Sa Color Finesse in After Effects Cs6 is locked how to unlock?

I have a cloud subscription and After Effects Cs 6 will not unlock SA Color Finesse 3. How do I unlock?

The Adobe AE installer always installs Color Finesse for you with no extra work on your part. It is then automatically serialized the first time you apply Color Finesse to a layer.
If you've tried using an installer from our website (which does require a serial number), then as Myleium says, the easiest fix is to uninstall AE and then reinstall it.
Bob Currier
Synthetic Aperture

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Offline/Missing Image Sequences in After Effects CS6 with Color Bars

I am working on a stop motion animation in After Effects CS6. Each clip has been imported as an image sequence from stills on my hard drive. When I open up After Effects, all image sequences now have color bars over them, as if they are offline. Trying to reload them does nothing. I cannot 'link media' because it isn't just one file; it's an image sequence so there are many of them.
I first noticed this when the color bars appeared in my dynamically linked comps inside of Premiere Pro. Everything played smoothly the first time I opened the project in Premiere CS6, after originating in CS5.5. Then the second time I opened up Premiere, the color bars appeared on the linked comps. I hadn't yet opened up my AE project in CS6 yet, so when I did, AE converted the project and I resaved it.
Any help related to this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Mid-2009 Macbook Pro
Mac OS X Mountain Lion
8GB RAM
Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium CS6 w/Creative Cloud

Thanks everyone, I think I'm beginning to solve this.
Rick, thanks for your advice. I tried this and it worked. The reason I didn't do this before is that, because it is stop motion, I couldn't remember how many frames I had imported for each sequence. For instance, if I shot 54 images and only imported 52 into the sequence, I wouldn't remember which 52 images to import...this might still be causing a problem, but I don't know yet. I think in most cases I imported all the images in a folder, so the image sequences should be fine.
I am having another problem, however. Even though the issue seems to be fixed in AE, it doesn't seem to be fixed in Premiere...each image sequence is dynamically linked from AE, but each dynamically linked comp is still being show with color bars as they did in AE...I think that maybe my Premiere project is still linking to the old CS5.5 AE project, and not the new one opened and saved in CS6...

Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6

Scrren shot of how my animation looks in After Effects CS6 (on the left), vs. how it looks when rendered to a .mov file. (on the right). See how washed-out the colors look?
I am on a Mac, latest software versions and OSX.7.4. The source material is in RGB mode, Color Setting is Adobe RGB 1998, which is my wRGB working space. Color settings are synchronized across the entire suite. In the AE project settings, I see that color management is turned on and we are indeed in the Adobe RGB 1998 color space.
Possibly export settings, because I do not know thing one about those!
Thanks,
--Carol Gunn
Gunn Graphics
Austin, TX

Read this FAQ: What is the best format for rendering and exporting from After Effects?
Then I would suggest trying a different codec. When you send your comp to the Render Queue it says lossless next ot the Output Module Settings, that means that it's using After Effect's defualt lossless settings, which uses a codec called Animation. Animation is an ancient codec that delivers huge files and it isn't used so much in production anymore. If you click on lossless the Output Module Settings screen will come up where you can change the format of your render and you can change the codec by hitting the Format Options button.
I've seen that washed out issue before with the Animation codec and just did some tests. I also played with the Color Management settings using the Animation codec by going to the upper right hand tab in the Output Module Settings menu. That seemed to have no effect on the final look of the render. A quicktime render with the Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) codec seems to match the AE screenshot almost identically.
Unfortunately, you can't get the ProRes codecs without having either Final Cut Pro installed or Apple Motion. I think it's possible to buy them from the Apple website. However, there are other lossless codecs you can try such as Uncompressed YUV 10bit or 8bit, but I just did a test and I got a much darker render than the ProRes renders and the screenshot. Judge for yourself what's best...
If you want ot know more, here's an FAQ on the basics of rendering and exporting in AE...
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79f4 a.html#WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79f1a

HELP! After Effects CS6 "Background Color" Rendering Problem!

