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Ethan_Tramel
Ethan_Tramel
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April 1, 2013
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Element 3D is crashing After Effects?

  • April 1, 2013
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Hello everybody!

I recently purchased Video Co-Pilot's plugin for Adobe After Effects, Element 3D, but much to my amiss, it does not work. The first time I tried to open the scene setup, it said, "Element 3D has encountered an unrecoverable error."

I closed After Effects, and opened it back in hopes of trying again. But this time, when I apply Element 3D to a solid, it tells me "After Effects has stopped working" and I am forced to close the program.


Nothing has changed yet, every time I try to add Element 3D to a solid it crashes After Effects. I updated my graphics driver, re-installed Element 3D, everything I can think of, but to no avail.

If anyone could offer some speculance as to what's happening, that would be amazing.

My system specs:

Acer Aspire 5349

2 GB RAM

250 GB HDD

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

DirectX 11

Intel HD Graphics

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    Correct answer Andrew Yoole

    You've told us little about your graphics card (GPU) other than it's brand.  This is almost certainly the problem.  Element 3D requires quite high-specced graphics cards as all the processing is done by the GPU.

    More information can be obtained from the Video Copilot support pages.

    4 replies

    Ethan_Tramel
    Ethan_TramelAuthor
    Participant
    April 1, 2013

    Thank you so much for responding!

    After Effects actually runs very well on my PC, considering I do have the minimum requirements. I am able to run Optical Flares, as well as Trapcode Particular perfectly.

    I'm fairly young, so I apologize, but how can I update my graphics card to meet Element 3D's requirements?

    Thank you all for you help.

    My Graphics specs. Not sure if this will help, but I thought I'd post anyway.

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    April 1, 2013

    As the others said, your system has barely enough juice to run AE itself, much less run a plug-in that is entirely dependent on OpenGL GPU features. This will never work if all you have is a measly intel onboard chipset...

    Mylenium

      Todd_Kopriva
      Todd_Kopriva
      Inspiring
      April 1, 2013

      > 2 GB RAM

      That is far below the minimum system requirements for After Effects.

      Also, as Andrew says, the GPU requirements of Element 3D are quite stringent.

      Andrew Yoole
      Andrew YooleCorrect answer
      Inspiring
      April 1, 2013

      You've told us little about your graphics card (GPU) other than it's brand.  This is almost certainly the problem.  Element 3D requires quite high-specced graphics cards as all the processing is done by the GPU.

      More information can be obtained from the Video Copilot support pages.

      K
      karanm49784127
      Participant
      January 26, 2017

      Hello sir . I have also the same problem . When i start adobe acter effect and click on element . Then they show that "Element failed to initialize OpenGl" and after that when i click on scene setup they show a debud error " Element has encounted an unrecoverable error" .Please reply the answer .

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