Ray Trace Render problem

Why do I get Ray Tracer failed to Launch part way through the render/ram preview? I have done this many times with no problem, the render or ram preview goes 2/3 of the way through and stops with the error. I just can't figure out what's going on. I have deleted layers where the render stops to see if that is the problem but to no avail. This is a project that is due Monday and I have been trying to figure this out for 2 days. Any idea of possible problems? The only thing is at the point where the error stops the render I have some PNG files, although I don't know if that is it, as I take them out and I still get the error.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sean

Thanks for reply,
System Info as follows: Intel i7-920 Processor
                                      Asus P6-T Deluxe MB
                                      24 GB Ram
                                     Nvidia GTX 470 Video card (driver version 301.42)
Hope that is what you need.
As far as the project, it is a HD 1920x1080 29.97 15 second ad. Not sue what else you want to know.
Thanks
Sean

Similar Messages

Ray trace error

Hello,
I am new to After Effects and have downloaded CC. To learn it I thought to use Video 2 Brain's Learn By Video series which come with project files and straight off I have encountered a problem in their step by step introduction tutorial. It seems to be some sort of ray trace/memory problem. I use a 2011 MacBook Pro and have downloaded the latest Cuda driver. Here is a screen shot of the first error:
Can anyone offer some advice please?
Thank you
Chris

First Question, is your MacBook pro a Retina display? They were introduced in 2012. If yours is really a 2011 then you do not have an Nvidia GPU and you should not have installed the Cuda driver. Remove it.
If your computer is a MacBook Pro Retina, does your comp require a Ray-traced comp? If not, do you get the same error if you set the composition to Classic? If the comp requires Ray-traced do you get the same error if you start a new comp and add a 3D layer? I don't have time to download the tutorial and try and figure out what is happening.

AE 2014 - ray trace 3D looks fine in edit, doesn't render depth

I am editing some 3D text and have my comp settings to use the ray trace engine. All looks good as I edit, but when I render the text is flat 2D. Attached are samples. What's going on?
This is what I see when editing in the comp window.
This is how it renders out. I've tried different formats all thru Media Encoder to no avail.
One more data point - if I use Save Frame As it renders correctly with the 3D depth.

I'm sorry that I missed that you were using AME CC 14. I would have suggested a better workflow. I may have also explored the differences between AME CC and AME CC 14. If you open the Preferences in AME 2014 you will discover that the Mercury Playback Engine in the Video Rendering section. There is no mention of this option in the help files.
The Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acdeleration (OpenCL) does not support Ray-Traced rendering so the default setting would give the expected results. The option to select a Cuda rendering option from the list gives the impression that CUDA accelerated effects would render. Software Only suggests that the GPU would no be used to accelerate rendering.
I've filed a bug on this. It's a bug if CUDA is in the list and it is not going to work. It's a bug if Software Only is in the list and software rendering worked in AME CC. It's also a bug, at least a bug in the documentation, if there is no warning given that Adobe Media Encoder will no longer support any Ray-traced rendering features. I would suggest you also file a bug on this.
In AME CC there was no such option and since the Cuda supported rendering of Ray-traced comps is only supported inside After Effects, software or CPU rendering of ray-traced comps was implemented in AME CC. Software rendering is so slow that no one I knew chose AME for rendering Ray Traced comps. The DI (digital intermediate) was used to take advantage of the GPU. To tell you the truth, 90% of my work does not benefit from MP rendering (also not supported in AME) or Ray-traced rendering. I run the AtomKraft rendering engine instead of RayTraced rendering in CC if I want to extrude text or do other quick 3D things inside AE. The AtomKraft rendering plug-in has not yet been updated to run in CC 14. I'm getting a bit off track here. What I wanted to say is that whenever I have a project that benefits directly from rendering directly inside After Effects I will render a DI. For all other work I use the AME. For my client proofs I use Vimeo Presets and upload directly to private vimeo pages for clients. For all Final renders I render an archival DI, usually with AME, then render my deliverables from AME using the DI.

