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Help!!!!!- Render quits and makes Sheep Noise

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patrick velez

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Mar 12, 2003, 8:31:21 PM3/12/03
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Help! I am trying to render a composition and the render fails at different points. The machine makes a Sheep "baaaa" noise then fails.

I have an identical system and it renders fine on it with no problems.

System details. 533 Dual Proc,AE 5.0, OS 9.1, QT 5.0.2, 800MB/1.2GB Ram allocated to AE, UltraIce 3.5, Composition has Film Damage in it. It renders without the ice FX.

I've reinstalled everything. And I do mean everything, clean system install, Quicktime, display drivers, IceFX, you name it. I've swapped ice boards as well. I've tried moving the fx in up and down in the ordering. I'm out of ideas.

All thoughts from left field will be entertained.

Thanks.

Patrick

Andrew Yoole

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Mar 13, 2003, 3:03:06 AM3/13/03
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Hey Patrick, I'm a bit of an old hand with Ultra ICE boards, got a couple of my own holding a door open somewhere. Here's a few ideas:

ICE boards don't work in any OS after 9.1, but that should be fine according to your specs. Did you know that the ICE board also disables your second processor while it is active? There should be a plugin in the AFX plugins folder called MPdisable, or something like that, which turns off the second CPU. If that plugin isn't there, the ICE board will cause all sorts of trouble when it tries to do any work.

If you can render without the ICE FX active, turn 'em all off and then sequentially turn them on one by one, trying a render each time. Long winded, but it will prove whether one of the plugins themselves is corrupt.

If you have a copy of Final Effects Complete (software only version) you could try substituting them to see if the problem persists.

Finally, I had an ICE board become steadily more unreliable until it was no longer viable to use it. Random crashes, especially during renders. It was only a few months out of warranty and it was replaced for half new price (still a bit rough if you ask me). They are really not much faster than the raw CPU power of newer Macs, so replacing them is just not economically viable anymore.

Good luck!

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