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alexanderw4546215
Inspiring
September 14, 2017
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Project Will Not Export

  • September 14, 2017
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Hi,

I had a time-critical project, specifically a lyric video, I had been trying to export for the past week. Animated text is generated in AE, while the supporting footage and final export is on Premiere Pro.

After Effects takes absolutely forever to export this project, and for the third time in a row it crashed itself mid-export - 15 hours in and with four left to go.

Here's my original post in the Premiere Pro thread. My export settings I had been attempting are included as screenshots. I started using Media Encoder until I learned that it typically takes even longer to export and with the same results. Any input is greatly appreciated.

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I ended up exporting the three-minute project into three exports spanning a minute each. It took far less of a toll on my CPU.

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alexanderw4546215AuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 17, 2017

I ended up exporting the three-minute project into three exports spanning a minute each. It took far less of a toll on my CPU.

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    September 14, 2017

    Neither of your posts contains any useful info, specifically regarding what's actualyl going on in your comp(s), so it's no wonder you did not receive any helpful answers. The mechanics work both ways - useful details are more likely to yield an answer that resolves the issue. You have to make an effort and tell us much more, including exact system info, footage and effects used in teh comp, possibly critical settings, crash info. the long rendering times could indicate that you are using a very processing-heavy effect like a temporal filter (Timewarp et al), Raytrace 3D, complicated particle simulations and so on and the crash could simply mean that you run out of memory eitehr because you run out of resources or use a critical memory hungry effect liek Keylight, Rotobrush and a few others. We simply can't know and a few screenshots of the output settings are inadequate.

    Mylenium

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    alexanderw4546215Author
    Inspiring
    September 14, 2017

    My apologies:

    AE Version: CC 2017 (latest update)

    OS: Windows 10 Home

    Processor: Intel i7-7700HQ, 2.80 GHz

    RAM: 16 GB

    Graphics Chip: Intel HD Graphics 630

    The project itself is about 3 minutes long, and uses a Camera. Each word has three layers, two of which using a glow effect to look like neon signs. The camera pans across all of them for the video's entirety; all the words are screenshotted below. Quality is at 1080p. Hope this helps more.

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    September 14, 2017

    Well, it looks like my suspicion was right. most likely your comp renderer is set to Raytrace 3D, so a quick excursion to the comp settings panel's Advanced section might make your jaw drop to the flaw in awe. Also the motion blur looks rather distinct, so while there you might want to check settings for the number of samples and shutter phase. That would even apply if you were to stick with Raytrace 3D, but then of course also the detailed settings for this renderer under the options button would be relevant. should you already use the Standard 3D renderer, the culprit might be the glow effects, so consider pre-composing your camera move sans glow and apply the glow only in the parent comp. this might help a lot, it may just require tweaking and keyframing parameters to retain the look.

    Mylenium

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