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Morriswald
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September 4, 2010
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Rendering error while writing to file in After effects CS 5

  • September 4, 2010
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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 😧 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.

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Correct answer pfm_nj

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.

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