Of all my years of using Adobe After Effects, I have never encountered this problem before. First of all, this is what it looks like when I'm normally editing in my composition.
Click the image to view in a higher resolution.
When I add this composition to the render que, with all my settings ready, I hit render.
But while it's rendering, I just get a red screen.
In case you're wondering, these are my basic rendering settings.
These are my output module settings.
And these are my composition settings.
After Effects CS6: Version 11.0.0.378
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
RAM: 6.00 GB
Quad Core Processor: AMD A6-3600 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 2.10 GHz
Quicktime Installed: Yes

What Mylenium said. The little blue thingie is the give away.

Adobe Premiere and After Effects CS6 installer failed to initialize on Mac Book Air

Hi everybody,
I'm trying to install Adobe Premiere and After Effects CS6 for at least a month now.
I have downloaded the .dmg file at the Adobe Website and it starts to initializing the installer, then a error show up:
"The installer could not initialize. Download the Adobe Support Advisor."
There is no Adobe Support Advisor when I clicked on the link. "The Adobe Support Advisor has been discontinued" (http://www.adobe.com/support/loganalyzer/)
I've tried this many times, but every time being a failure.
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Hi Thomas,
Kindly try the below mentioned link.
Error: "Installer failed to initialize" | Windows
Thanks,
Atul Saini

After Effects CS6/CC isn't running on windows8.

Hello,
I have upgraded my Laptop (ASUS K55VM-SX046R) from windows 7 to windows 8 pro.
and I have tried installing Adobe After Effects CS6 as well as CC both one by one. Both gets installed successfully and even opens without any error. But then i got this kind of screen(same as i have attached), In composition area, it just shows white blank portion, there should be video instead. But I'm not getting the video and just this white screen. Same happened with Photoshop CC (64bit), in drwing canvas it was showing just a balnk space (not white color, but of grey or any default color), and when i installed 32bit version Photoshop CC, it worked perfectly. Anyways, Photoshop issue is just to ask you that, is it because of 64Bit versions or anything else?
Please help me out with After Effcets CS6/CC.
Thanking You :-)

Same old: You have messed up your CoDecs by installing some CoDec pack or whatever or there is an issue with hardware accelerated decoding due to a misconfigured graphics driver. Update the driver, uninstall the CoDec pack, reinstall the Adobe programs.
Mylenium

Importing an Illustrator CS6 in After Effects CS6

When I import the file into After Effects CS6 I only see a black scree and you can move the squares. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Joe.

The top pic. is a Ai file.
Well here is what I do in Ai I have a white background create a few squares and a text, all in different colors. I am not using black. I same the file and then import it in After Effects and choose to keep layers. And I all I get is a black square with non of the graphics that I created.
Thanks,
Joe

Preview in After Effects CS6

Hi After Effects community, I have a problem here, in my After Effects CS6, in the preview, has these colored blocks, I can't delete, is a problem of After Effects CS6? please help me, Thanks.

Thank very much!! master ! I can continue now, thank you!!

Color correction in after effects

I was wondering how you put a color correction pack into after effects once you download it. all help is appreciated.

> Color Finesse may not be in the AE tryout version.
There is no difference between the trial version and the non-trial version. See this page for details:
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2011/04/improved-trial-version-for-after-effects-cs5-5 .html
See this page for information about color grading with After Effects:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WSB48B246A-E34D-4d3f-A0A4-B932FD3F12E6a. html#WSB1713828-3801-4025-B9E6-E87E487AD828a
(Ignore the part on that page about Color Finesse not being in the trial version. That's wrong.)

