After Effects render error when reaching certain length of export...

[SirTwixtor]

Good morning!

So this is a bit of an odd one! My After effects export stops and errors at exactly 1m23s (or frame 2064) on every project i work on.  For example, im just exporting out an animation thats 6 minutes long, when the export gets to 1m23 in the timeline, it errors and stops exporting.  If i then tell it to render from that point onwards, exactly 1m23s along again in the timeline, it crashes again!, and so on... Each time the file size is EXACTLY the same of the AVI its managed to export before crashing (see screenshot attached) and those files shown in the screenshot are all meant to be exporting from different points on the timeline onwards, so definitly shouldnt be the same size. 

The error that comes up after it gets to frame 2064 says:
After Effects Error: Redering error while writing to file "G:\Shared drives\xxxxxxxxxxxxx\." Disk Full. The file maybe damaged or corrupted. (-1610153463)

I then hit ok on that error and another one pops up saying Error Code: 9988 Please restart AE and try again.

 My drives are definitly not full however, no where near in fact. I am rendering to a google drive share on my local disk, however syncing is paused whilst doing this so it isnt trying to upload or sync whilst rendering. Could this be an issue?

I'm on a PC rendering out to a lossless AVI,  no codecs, standard settings within after effects, (not media encoder) and I'm using After effects 2022 (v22.1.1 build 74) and have 200GB spare hard drive space, and 64Gb Ram with 50GB alocated to AE. I am using Multi Frame Rendering. My disk cache is on a seperate drive to system and has 200GB alocated to it and isnt full. 

Any ideas? Many thanks!

[nishu_kush]

Hi SirTwixtor,

Thanks for writing in.

It doesn't look like an issue with After Effects. Can you try exporting to a different local location and see if that helps? Folders that have sync services often cause such issues.

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,

Nishu

[SirTwixtor]

Hi Nishu, ok, so just tried exporting to the desktop instead of the google drive, and yes, it exported out fine, no crashes.  So that must be it then, thankyou! Simply pausing Google sync services doesnt help, it needs to export to somewhere else first and then copy over. 

It is odd that its at the exact same frame every time though? if im exporting out a project thats under 2064 frames (or 1m23s), then it works fine. 

Also have just tried exporting using Media Encoder straight to H264, into the same google drive folder, and that works fine no issues? So the problem is just exporting straight out of AE into a google sync folder.

Strange. But at least theres a solution, many thanks!

[M-F-X]

Do NOT upgrade to this release.  It is very unstable.

[M-F-X]

Adobe.... What the literal F is wrong with you for releasing this turd of a version?

[m_sob]

I had the same problem, restarting and removing cache didn't help, turns out it was a certain animation - I had an animation where an object moved while getting bigger and after I deleted it the whole thing rendered without a problem. So if you keep getting this 9988 error and nothing helps - try removing animations at the point it crashes.

[vanessak43639752]

Hey Folks,

I just ran into this issue with a brand new project where I only imported 1 video file and tried to make the proxy. I found that after saving the project it had no problem rendering the proxy. Try saving your current work status and then rendering as a start to trouble shooting.

[buffyw4802877]

For those running into this issue on AE 2024, try turning 'multi-frame render' off in Preferences > Memory & Performance. 

Sometimes one step at a time is best, though i look forward to the day i can click render and its done the same second.

[Warren Heaton]

I know this is an old thread, but I'm suprizsd no one recommended checking how the storage media is formatted - especially when rendering Lossless AVI.  If a drive is formatted as FAT32, for example, it's easy to exceed the 4GB file size limit.  For Lossless AVI, Windows users need to be rendering to storage media formatted as ExFAT or NTFS.

[innpact · Accepted solution]

I was having the same issue in Adobe Render Queue. I then tried Media Encoder and had the same problem. When I looked at the error it said something about the Codec not being able to support the frame size. I was using a composition that was 540 x350. I changed my comp to 1280p and now works in both again. 

[boomboxgroup]

It worked for me.
I tried many other things, this is the only solution that worked.
Thanks !

[AnthonySneed.film]

It is highly likely the composition's resolution is not an EVEN number. For example: My comp was 3275x3275. It kept giving me these same errors.

I changed the comp dimensions to 3276x3276 and it worked perfectly. 

This problem happens in Resolve as well. Always make sure to use EVEN not odd numbers in your resolutions.

[yagorldani]

the fact that this worked... 😭 thank youu