message
After Effects error: crash occurred while invoking effect plug-in "Gaussian Blur"
help

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8. ANDREW_GOLDSMITH,

Nov 25, 2010 2:44 PM in reply to simon Deshon

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I am getting the same error but for but "format plug-in "PNG"", "rending plug-in "Advanced 3D", effect plug-in "Slider Control" and effect plug-in "Tint"".
It's only happening on one shot in my timeline, which is one of the more simple constructions. Also it will crash even if I place the playhead on the timeline over that shot, even at a 1/4 resolution

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9. ANDREW_GOLDSMITH,

Nov 25, 2010 2:45 PM in reply to ANDREW_GOLDSMITH

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Also, I already tried removing Open GL

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10. ANDREW_GOLDSMITH,

Nov 25, 2010 2:53 PM in reply to simon Deshon

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Well, I got desperate and tried this:
Keeping caps lock on I navigated my way to the composition, copied all the layers, dumped them in a new comp and had to re-link my expressions. I released Caps Lock and Wallah! I didn't dare double check the old comp and just removed it from the timeline. It now sits in a naughty folder in my project.
I don't understand why this worked, but it did. Maybe try it?

Cheers

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11. ANDREW_GOLDSMITH,

Nov 25, 2010 9:29 PM in reply to ANDREW_GOLDSMITH

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It turns out this didn't actually fix the problem. It only allowed me to preview the comp without crashing. Kevin Camp suggested here: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/955555 that one should try deleting the after effects preference folder.
This seems to have worked for me so far and I am now pre rendering the as a safety

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12. jackisgoingtoscream,

Mar 9, 2011 1:42 PM in reply to ANDREW_GOLDSMITH

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We've been having THE EXACT same thing happening here at a studio trying to render. Constant crashes invoking seemingly innocuous things like "Levels" and "Tint". But I have also have gotten the "Advanced 3D" crash as well as "Open GL". I (of course) had already disabled OpenGL and even removed the plugin just to be safe, but even AFTER doing this I somehow still got a crash invoking "Open GL".

The crashes are random and maddening. Sometimes it will render fine for 3 hours, sometimes it will crash repeatedly 4 times in a row. Ridiculous. BUG. FIX.

Running OSX 10.6.6 with version 10.0.1 with 13 gigs of ram on a 3 Ghz quad-core.

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13. ANDREW_GOLDSMITH,

Mar 10, 2011 1:15 PM in reply to jackisgoingtoscream

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It is very uncool.
By memory the only way I could ever work around it was by resetting/deleting the preferences -which is really annoying because then you have to readjust them all to your liking again and once you do that you'll probably have to reset/delete them again sometime soon when you try to render your project.
From what I remember you hold command + option + shift while opening AE (ctrl + alt + shift for pc) to do this but check the link I attached above otherwise.

Good luck

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14. jackisgoingtoscream,

Mar 10, 2011 7:15 PM in reply to ANDREW_GOLDSMITH

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At least we know we're not alone! Adobe, get the lead out, please.

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15. Macmur,

Apr 13, 2011 2:57 PM in reply to simon Deshon

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Hi,

I'm not a 100% sure this is the right answer but here is thoughts on why After Effects is crashing on you. Its crashing because of you not having a good "graphic card" on your computer. So if you don't what you need to do to stop it from crashing is In the Composition panel of after effects (the main panel) there a "lighting bolt" icon if you click on that icon to toggle it open you'll a menu & select this in the menu "Adaptive Resolution-OpenG1 Off" this will stop it from crashing it did for me. Hope this helps you or anybody else who may be having this problem....

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16. jtw0728,

Apr 16, 2012 9:30 AM in reply to simon Deshon

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I have had this error twice now in the past 2 weeks, both times it was a corrupt Illustrator file.. I had to import the project file and go through each file one by one til i found the corrupt file.. Then I just resaved the illustrator file, and the problem was gone..

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17. Dave LaRonde,

Apr 16, 2012 9:33 AM in reply to jtw0728

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That's just the Previewing Open GL selections. To turn Open GL off for rendering, go to AE Preferences.

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18. Adam.M.Nielson,

May 11, 2012 1:22 PM in reply to jtw0728

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I was getting the Advanced 3D error too. I just reloaded a .jpeg image along with a video I had in a precomp and it is finally rendering.

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