After Effects CS6 running painfully slow

I am working on a composition in Adobe After Effects CS6, and it's running painfully slow. I've tried to mess with some of the settings in the preferences, and lowering the quality of the preview. But I still feel like I'm running terribly slow considering the speed of my computer. Here's what I'm running:
Mac Pro Desktop
Model Name:          Mac Pro
Model Identifier:          MacPro5,1
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors:          2
Total Number Of Cores:          8
L2 Cache (per core):          256 KB
L3 Cache (per processor):          12 MB
Memory:          24 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed:          5.86 GT/s
Video Card
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
Slot:          Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width:          x16
VRAM (Total):          1536 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x05fe
Revision ID:          0x00a1
ROM Revision:          3426
Displays:
SyncMaster:
Resolution:          1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number:          H9LPA06272
Main Display:          Yes
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Rotation:          Supported
SyncMaster:
Resolution:          1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number:          H9LPA06265
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Rotation:          Supported
Hard Drive
WDC WD1001FALS-41Y6A0:
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Model:          WDC WD1001FALS-41Y6A0
Revision:          05.03D06
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Native Command Queuing:          Yes
Queue Depth:          32
Removable Media:          No
Detachable Drive:          No
BSD Name:          disk0
Rotational Rate:          7200
Medium Type:          Rotational
Bay Name:          Bay 1
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Verified
Volumes:
Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk0s1
MAC OS X:
Capacity:          677.53 GB (677,531,090,944 bytes)
Available:          421.16 GB (421,160,968,192 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk0s2
Mount Point:          /
Untitled:
Capacity:          322.33 GB (322,328,068,096 bytes)
Available:          183.98 GB (183,976,169,472 bytes)
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Mount Point:          /Volumes/Untitled
The composition I'm working with does have 1 camera, and about 45 small 3D comps built into it. No lights. And all of the footage and data is on the Mac OSX hard drive. Which has tons of space available as you can see. I've played around with the settings in After Effects. But nothing seems to significantly speed things up. Any ideas??

Hey PJ,
I've been using CS6 since it was released, and while it's got a bunch of great new features, it's basically made Multi Processing unusable unless we're talking about the simplest of comps.   I'm working on my second short using AE as the total animation package, and render times for complicated 3D comps (NOT using ray tracing) have tripled.   MP used to take forever to spool up, but was fast once it got rolling. Now, disabling MP gives me 3 or 4 times faster rendering, which is still MUCH slower than MP is CS5.5. SOmething has deflineitly changed for the worse, as i'm using the same machine with the same settings and virtually the same comps.
I acutally just yesterday had two animators quit on my because they couldn't meet their deadlines.
I think After Effects is the hydra of programs. They kill one feature and two more fill its place. Unfortuanly we traded functional Multi-processing for falloff lighting and etc... The puppet tool was it 3 version of after effects before it was stable. I'm hoping we don't have to wait til CS7 for MP to sort itself out.
I really don't understand the "deal with it" aspect of the posters here. Surely a functional program that delivers on it's promises is the goal of this forum. We're not asking it to make us a sandwich.

After Effects CS6 crashes, causing my iMac to restart

After Effects CS6 crashes, causing my iMac to restart.
I want to buy AE CS6, so I downloaded the 30-day trial version.
I followed all the instructions to install it properly and followed several tutorials to optimize it for my computer.
This is what I use:
iMac 27''
CPU:
3,2 GHz Intel Core i3
memory:
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
archive:
1 TB
graphics card:
ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB
operating system:
OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
we are filming with:
Canon 5D Mark II
File format:
QuickTime (.mov)
Based on everything I've read, my iMac has all the system prerequisites to use AE, and all the other programs that I use for video and audio recording and editing ( Final Cut X, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Photoshop CS6, etc. ), work perfectly, run smoothly and never crash.
After Effects CS6 crashes constantly, causing the computer to restart. It seems to run smoothly, then I start a render and it crashes; or I start a color correction with Curves and it crashes. Each and every time the computer restarts by itself.
I've tried rendering smaller portions of video at a time, sometimes it finishes the rendering, sometimes not.
Hope somebody can help me! Thanks.
Hilary

Your post is not much use to anyone. You are not telling us anything about your operating system, storage locations, output settings and whatever else may be relevant. The magic sauce is all in the details, not a generic assumption that this would be some bug or known issue.
Mylenium

