Why wont after effects render my whole movie ?

I got a simple comp in after effects. Its just some text and a picture noe videos. But i do got some effects, on the text and the picture im using :
Twitch in the twitch effect manuel , i am using "Bad disortion"
And im using the wiggler, in the mid of the clip.
On the text i am also using twitch. I suppose is the same , which effect it is on the text. Cause it just a effect for a really short time.
So the whole project movie its about 48 sec long. But when i render it to mov , it just renders 3 second. So i can only watch 3 seconds of my mov.
Computer specs :
Macbook pro Retina 15.
Processor : 2,3 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory : 8GB 1600Mhz DDR3
Graphics : Nvidia GeForce GT650M 1024mb
Software : OS X 10.8.3

most likely problem is that you have not properly setup your Render Settings. That's where you set the length of the render. The default is to render the length of the work area. Your comp's work area is probably not set to cover the entire composition.
You cannot just open AE and start using it. You must learn how the program works. Please go through the getting started materials you'll find here.

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Gregory Seattle wrote:
I think the problem is that hitting the space bar and hitting '0' (ram preview) both draw that green bar, and both seem to use it if it is already there. I guess the real difference is how that green bar gets generated. It does seem to get generated faster when I ram preview as opposed to hitting the space bar. Using both cores I have I guess (early 2009 24" iMac).
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Gregory Seattle wrote:
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Raj Nagar wrote:
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Anonymous UUID: 13B651EC-1735-9660-46E4-0E98E6F692B0
Mon Feb 23 16:22:48 2015
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8001cdcc1d): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8001ca5580, type 13=general protection, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x000000030efdf000, CR3: 0x00000001109a105e, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
RAX: 0xffefff800c147df0, RBX: 0xffffff8014c40da8, RCX: 0xffffff8011f51b18, RDX: 0xffffff80022d0b30
RSP: 0xffffff81e2bd3c90, RBP: 0xffffff81e2bd3cb0, RSI: 0x00000000ffffffff, RDI: 0xffffff8014c40da8
R8: 0x0000000000000001, R9: 0x00000000cccccccd, R10: 0xffffff80022d1600, R11: 0x000000000000019d
R12: 0xffffff800c093d60, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0x000000000000003d, R15: 0xffffff8014c40da8
RFL: 0x0000000000010287, RIP: 0xffffff8001ca5580, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x000000030efdf000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x2
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81e2bcddf0 : 0xffffff8001c23139
0xffffff81e2bcde70 : 0xffffff8001cdcc1d
0xffffff81e2bce040 : 0xffffff8001cf4486
0xffffff81e2bce060 : 0xffffff8001ca5580
0xffffff81e2bd3cb0 : 0xffffff8001c90768
0xffffff81e2bd3d60 : 0xffffff8001c960b3
0xffffff81e2bd3d90 : 0xffffff8001c8f81d
0xffffff81e2bd3dc0 : 0xffffff8001c8ea6c
0xffffff81e2bd3e00 : 0xffffff8001c7ea0c
0xffffff81e2bd3f10 : 0xffffff8001c82a4f
0xffffff81e2bd3f40 : 0xffffff8001c1d307
0xffffff81e2bd3f70 : 0xffffff8001cca13d
0xffffff81e2bd3fb0 : 0xffffff8001cf4ca6
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: After Effects
Mac OS version:
13F34
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Wed Dec 17 19:05:52 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.115.10~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 45486BF2-BDDE-34CB-8C71-606FF3FE181B
Kernel slide: 0x0000000001a00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8001c00000
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System uptime in nanoseconds: 47262543360456
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Remove the "Blackmagic" software and see whether there's an improvment.
Any third-party software that doesn't install by drag-and-drop into the Applications folder, and uninstall by drag-and-drop to the Trash, is a system modification.
Whenever you remove system modifications, they must be removed completely, and the only way to do that is to use the uninstallation tool, if any, provided by the developers, or to follow their instructions. If the software has been incompletely removed, you may have to re-download or even reinstall it in order to finish the job.
I never install system modifications myself, and except as stated in this comment, I don't know how to uninstall them. You'll have to do your own research to find that information.
Here are some general guidelines to get you started. Suppose you want to remove something called “BrickMyMac” (a hypothetical example.) First, consult the product's Help menu, if there is one, for instructions. Finding none there, look on the developer's website, say www.brickmymac.com. (That may not be the actual name of the site; if necessary, search the Web for the product name.) If you don’t find anything on the website or in your search, contact the developer. While you're waiting for a response, download BrickMyMac.dmg and open it. There may be an application in there such as “Uninstall BrickMyMac.” If not, open “BrickMyMac.pkg” and look for an Uninstall button. The uninstaller might also be accessed by clicking the Customize button, if there is one.
Back up all data before making any changes.
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But when I run the job, I get nothing in my output folder. (Input and output locs happen to be on an Xsan volume.)
I think Qmaster is not saving the command. When I get it all set the way I want, I click OK in the generic render setup window and it is displayed as a new row in the batch's command list. However, Working Directory is blank. And when I open the command again, the generic render setup now says Default Template and my aerender arguments are gone. So when I run it, I think it's calling aerender with no arguments---which suceeds without error, but without doing anything useful either.
Is anyone else seeing this? Where are these template definitions stored? I don't see them in Qmaster.app or /Library/Application support.
xserve g5 clusters Mac OS X (10.4.5) Qmaster 2.0.1, After Effects 6.5, Xsan 1.1

It does default back to the default template when you go back into the Generic Render, but when you select your template your settings are set. Does your template look like this:
[EXECUTABLE] -project [INPUT] -comp “Comp 1” -RStemplate "Multi-Machine Settings" -OMtemplate "Multi-Machine Sequence" -s [START FRAME] -e [END FRAME] -output [ITEM]/test[####].psd
Where, INPUT is project dir, "Comp 1" is specific to the name of the comp you want to render, and ITEM is the output dir. -RStemplate "Multi-Machine Settings" and -OMtemplate "Multi-Machine Sequence" are manditory.

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