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AE's driving me crazy right now.
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Kaat
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Apr '04
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5/7 4:26pm
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AE's driving me crazy right now.
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Hey there. I am really pissed right now.
I am trying to render a 10 minutes-long video in AE 7.0 for over an hour now, and it just doesn't work. First, I tried to render the whole thing with the windows media codec, which didn't work. Then I thought, ok, I'll render it uncompressed first and take care of the compression later, but no. After rendering like 1.5 of the 10 minutes, AE cancelled the rendering process because "an unknown error has occured".
So far, I've managed to render the first 2 minutes of my video in separating it into 3 files; the first one was 1 minute long and worked. Trying to render the next minute didn't work, so I had to render two clips with 30 seconds each. Now, when I am trying to render the next... 5 minutes, 1 minute or 30 seconds, it doesn't work.
I am running Vista and AE hasn't been too stable ever since, I guess. In fact, I am actually used to experiencing multiple crashes with AE when doing a larger video file (and I am not kidding. I am used to save my project file every few seconds and every time before doing a RAM preview). But I haven't had such a hard time yet rendering a single freaking video.
So, have you guys got an idea what's making After Effects struggling with rendering my video? I might add that the video consists of a mix of uncompressed avi-videos, wmv-videos (which worked fine in the past for me) and mp3s.
Maybe this is a rather obvious problem that could be resolved easily; if that's the case, I apologize. But it's 1:30 am at my place, I have only slept two hours last night and trying to get this thing done in time has turned me pretty much into a bag of nerves. So I am probably not thinking straight-forward right now.
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Rhys
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5/7 4:32pm
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Rendering to an image sequence first would probably make life easier in the re-rendering and detecting where the problems are department.
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ObiJuan2080
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5/7 5:09pm
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Also rendering MP3s in AE isn't a good idea. You should change the MP3s to WAVs then render it.
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5/7 5:33pm
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It won't help to state it, but Adobe made no efforts to support Vista with AE 7 and CS2. All CS3 apps support Vista 32-bit only.
I've got Vista 32-bit business and CS3 and haven't had any significant instability. In fact, I had an improvement in CS3 when I switched to Vista from XP.
My suggestion, if you're serious about running CS2 apps, is to reinstall XP and do a dual boot. Or just abandon Vista altogether.
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Kaat
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5/7 6:06pm
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Believe me that I considered switching back to XP when I found out how much of my hardware does not work with Vista... however, since I got Vista with the new PC and the harddrive does not come with a driver that supports XP, installing it turned out to be pretty difficult and in the end, I found that it was not worth the effort.
Having said that, I don't think it's a problem caused by Vista, actually. It "feels" like some serious codec mess or something like that. I don't really know. Maybe it's worth mentioning that when AE has aborted a render process, trying to set the name for a new file to be rendered makes the program crash.
Oh, and I have almost finished 4 minutes now! Things are lighting up.
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5/7 11:05pm
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Rhys posted:
Rendering to an image sequence first would probably make life easier in the re-rendering and detecting where the problems are department.
And possibly the compression as well, since you could import the image sequence into a new project and compress cleanly with little hassle. Good luck mate! 
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Lord_Charisma
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5/8 1:31am
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You should probably be rendering to image sequences anyway, until your final compression - I recently had to render out an AE project that did the colour timing for our student film, and did so as an AVI.... so I was kicking myself when it crashed after 4 hours. I wouldn't have wasted all that time if I'd used an image sequence.
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bobaandy123
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5/8 4:44am
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Kaat posted:
Believe me that I considered switching back to XP when I found out how much of my hardware does not work with Vista... however, since I got Vista with the new PC and the harddrive does not come with a driver that supports XP, installing it turned out to be pretty difficult and in the end, I found that it was not worth the effort.
You don't need any drivers to dual boot. If you have two hard drives, just install XP on another hard drive and select what boot device you want when you start up. Otherwise, you just need to make a partition on the main drive and install XP to that. Theres details all over the onlineterweb.
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Kaat
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5/8 9:30am
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bobaandy123 posted:
You don't need any drivers to dual boot. If you have two hard drives, just install XP on another hard drive and select what boot device you want when you start up. Otherwise, you just need to make a partition on the main drive and install XP to that. Theres details all over the onlineterweb.
I am not that much of a rookie that I haven't tried this.
Speaking of rookieism, I finished the video. Took me four hours of intense and straining work to render the video into six separate files.
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Oreckel
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5/14 7:58am
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Have you tried trashing your preference file?
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madhorizons
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5/14 8:39am
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I'm having similar issues in Premiere. I'm exporting out a 1hr45min vid and it keeps dying at 1 particular frame...i'm thinking there may be a junk frame, so i'm now trying it without that segment to see what happens.
If yours fails again, you may want to try to do it incrementally.
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