So, for the most part this whole thing has been a breeze. Not wanting to toot my own horn here but I’m generally pretty okay at all this sort of malarky. So, when suddenly After Effects starts being a diva and crashing on me for no apparent reason it took me by suprise that I couldn’t seem to figure it out. As of now it’s still doing it and I’m trying to figure it out. Nothing seems to work, I can’t find anything on the internet that will help me by way of forums and what have you.
So, after one almighty crash and a big blue matrix-esque screen full of numbers and exclamation marks I had to system restore my whole computer. That seems to have solved the problem with that… but after effects is still throwing a hissy fit every time I try to render anything/import footage/edit/look at it funny.
I’m delving into this problem head first. I may not come out alive.
Updates to follow.
13:30 PM
Right.. okay so I’ve done a bit of an experiment. I’ve tried rendering the rest of the animation, the bits without the real footage in. That seems to go fine… which leads me to believe that it’s actually the videos that I’m trying to use that AE doesn’t like… Going to try convert them from WMV and see what happens…
14:46 PM
Well it seemed to be working but three quarters of the way through rendering it just died again… Hmmm… Tests continue.
15:06 PM
JURRASSIC PARK IS BACK ONLINE! It worked we have render! So, what should have taken me a day and a half to do… in fact took me 4 days to do. Thank goodness thats over!
