After Effects CS3 Crashes Before Rendering is Complete

Hello,
I have a little dilemma with rendering. I have a 10 minute clip with effects added to it such as Topaz (Enlarge), Primatte Keyer Pro 4.0, Keylight (1.2), and a Spill suppressor. When I go to render in QuickTime, or Windows Media I get about 30 frames into the render and AF CS3 crashes. Ive tried PNG Sequence rendering but it only puts out about 30 or so frames and doesnt render any more. What can I do to get a complete render? I have 4 Gigs of ram on my computer, but After Effects only shows 2 Gigs. Can someone aid me with some suggestions?
Thanks,
Ed

@ Robert, glad that you got it to work! For most i/o efficiency, ideally, you'd have AE (and your OS) running on one drive, your source material on a different drive, and your renders going to a third (different) drive.
@ Ed, Windows XP can only assign a 2GB per-process unless the /3GB switch is enabled (do so at your own risk--may cause system instability)
Multiprocessing features in AE will allow you to launch background processes of AE to use the extra available RAM, but this is more of an advantage in OS' that allow the motherboard to have more than 4GB installed (as the recommended allotment of RAM per instance is 2GB). You have to leave some RAM for your OS to operate, as well as any other apps you have running. As far as the clip rendering with all effects disabled, there might be one effect that is causing the crash. Try enabling them one at a time to see if you can find which one is responsible. Also, wmv footage can be heavily compressed. Try transcoding to a losslessly compressed codec, and using that instead (i.e. Quicktime Animation @ Best/Full quality).

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