After Effects doesn't render!!!!

If I add my composition to the render queue and click render under the best settings, the RAM loads with 10 GB (I have 16) and the program hangs at the first frame....
Also it created an avi-clip (1sec. long) and there is nothing in it?!
Do you have any tipps or solutions?!
Thanks for helping!!!
Sorry for my english, but I'm german

http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2010/01/getting-started-with-after-eff.html
Right now, it seems that you think AE should work like many other multimedia applications. It doesn't. The link above is a good place to learn the After Effects basics. You can't do much in AE if you don't know the basics.

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