Why do I lose my text layer in AE when gpu ray trace rendereing? Macbook pro with retina and latest

why do I lose my text layer in AE when gpu ray trace rendereing? Macbook Pro with Retina and latest AE update.
Any new text layers disapear also as soon as the 3d box is checked. Solid layers do likewise. The text is available in fast draft mode but is not present in a final render.
Adussting the number of "rays" makes no difference.
No one else seems to be having this problem with ther macbook pro with retina ( on internet).
What silly mistake am I making???????????
If I start the project in CPU ray trace all is fine. If after the problem develops in GPU I change back to CPU I DONT get them back!!!!!
I just reset the AE preferences - no help.

Go through this thread :
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4749742
You might get your answer.

Ray-Trace not working on a 3D object

I created a model in Google Sketchup, mapping photo textures to some surfaces to create certain textures. When I imported it into Photoshop (in DAE format), Photoshop shows the mapped photo textures no problem, but when I go to ray-trace the model, it starts and then stops right away without ray-tracing. I've rendered lots of 3D models from Sketchup before and never had this issue, although, I haven't tried importing a model that already had photo textures mapped before, which is why I made mention of that.
I'm using Photoshop CS5 Extended. (Not 5.5)
Does anyone know why it would be doing this? Are there settings I need to change, or just a glitch with the particular model file?
Here's the model:
The dashboard (made up of a group of floating flat surfaces made to look like holographic controls) is all photo-textures. This is a screenshot taken directly from Photoshop, so you can see they're appearing fine in Interactive quality.

I do that dmennenoh, on contentLoaderInfo COMPLETE EVENT i smooth the bitmap in the same way, it even says trace(bitmap.smoothing) true.
I kind've nailed down the problem. It comes from the good old AS3 3D API. You know how when an object has 3d propertis applied to it it creates a matrix3D for it. Well on a picture like this one, that has small 1pixel patterns on it, when the matrix3D != null the image looks like hell even with smoothing = true.
I returned the image's rotationY to 0 and still look fuzzy. Than i also made matrix3D = null. And now the image look fine. So the problem is from the matrix3D or the 3D API itself. There's not much of a solution to this problem.
The image is also scaled down from a big image. You know that if you scale down an image that has patterns on it without smoothing applied to it, it look much like my image. Thus when it's a 3D object the smoothing property isn't taken into account. So every time you use an image with patterns and rotate it or move it on Z it will look much like my image.
I found a solution though. If the image is almost or the size of the desired dimension it will not look fuzzy. My image is a 1680x1050 reduced down to 610x380. And it looks fuzzy even with smoothing=true if it's a 3d object. After I resized my image to 610x380 in Irfanview it looks cool.
Hope I didn't bored you to death with my long explanation.
Cheers.

After effects error ray- trace 3d initial shader compile failed

I have an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Proccesor
16 GB in RAM
WIndows 8 64 bits
NVIDIA QUADRO K4000 ( I have this problem since I've installed this card)
after effects error ray- trace 3d initial shader compile failed

Have you added the card by editing supported cards text file as Quadro K4000 was not one of the supported cards for After Effects CS6.
Try updating the drivers to the latest . Install CUDA driver and check :
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads

