After Effects CS5 Spinning Beach ball

Hi Everyone
I'm currently working on 2 separate corporate films - Both require work done in Premiere with Dynamic Links to After Effects.
Both films have timelapse sequences shot from Canon 5Dii JPGs
1 has video footage shot from a Canon 5Dii (H.264 Mov files)
The other has footage shot from Panasonic AG-AF101 (XDCam Mov files)
However both films after several actions within the app cause After Effects to slip into a coma and display the spinning Beach ball. It's a bit hit and miss as to whether the Mac recovers - depending on the level of work I'll sometimes give it up to 5-7 mins grace to come round.
There's no rhyme or reason so as far as I can tell, as I can't determine a pattern.
I've tried Un-Checking the Render multiple frames Simulatneously as well as Un-Checking Enable OpenGL
I'm running a 2x 2.28GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro 3,1
Mac OS X 10.6.7
20gb RAM
300gb of available space on the App hardrive
NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT
Any thoughts, solutions would be gladly welcome
Rob

You could try this for a check...
Go to your system preferences and create a new admin account.
Then log in to that and open your project.
That will force AE, its preferences and all caches etc to be re-created.
If your problem still persists after that you might want to make sure that one of your RAMS (Memory Blocks)
isnt damaged.
I cant remember how to test such as I believe the apple hardware tests have gone by now.
Also, when trouble shooting such - try to disconnect any peripherals from the mac, if possible...
You might also want to make sure that your media caches etc are residing on a FAST drive
instead of the default ˜/Home/Application Support/Adobe/Common
Also try the following if none above works
1) save your project prior to rendering
2) Choose the EDIT menu - PURGE ALL
3) Go to preferences and look at the Media and Disk Cache section.
You WANNA put those on a FAST drive. Also you could try to delete the caches from within there and disabling the disk cache
PRIOR to rendering...
IHTH

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