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EVAmazYn
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August 19, 2009
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Adobe After Effects CS4 Crashes During Startup

  • August 19, 2009
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Hey I have a major problem i think.. after I installed AAE CS4 I picked the trial to see how it was b4 i bought it. Once everything was installed and complete I restarted my computer but when I went to open the program it pulled the grey aae startup box. It had 4% complete and said Initializing Media Core then it just stops and minutes later crashes with not progress. It continually does it with no improvement. Anybody that can help me?

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    Anonymous
    May 10, 2014

    After a couple of days trying to sort out this problem I found that by uninstalling my ToonBoom software the problem disappeared.

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    lviett
    Participant
    November 22, 2010

    Just remove quicktime 7 you can use it that all! i try anh success.

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    torspeedv8
    Participant
    November 20, 2009

    I was googling "After Effects CS 4 crashes on start up " and finally I end up here. Well, after reading and following some replies, I figured out the way on this problem. You could try this, It works for me, I used to stuck at starting up screen while it's loading Media Core ( about 2 % ).

    If you're using Vista ( maybe 7 ) ,

          1. Go go Control Panel -> System-> Advance System settings

         2. Click Advanced tab, Performance -> Setting

         3. Click Data Execution Prevention  -> Turn on DEP for all programs except those I select - > Here you click Browse and choose where your AE CS4 location is, and click Apply -> OK .

    If you're using Mac , I'm sorry because I still didn't install AE CS 4 on my leopard.  Gotta give it a shot

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    validng
    Participant
    March 25, 2010

    had same problem on win 7 x64

    did the update but didn't work...

    but i found out that it works if you run as administrator

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    Anonymous
    April 26, 2011

    This solution worked for me too. Just hold shift when clicking the After Effects icon, and select "Run as Administrator".

    Worked perfectly.

    Mariano Alesandro

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    Supasupra
    Participant
    August 27, 2009

    Yup, you got it.

    I'm now searching a way to remove all MBL components because they're not in the AE application folders and not even in the adobe library...

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    Anonymous
    August 27, 2009

    Contact Red Giant software for instructions (if needed) on how to uninstall Magic Bullet, and also to learn about their plans for CS4 compatibility.

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    Supasupra
    Participant
    August 27, 2009

    Same trouble.

    I'm working on a Macpro station, all of the adobe applications are up to date but its still crashing at startup.

    It seems that the app is crashing when initializing "media core"...

    Maybe it will help.

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    Anonymous
    August 27, 2009

    Is it possible that you have Magic Bullet installed? MB installs a MediaCore component that is not compatible with CS4.

    If it's not this, I'd remove any third party codecs you may have on your system and add them back one at a time.

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    August 19, 2009

    Please tell us a little more about your system. What processor? Graphics card? I agree with first trying to run all updates. In order to launch the Adobe Updater, go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater6 and launch the update.exe.

    Mylenium

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    Anonymous
    August 19, 2009

    The After Effects 9.02 update addresses a number of causes for crashes on launch. Have you tried updating?

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