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Liran Tabib
Liran Tabib
Inspiring
May 12, 2025

aerender crash/error on mac (v25.2)

  • May 12, 2025
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aerender no longer renders compoistions from projects with Cinema4D 3d render engine or tiff sequences.

It doesn't matter if the composition does not uses this render engine or sequence, if the project contains them none will render (macOs).

    5 replies

    Liran Tabib
    Liran TabibAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 15, 2025

    Hi @JohnColombo17100380  and @Kevin-Monahan 

    After Effects 25.3 update for mac still does not resolve this issue. Now, no error is logged, aerender stops the process with no aparent reason or log.

    in the picture below you can see a completed compsition and below it the same comp with the Ciname 4D engine is selected. @

    The process starts and quits

    I'll be glad to be contacted to help and solve this issue. This affects all aernder users who use C4D render engine on mac (studios mainly)

    Thanks in advance

     

    Liran Tabib
    Liran TabibAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 12, 2025

    Hi @JohnColombo17100380 

    Thank you for checking this out. The error that logged on both cases is:

    aerender Error: After Effects error: layer does not have a source.

    After that aerender just quits

    I am using aerender though Render Brain plugin from the creative cloud (I am the developer) that worked perfect until this version or the one before it. We downgraded to v25.0.1 to continue with our rendering pipeline

    JohnColombo17100380
    Community Manager
    JohnColombo17100380Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 12, 2025

    Hi @Liran Tabib,
    Thank you for reporting this issue. What error (if any) is reported or logged when you attempt to render a failing project from aerender? When you open these same project in After Effects, are there any errors shown?

    A screen recording showing how you are calling aerender and the resulting behavior would be helpful as we investigate this potential breakage.

     

    Thank you for any further info you can provide,

    - John, After Effects Engineering Team 

    Liran Tabib
    Liran TabibAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 12, 2025

    Thank you kevin, I hope this will help resolve this soon

    Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
    Community Manager
    Kevin J. Monahan Jr.Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 12, 2025

    Hi Liran,

    Thanks for the message. I appreciate the information. I am Kevin from Adobe Support, a moderator here. I have asked the developers to respond to this question. Sorry for the delay. I hope they can help you solved this issue shortly.

     

    Thanks,
    Kevin

     

    Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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