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After Effects
« on: July 08, 2008, 01:01:05 AM »
I figured I'd post this problem here, even though no one on the Adobe forums offered any bit of help ><

After Effects CS3 crashes whenever I try to drag any file into it. Images, movies, audio, etc... multiple formats, and everything basically. It just crashes each time. and not just dragging either. Opening, importing, etc. Kinda sucks. I downloaded the trial version a bit ago, and I get this. I can, on the other hand, open pre-made project files with images/movies/audio in them already and play and edit them fine, but that's about it. Really sucky.

Any first hand experience?
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2008, 08:38:02 AM »
Is it a codec issue?  I never personally used After Effects.
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2008, 08:41:54 AM »
Not sure why it would be a codec issue when images crash it.
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2008, 09:12:20 AM »
Tried deleting the preferences file?  And are you using Vista or XP?

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C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserAccount\Application Data\Adobe\After Effects\8.0 you'll see your "Adobe After Effects 8.0 Prefs.txt" file.
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2008, 09:14:30 AM »
I suggest you start drinking heavily.
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2008, 09:17:12 AM »
Not sure if you have seen this already, but I read that sometimes if you disable the OpenGL support, that fixes alot of crash issues.
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2008, 09:24:55 AM »
Heh yep, I've seen both of those things. I went through All of the topics on the adobe AE forums when searching for "import crash" as well as the same for many other community AE forums. I am surprised that with this problem being so common that there is no info on how to fix it.

For the record, Deleting the prefs file does nothing to help, as well as turning off OpenGL in the options. Another source says to remove the opengl plugin file from the AE folder, which I did do, and still no go.
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2008, 09:29:10 AM »
I know you can probably get it if you wanted but have you tried the full version? If you can't...get it....I can find it for you.
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2008, 09:47:25 AM »
Heh no need. I acquired the full version just a bit ago, and it's working fine now... thankgod
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2008, 10:20:18 AM »
Glad it worked out!
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2008, 10:40:38 AM »
It figures that they make you get the full version just to get it to work right.  They are starting to sound like Microsoft.
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2008, 11:09:27 AM »
Only Microsoft still doesn't get it right even after they have your money....*cough* Xbox360*cough*
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2008, 04:57:08 PM »
You know... I've been looking at a lot of the amateur after effects videos on youtube, and they look like Crap. It sorta discouraged me at first. Was thinking, "wow is it really that hard to do the cool stuff?" The answer: NO! Most people just suck at it!

After reading up on some basic program UI control tutorials for about 20 or so mins, I decided to take AE for a spin and see what I come up with on my own. The very incomplete video below is a result of 3 hours of use from a complete NOOB to After Effects (me):



Pffft... I know it's nothing special at all and is almost pointless, but even that short 15 seconds is better than the majority of the amateur stuff out there.
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2008, 10:56:22 PM »
This might give you a little something to work with.

http://www.colbertnation.com/?p=1593
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Re: After Effects
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2008, 10:59:15 PM »
SWEET. I knew about the one awhile ago where the winner made an ipod commercial, but I thought it was only a one-time thing. Awesome.
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