Ray tracer failed to launch error is costing me time and money

Add me to the legion of people angry about this bug. Doing a search for it here and everywhere else basically leads me to the conclusion that Adobe knows about this problem and does nothing about it to fix it. I'm working on a project for a client with a deadline that's coming in a few days, and I have to constantly close AE and open it again, sometimes even reboot, to get it to work for a few minutes, and then it crashes again. So something that I could have been close to finish by now, I'm still not half way through because of this horrible bug that Adobe doesn't fix. Of course some people can't complain because they're running it on an unsupported card, but I'm running it on a GTX570 with 1.2 GB of RAM, so there's no reason why it shouldn't work. The machine also has an i7 3930k CPU with 32 GB of very fast RAM, and it's a fresh installation of Windows 8.1 Pro from less than a week ago, with all the latest drivers.
The project is very simple, a solid layer acting as a floor with a grid generator, a layer of text, and about 8 pictures sitting a few pixels above the floor. Nothing overly complicated, and it still crashes all the time. And this is not even a 1080p project, it's 720p.
And to add insult to injury, After Effects does not respect a custom layout when there was a comp viewer in the secondary monitor, so each time I restart AE I have to open a new comp viewer, drag it to the second monitor and resize it. Did nobody at Adobe think that people would be using two comp windows open at the same time, one in each monitor?
Adobe should focus less on adding new flashy features and instead making their software reliable, and not force people to buy CC. They should fix CS6.

I am having the same issue, though today I tried something that helped a lot. I am working on a mac pro with a flashed Quadro FX 580 and a slower Quadro 4000 card, and two displays. I've always plugged one display into each of the cards and lately frequently gotten the "Ray Tracer failed to launch" error. Today I plugged both displays into the less-powerful graphics card, leaving the 580 untaxed by running a monitor and so presumably entirely free for Ray Tracing. And so far today I haven't gotten the error we both know too well. You mention being on a PC and don't mention having two cards, so this may not help you. But if you still have the card you swapped out for your 570 and can pop it in your rig it might be worth a try.

Can ray trace 3d and classic mode export out final video with both modes together?

I know during preview mode in the canvas you could only do one mode at a time, but is there any way to export the final video to have both modes? I feel like this whole new ray trace mode not being able to support masks, track mattes, and blending modes makes it utterly useless.....

Yes, you can. Create a ray-traced 3D comp and a Classic comp. You can nest these comps into a new comp and then render it out. Here, I've got an extruded circle and a masked video nested into a Classic comp.

After Effects error: Ray-trace 3D ( 5070 :: 12 )

I'm getting the following errors:
After Effects Arror: Ray-traced 3D: Initial shader compile failed.
(50 70 :: 12)
Ray Traced 3d: Out of paged mapped memory for ray tracer. Your project may exceed GPU limits. Try closing other applications. Try updating the CUDA driver.
( 5070 :: 2)
- What operating system are you using?
Windows 8.1 64bit Pro
Clean install yesterday
- Did you upgrade your operating system from a previous version? If so, which one?
No upgrade. New system build.
- What is the model of your CPU?
Intel i7 5820k - 6core 3.3
- What is the model of your GPU?
EVGA - GTX 970 FTW - ACX2.0
- What is the version number of your graphics driver? If you have an Nvidia card, what is the version of your CUDA driver?
version 344.75
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/344.75/344.75-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-not es.pdf
My cards show up in "Preferences > previews > GPU information". Ray-tracing is set to use unsupported cards.

Forgot to mention, it's 2 GPUs in my machine. They are not in SLI.

Render problems

Hi,
I have serious render problems with Premiere CC. I't wont render at all. Crashes down every time with a window saying occurred serious problem...
The file that i've been working on is heavy with AE direct links and above adjustment track.
Im working station is Mac Pro Mac OSX 9.2.
So I assume having this machine Premiere will run smooth.
But on contrary I cant touch my files because it will crash down.
Can anybody have any suggestions that are not exporting all my AE files as movie clips and reedit the whole video again.
Thanks!

I am on Windows, but have a few saved Mac discussions that may help (or, may not... but free to read)
Mac and Root User http://forums.adobe.com/thread/879931
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/940869?tstart=0
Mac & nVidia Driver http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1075592
-and http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html
Mac Retina Bug http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1159632
Troubleshooting guide for Mac freeze
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/troubleshoot-system-errors-freezes-mac.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2011/02/troubleshooting-quicktime-errors-with-after-ef fects.html
External speakers stop playback http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1370072?tstart=0
OSX Crash http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/ame-premiere-crash-launch-export.html

Adobe AE, GTX 780 Ti CUDA ray trace support?