Alexa color issues in After Effects

Hello, I am working with DPX files in After Effects CS6 (Mountain Lion) that are in the Alexa Log C color space with no intermediate color grading or treatment straight from Technicolor. My problem is this: I am trying to color correct the DPX files to match Avid DNxHD color graded reference quicktimes that were genereted from the same DPX files using a LUT and a CDL. In the past I have never NOT been able to match color perfectly using LEVELS by adjusting the color in each color channel individually while comparing it to the clip I am matching it to. Not only do I find it impossible to match the DPXs made from Alexa raw footage to a color corrected version of this same clip that is in quicktime DNxHD format but I am finding the red channel in the DPX files behave in ways that are unlike anything I have ever worked with before. I have done extensive research in regards to this issue to no avail. Technicolor has supplied a LUT for NUKE and SHAKE that along with a CDL, is supposed to recreate the color grade of the quicktimes. I have used Colorista free to input the CDL values as well as LUT buddy to incorporate the LUT that I was given with no luck. Even compensation with levels does not work because the red channel will NOT cooperate. I also used the LUT utility in After Effects with the same results. I even contacted the person in charge of such things at Technicolor and they admitted that they gave up on After Effects in regards to providing a solution to color matching Alexa footage that has been converted to Avid DNxHD and baked with a LUT and CDL. I can't be the first person to have run into this issue and there MUST be a solution out there that doesn't involve switching to Nuke. Anybody?

Hi Jonas,
Please forgive my latency in this response, things have been crazy. Thank you again for your help in this, here is the drop box link to the DPX file:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/44859261/test-dpx.dpx
I will also tell you what I do know, Technicolor has been taking the ArriRaw files from the Alexa and using the Color Front OSD to convert them to DPX files. I was told that the DPX files have a LogC conversion LUT baked into them that was supplied by ARRI. Along with these DPX files we receive quicktimes of the shots in Avid DNxHD format that have been converted to linar color space. I am uncertain as to the process (if they are produced by processing the DPX frames or if another process is used to generate them from the same ArriRaw files). I would love to know the answer to this myself. I also think that a CDL has been baked into the quicktime that is supplied by the director of photography. I am still collecting information while trying to get shots done as well.
With all that said, my issue is still a mystery to me. Upon any attempt to use (Levels) in After effects to get the DPX files to match the quicktimes that we were supplied by Technicolor, (like I have done thousands of times in the past with no problem until now and only with files generated from the Alexa) I cannot get the DPX to match, the color information in the DPX files acts as if it has been clipped, making it impossible to reach the range of colors in each of the color channels that are being displayed in the quicktime. Particularly in the red channel.
I have the LUT that Technicolor is supposedly using to generate these quicktimes that along with the CDL which I also have and am using Colorista free to introduce to the clip, is supposed to match the DPX to the quicktime but these do not work either nor does any supplemental adjustments.
Somehow, someone at Technicolor is able to go from an ArriRaw file to a quicktime with a specific colr grade that is unattainable by me using the DPX files that I assume these quicktimes were created from. Sice color is color, I should be able to do the exact same thing anyone else does to a clip no matter what UNLESS the DPX files I have have been compromised which I am told over and over again are not. This is where I hope you can shed some light on my delima. If you can take this DPX file and match it to the PNG I pasted into this thread than you are doing somethng I am not and I hope that is the case.
Thak you again Jonas!
Clyde

