Logically uninstalling After Effects is the way to go to try to solve the crashing problem -- if the crashing of rendered mov files out of Anime started after you installed After Effects.wyrm wrote:My ASPro version is 5.5. I'm going to try uninstalling After Effects. I'm not sure if AE setup modified any QT files, but I uninstalled and re-installed QT several times since then. I had to uninstall QT for now as it was also causing my browser (Opera 9.23) to crash when a webpage tried to load QT content.
Any news on the uninstall? Did it fix the problem?
Software can do weird things to other software and drivers, especially cpu/hard drive hungry video software. I installed VideoWave on my Vista computer a month ago and I lost my DVD drive because of certain keys the VideoWave software installed in the Windows registry. I had to go into the registry and remove the two keys. Needless to say I won't be using VideoWave anymore.
BTW, I use Vista with Anime Pro (5.5) and I also render Quicktime files. [knock on wood] I haven't had any problems rendering mov files -- yet. I have Quicktime 7.2 installed.
I did notice on my XP system and Vista system that playing mov files in Quicktime resulted in jerky video quality. I did some research and found out that I needed to tweak some preferences in Quicktime to stop the herky jerky video playback.
I doubt editing preferences in Quicktime will solve the crashing problem, but hey you never know with software. Here is what I changed:
In Quicktime go to EDIT menu
QUICKTIME PREFERENCES
ADVANCED TAB
VIDEO
click the DIRECTX button
check the first two boxes (Enable DirectDraw Acceleration - Enable DirectDraw on Secondary Monitors)
uncheck the last box (Enable Direct3D Video acceleration)
I also use Opera 9.23 and found Quicktime doesn't like to work inside the browser. I set up "Media Player Classic" as my mov file player inside Opera.
To answer someone else who mentioned Apple's constant bugging to upgrade Quicktime and Itunes, I tried to upgrade iTunes and Quicktime a couple weeks ago, thinking it would solve the "iTunes is not properly installed. If you wish to import or burn cds, you need to reinstall iTunes" error message -- but no luck. I couldn't even install the latest version of either program on Vista off of Apple's site, the install kept crashing.
(I know I can solve the iTunes problem by getting the correct driver and DLLS for 64 bit Vista, but I don't have the energy right now to fiddle with it)
So I will stick with Quicktime 7.2 and iTunes 7.4.3.1.