Adobe AE, GTX 780 Ti CUDA ray trace support? When will this card be on the white supported list?
Thanks

Thank you, I have found this working for me.
preference for bypassing whitelist for GPU acceleration of ray-traced 3D renderer
In After Effects CS6 (11.0) and CC (12.0), the GPU Information dialog box has a Ray-tracing menu from which the user can choose GPU or CPU. If the installed hardware is not on the list of tested and supported GPUs, the GPU menu item is disabled (grayed out) and below the menu is this text: “GPU not available – incompatible device or display driver”.
In After Effects CC (12.1), we have added a checkbox: “Enable untested, unsupported GPU for CUDA acceleration of ray-traced 3D renderer.”
Enabling this checkbox will do a couple of things:
After Effects will use the GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer with any GPU that meets minimum requirements (which include 1GB of VRAM and CUDA 5.0).
The text “GPU not available – incompatible device or display driver” will change to “Unsupported GPU enabled for CUDA acceleration” if the GPU meets the minimum requirements but is not on the whitelist. If the GPU doesn’t meet the minimum requirements, the text remains as the original.
In the CUDA section at the bottom of the GPU Information dialog box, “(unsupported)” is added to the Devices entry if the installed hardware isn’t on the whitelist but is enabled.
When the user enables this preference, a dialog box appears that tells the user that using an untested and unsupported GPU is something that they do at their own risk and that technical support is only provided for supported configurations.

Has CS6 fixed the PPro with AE dynamic links slow to render problems?

I've got PPro with AE dynamic links slow to render problems similar to those discussed in this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/904652?start=0&tstart=0
As I understand it (and I could well be wrong), if I render a PPro project that has AE projects dynamically linked in (anything from simple lower thirds to color grading), during rendering the AE bits run as a service, which limits the AE bits to a single CPU and effectively stops simultaneous rendering of multiple frames. This is why I can get very high render times (essentially no parallel processing), and why messing with the number of CPUs allowed for simultaneous frame rendering, or the amount of RAM said CPUs can access, has little to no effect on total render time.
Supposedly as some point AE was going to be changed such that it used Media Encoder to do it's rendering (same as PPro does), thus speeding up rendering for any PPro project that has AE parts dynamically linked in.
Has this been done in CS6? If not, any idea when that's scheduled to happen?

Jim Simon wrote:
(I do wish Adobe staff would keep this distinction mind when creating their videos. When I saw one about the new background rendering in PP, I was interested, only to learn that he was actually talking about background exporting, a feature PP has had since AME was introduced in CS4.)
The distinction is not so distinct, and this is an industry issue, not really Adobe. After Effects has a render queue, which is used for exporting, but you can also export. Lightwave has this, even Avid. The terms do have their own distinct meanings, but of course context is usually required. So usually "rendering previews" or "rendering final output" serve as context-sensitive uses of the term.
Terminology abuse is widespread, even people with video cameras now call themselves "filmmakers" and people who produce films never shown nor intended for a cinema call themselves "cinematographers." ENG video producers are called "photogs" and news photographers are called "photojournalists."
Transcoding, encoding, rendering, exporting....mish-mashed unfortunately, but thankfully most people can figure out what's meant.
Back to the OP - After Effects can be used with Adobe Media Encoder, it's just not the default. You can import any composition into AME from AE and render your encoded export.
As for background rendering....I remember when Pinnacle Liquid was the first to the table with that feature back in 2004 or 2005. It seemed awesome, except that you needed a ton of spare hard drive space and lots of processing to keep the background rendering going...effecitvely your processor was in use 100% of the time. When you weren't scrubbing or playing back, Liquid was rendering previews. Of course, you could use those previews during export but you rarely would have wanted to do so, since it was better quality to reference the original data when compositing the layers and effects to output to a web file, for instance. Then you had to keep cleaning up the preview cache.
I rarely render previews at all, and when I do it's just a small segment at a time, just to get a full look at the final composite. Mercury Playback is usually more than capable of playing back most of my edits the rest of the time.