After Effects CS6 - Very slow workflow

Hi everyone, my first writing in adobe forums. I've contacted 3 adobe support agents, but I didn't get much help from them. Recently I switched from PC to Mac Pro, having Adobe Production Premium 5.5 for Windows and now upgraded to Adobe Production Premium 6.
First I tried a trial of After Effects CC and I was surprised how slow it is. Now I'm using AE CS6 full version and it's a bit better, but still pretty dang slow. (The video I made for adobe support explaining the problem is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jsZZpH0vYU )
To try to cut long story short. In the video adove, I've created couple of text layers and couple of shape layers. Made them 3D. Added a camera too. When I move the camera, everything is refreshing extremly slow. It's like you're having 100 3D layers and very busy scene,
and actually it's few most simplest 3D layers. The agents from adobe support told me to switch to half rez, or draft mode etc. But the problem is, I do not want to work in half rey, draft mode or something similar, with my configuration it should work pretty normal. Never
had these kind of problems in AE CS5.5. I tried everything, updated the software, updated my Mac OS, disabled global cache, even disabled multiprocessing etc. Btw, rendering is okay.
Is this the way CS6 is made? Is it supposed to be slow? Because, literally I got an answer from the agent that AECS6 is designed like that, in other words, to be slow
I really have no idea anymore how to make this work. I would like to get back to my lovely 5.5, but I only have license for Windows. If you guys could help me, I would really appriciate that.
I use:
* Mac Pro
* 2 x 2,4 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
* 64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
* ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB
* 2TB HDD
* 2 x Apple LED Cinema Display 27"
* After Effects CS6 - 11.0.2.11
* Mac OS X 10.8.4
* I haven't had this problems ever before (using ae for quite some time)
* At the moment no 3rd party plugins installed
Thanks!
Mirza

You'll have to get used to creating Ram Previews and using AE's interface in the right way. You should really go through the getting started materials on the home page and take a look at the FAQ. AE is a layer based pixel calculating beast that will do a lot more to a movie at 60 frames per second than Photoshop will do on to a still image. After Effects is essentially Photoshop for movies with a lot more options.
If you want to smoothly drag through the timeline and playback multiple cuts with simple transitions and two or three layers then use Premiere Pro. If you need to use 20 layers and 60 effects to create a stunning composite or motion graphics effect then you're stuck with rendering at just about any price point.

After Effects CS6 error: RAM Preview needs 2 or more frames to playback - any ideas please?

Hi everyone,
I'm running After Effects CS6 (11.0.4.2) on a MacBook Pro 2.8Ghz with 16GB RAM (Mac OS 10.9.4)
As a test, I created a 3 and a half minute Sequence in Adobe Premiere CS6, and then imported this into After Effects CS6, and placed it on the AE timeline.
This footage involves a couple of 1920x1080p footage movies, some psds and a large number of JPGs exported from two videos arranged as a sequence in two layers in Premiere, one on top of the other. So all in all for a Premiere / After Effects file I'd say it's reasonably heavy.
I then did a RAM Preview with Multiprocessing switched off - the 3 and a half minute sequence loaded into RAM, taking about 1min 30seconds, and played back in realtime at 25fps. This worked fine with 3,4,5 and 6 GB RAM available to other applications in the Memory Preferences. All things considered I think this is quite good. I can make changes, reclick the RAM Preview icon and my changes load into RAM and it previews ok.
My only 'complaint' is how long the RAM Preview takes to load up the whole thing.
I've been reading up on Multiprocessing and decided to try this to see if I can speed up the time it takes my RAM Preview to load up.
So I looked at some recommendations from Adobe and read information on various forums including this one.
My settings in the Memory Preferences are currently
• 6GB reserved for other applications
• Reduce cache size when system is low on memory - unticked
• After Effects Multiprocessing - ticked
• Installed CPUs (processor cores) - 8
• CPUs reserved for other applications - 6
• RAM allocation per background CPU - 3GB
• Actual CPUs that will be used - 2
This combination takes about 25 seconds to load up my 3 and a half minute sequence which I thought was pretty amazing.
I then pressed the stop button and then the play button - so now just playing the sequence briefly.
And also added a new layer - into the timeline - just a simple shape.
Then I tried a RAM Preview again.
I found I could load up part of the sequence but not load the whole thing into RAM.
I kept trying to get a RAM Preview and got this message
"After Effects error: RAM Preview needs 2 or more frames to playback" which seems to prevent RAM Preview from working.
Eventually I quit and restarted After Effects and the problem went away temporarily and then came back when I tried again.
I tried various changes to the Memory Preferences - trying 3GB available for other applications. This gave 13GB of my 16GB RAM to After Effects.
This made it take slightly longer for the After Effects error to appear but it still appeared.
I tried ticking Reduce Cache size in the Memory Prefs - the After Effects error still appeared, so having read this is supposed to make the issue better I now leave it untucked, but as far as I can see ticked or untucked, it makes no difference, the problem remains.
I've since tried -
Making 2,3,4,5 and 6 CPUs available for other applications.
Changing the Background RAM allocation per background CPU to 0.75GB, 1GB, 1.5GB, 2GB and 3GB
Lots of combinations.
But in the end, I always get the "After Effects error: RAM Preview needs 2 or more frames to playback" error.
It might take less or more time for the message to show up, depending on the combination of settings, but in the end I always got the same message appearing.
And I notice that I can RAM Preview less and less of the timeline. i.e. it becomes more blue than it does green and will load in only a small section of the timeline as opposed to the whole thing.
Reading further, I tried Edit > Purge > Image Cache and Edit > Purge > All Memory but still get the error message.
I also tried ensuring there were no other applications running e.g. Safari or Chrome or Firefox. And certainly not Photoshop or Premiere etc.
Reading even further, I tried two Memory management applications - 'Memory Clean' and 'Purge.'
Neither has had any effect - the After Effects error still appears.
Then I went back into the Memory and Multiprocessing Preferences.
I unticked Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously. And now the RAM Preview loads the whole 3 and half minute sequence in entirety, taking about 1 and half minutes to do so. It's working as perfectly as if I'd just quit and re-opened the application.
Then I went back into the Memory and Multiprocessing Preferences.
I reticked Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously.
The chose Edit > Purge > All
And tried a RAM Preview again. It loaded up in 25 seconds, but then, as previously, the error message came.
I tried Edit > Purge All - no effect.
And I tried going into the Media and Disk Cache Preferences and clicked Empty Disk Cache - still the problem remains.
I understand from my reading that After Effects CS6 11.0.2 was intended to fix this issue but I'm on 11.0.4 and as far as I can tell, I still have it - assuming it's the same thing.
As far as I can see, not using Multiprocessing allows me to work without these errors but take a bit longer to load the RAM Preview.
However I'd like to be able to use Multiprocessing as it seems it can potentially speeds things up quite a lot. I realise I could just not use it and AE would work, but I'd rather be able to make use of a feature of the software if possible, especially if it will speed things up and make optimum use of the my computer's hardware.
I've downloaded a trial copy of After Effects CC 2014. I'm still testing it but as far as I can see the RAM Preview error appears in this version of AE as well, but can take bit longer to show up in my experience.
Thanks everyone - if anyone has any thoughts or advice I'd appreciate hearing your opinions.
Kind regards,
John

