Rendering error while writing to file in After effects CS 5

[Morriswald]

Hi

I have a problem with After Effects CS 5 on Windows 7 64 bit.

When I try to render out quicktime formats in After Effects I get an error message:

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After Effects error: Rendering error while writing to file "E:/ . Unable to open file. (-1610153459)

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Rendering  to other drives, like C: or D: works fine but as soon as I try to render to the E partiton

I get this error.... It must have something to do with permissions on that partition.

I dont want to reinstall windows,- any help would be wonderful.

[rayraymalibu]

I am having this problem on Windows 7 64bit too. I was rendering to a sata drive that had a folder on it mapped to a network drive. I reformatted the drive and it rendered to it just fine. After that, I remapped the network drive back to the same folder location on the drive and immediately the render error came back. This time, I tried to render by picking the mapped network drive and it rendered just fine. I can't however render to the actual drive root. I'm going to move the folder that I map as a network drive to a different physical drive so my render drive will not have the network mapping associated with it. Really weird but at least I got it figured out on my machine. Good luck!

[pfm_nj · Accepted solution]

I was having a similar problem where After Effects, Premiere, and Sony Vegas could not create QT files on certain drives. After a lot of forum searching I finally found a solution thanks to a tip from Rob Maybury on CreativeCow.net

It looks like QT will only write to drives with a unique name. My volumes were set up as follows (looking at Windows File Explorer)

•     Local Disk (C:)
•     New Volume (F:)
•     New Volume (G:)
•     New Volume (H:)

I could create files in C: and F: but not in G: and H:. After changing the Volume names so they all were unique:

•     Local Disk (C:)
•     SSD Volume (F:)
•     Main Volume (G:)
•     New Volume (H:)

I could now create files on any drive.

To change the Volume name, right click on the drive and select 'rename' or bring up the properties window and rename it there.

[Exitmult]

I just had this problem.  pfm_nj's solution worked like a charm.  Thanks for posting!!!!

[Anurag.Dreamer]

The Best and probably the ONLY solution.

Thanks a million ton!!!!

[parth26110]

Yes, it really worked

[soheil1987]

After many years I found the solution and it so funny that quicktime care about volume drive.
I think it's because of different way to address files in mac and win.
Anyway thank you so much "pfm_nj's" . It work very well.

[charleeb18446598]

i had the same issue and this helped me so much thanl you!!!

[insanyrivas]

For some reason the render would fail if I export audio as AAC but works with Uncompressed. Using After Effects CC (2015.3).

[ke57650003]

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Thanks a lot...:)