Ray-tracer

ray tracer seems less stable now on ther retina MBP with 650m on 12.1

Those cards are not on the list of cards that After Effects will use for GPU acceleration of the ray-traced 3D renderer:
http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/tech-specs.html
Did you make a change to a file to try to force these cards to be used? If so, that's an unsupported configuration.

Problem with the Ray Tracer in Photoshop CS5

I am very new to 3D modeling but I have been fallowing online tutorials to properly set-up and use the repousse tool with ray tracing in CS5. Last night I did a very intensive Font design with great success. Just about an hour ago I got an Adobe update for CS4 which I installed. Afterwards, the ray tracing in the repousse tool would not work. It would start and I would see the render grid pop up and then it would suddenly close. I closed photoshop cs5 and reopened it and still the same problem. I then went into the performance settings and they were all set at the same settings as the previous night. I have no idea why this feature would suddenly stop working but the problem started after the adobe CS4 update. If someone can help me fix this I would be greatly appreciated.

O.K tried reinstalling the whole suite, which was really annoying because the installer is such a load of...., well let's say it's not good. After deinstalling the reinstall failed and I had to run the cleanup tool (which produced some error's, how is that even possible) and do some other stuff suggested by the support. (It's really annoying that such an expensive programm has such a bad installer - CS3/4/5, always the same problem. At least the Adobe support is really good, so that helps a bit)
After all I managed to reinstall the whole thing but this didn't help. Interesting enough it seem this has to do something with the file. If I create a simple text 3D-object it renders fine, so I guess I will start all over again and try if I get this working. This time I will save copies of every step, maybe I can figure out if this happens again.
Another strange detail: the 3D-tools have an error, too on this file. If I move the object around in space they really jump on the slightest movement of the mouse.

Adobe Media Encoder can´t render out AE Ray-Trace Composition

Hey,
AME can´t render out my composition (or sequence if i include the comp in a PP sequence) which includes some 3D stuff.
I am able to render it out in AE in a few minutes, preview it easily in AE and even in PP but i´m not able to render it out in AME or PP.
AME says it would take like 10+ Hours to render it and doesn´t come to an end.
I tried multiple encoding settings but nothing worked.
Also i checked, that cuda rendering is enabled in all my Adobe programs, but nothing helped...
AE File .aep :
Dropbox - Twitch Infovideo.aep
AME .epr Preset for encoding :
Dropbox - Media Encoder Error Test.epr
Thanks for helping,
Johannes

It raises another question: what settings do I need to encode the comp in 720p resolution without taking up lots of space?
Well, it depends on whether you need a production master (something for broadcast, for example, or to use as a source for other encoding tasks) or if you want a version for distribution. If it's the former, there's nothing wrong with "lots of space" - A Quicktime file with PNG or Animation codec is a good idea, but it will take a lot of space. If it's the latter, H264 is perfect but there's no built-in preset to take 720 material to the web.
You could do this:
* Pick the generic H264 template. You'll see that it will give an error if you attempt to render, because the default setting uses an H264 profile/level which doesn't let you use HD resolutions.
* In the H264 video options, set the "Profile" menu to "Main" and "Level" to 4.0. That will keep it compatible to Quicktime and Flash player, while allowing larger frame sizes and higher bit rates.
* Set Target Bitrate to 5-8 Mbps and Maximum Bitrate to 9-10 Mbps if you're targetting web delivery. That's a bit over what Apple uses for 720p content on the Apple TV, for example.
The H264 original preset will instruct you in the comment field to stretch to 640x480 in Output Module. There's no need, since you are using a profile/level combination which allows higher frame sizes.

Ray Trace Render problem

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for