You need to have much more RAM reserved for other applications and more CPUs reserved for other applications. Your current settings are crippling your performance.
Read these:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2009/12/performance-tip-dont-starve-yo.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2010/03/performance-tip-dont-oversched.html
After you have adjusted your settings according to the recommendations on those pages, restart your computer and try again.

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under the view problem details it reads:
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Application Timestamp: 4f6d63ab
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Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ce7c92c
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Exception Offset: 000000000001022a
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Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: ea97
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Additional Information 3: dd88
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I have tried to "check online for a solution and close the program" but not results come of it.
Potential source of problem : I was uploading a Camera Raw sequence into AE when it decided to stop responding. Upon trying everything to revive the program I had to force quit. Since then the program has been acting funky on me.I was able to open AE successfully twice by right clicking the AE icon in my bar then selecting a specific project from the pop up menu.
But since then, this quick fix no longer works I have uninstalled the program once, then re-installed the program, upon which it worked for 2 days, then stopped working and here I am. My exact steps when trying to open the program are 1. turn the computer on 2. click on the AE icon in my taskbar 3.Error screen
Here are my system specs:
I have done all of the recent updates available
If there is anymore information I need to provide please let me know. There is no other third-party hardware or related items on this computer.
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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: AfterFX.exe
Application Version: 11.0.4.2
Application Timestamp: 52886341
Fault Module Name: ole32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ce7c92c
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000001022a
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: ea97
Additional Information 2: ea97fd9fc4586d82a9317d4715f3d725
Additional Information 3: dd88
Additional Information 4: dd88d2dea5f801ce78614a15e5184439

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