Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5393353 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 03:58:50 +0100 Received: by mail-wi0-f172.google.com with SMTP id r20so213815wiv.5 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:59:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=onW4dbpk3Lzzx4vdBBk3xqxH0ZtBfPDfJBoeTxakOUo=; b=dMXM3uS3PqgA+y6hGiGz3IP+kk1/dOy3PkkbMacIY3U8gsgjVKkvC7hxlTX/nBFdv+ n97x2dn/CqecwyROKjL9UWtI8qKZHLP5sfHrrkAkDyoXQfJwBChEjkkx8sRfISAaqlsW 2ncARNRPDRiu2CcWCt8fYYjBkLRIBi4zM+ymCSoWMj3Gb/9qjKf4KtshfTV4mIopjM5Z JSyr7csN75yLRZP8gQTitFyfUeKpp9aeoUy5HguupZX9sCSkUTwRAv7tOv+ZUVFG78co Ov2vbs9meTMajOWPKjFzXBHzInQDxlz2gMZVwp06+Jb2xkvKOkVZd2UHtZY3/XNkj2xu kGSg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.110.41 with SMTP id hx9mr388784wjb.28.1393556350530; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:59:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.227.32.69 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:59:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.227.32.69 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:59:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:59:10 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] CS6 Project Collect Fails From: Allen Ellis To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e010d89e03f791304f36e9f02 --089e010d89e03f791304f36e9f02 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 If you suspect one of your files is causing it to fail, you can try the old brute force method of finding which one is causing it. Save a backup copy of your project then... Literally delete half the clips from your project. Try collect files again. If it doesn't work still, delete the other half. If that works, then undo, and this time only delete half of the clips that you just deleted. Rinse, lather, repeat until you can discover a pattern. A more drastic approach would be to delete all of your files or all except one to prove your theory that its a file problem. Then gradually undo and keep more and more of your files. It sounds like it could take all day, but if you are systematic and go in huge sections at a time, you could discover a lot by doing this for 5-10 minutes. Good luck! On Feb 27, 2014 9:36 PM, "David Torno" wrote: > Yuck, I feel your pain. Similar issue here, I believe image sequences are > involved, but I'll double check. I was trying to help narrow down a > culprit, and that's nearly impossible with so many files in a project. > > > -- > David Torno > Technical Director > http://www.ghosttownmedia.com > O: 213.739.2290 > C: 818.391.6060 > ------------------------------------------------ > http://aeioweyou.blogspot.com (vfx tutorials and AE scripts blog) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Zwar [mailto:chris@chriszwar.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 06:25 PM > To: 'After Effects Mail List' > Subject: Re: [AE] CS6 Project Collect Fails > > Unfortunately I often have problems with big projects and image sequences. > I'm working on a big one now, AE project file is approaching 100 meg, > overall duration is 5 minutes and there's 200 gig of pre-rendered image > sequences. Collect files seems to hang. Can't work out if AE has actually > crashed or if there's so much data that it will take a week for it to work. > I think it's the image sequences that do it, but my project has several > thousand imported items so maybe it just can't cope... > I ended up doing it manually. > > -Chris > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 28/02/2014, at 1:20 PM, "David Torno" wrote: > > > Got a co-worker stuck in CS6 trying to use the collect project feature. > It fails every time. All the quicktime files work fine, the drive is solid > and stable. He's tried having the footage local instead of on our server. > Keeps failing. Has anyone else come across this. Rolling out AE CC to the > machines is not an option unfortunately, if that happens to be THE solution. > > > > -- > > David Torno > > Technical Director > > http://www.ghosttownmedia.com > > O: 213.739.2290 > > C: 818.391.6060 > > ------------------------------------------------ > > http://aeioweyou.blogspot.com (vfx tutorials and AE scripts blog) > > > > > > > > +---End of message---+ > > To unsubscribe send any message to > > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to > > > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to > --089e010d89e03f791304f36e9f02 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

If you suspect one of your files is causing it to fail, you = can try the old brute force method of finding which one is causing it. Save= a backup copy of your project then...

Literally delete half the clips from your project. Try colle= ct files again. If it doesn't work still, delete the other half. If tha= t works, then undo, and this time only delete half of the clips that you ju= st deleted.

Rinse, lather, repeat until you can discover a pattern.

A more drastic approach would be to delete all of your files= or all except one to prove your theory that its a file problem. Then gradu= ally undo and keep more and more of your files.

It sounds like it could take all day, but if you are systema= tic and go in huge sections at a time, you could discover a lot by doing th= is for 5-10 minutes.

Good luck!

On Feb 27, 2014 9:36 PM, "David Torno"= <torno@sydefxink.com> wro= te:
Yuck, I feel your pain. Similar issue here, I believe image sequences are i= nvolved, but I'll double check. I was trying to help narrow down a culp= rit, and that's nearly impossible with so many files in a project.


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David Torno
Technical Director
http://www.ghos= ttownmedia.com
O: 213.739.2290
C: 818.391.6060
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http://aeioweyo= u.blogspot.com (vfx tutorials and AE scripts blog)

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Zwar [mailto:chris@chris= zwar.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 06:25 PM
To: 'After Effects Mail List'
Subject: Re: [AE] CS6 Project Collect Fails

Unfortunately I often have problems with big projects and image sequences. = I'm working on a big one now, AE project file is approaching 100 meg, o= verall duration is 5 minutes and there's 200 gig of pre-rendered image = sequences. Collect files seems to hang. Can't work out if AE has actual= ly crashed or if there's so much data that it will take a week for it t= o work. =A0I think it's the image sequences that do it, but my project = has several thousand imported items so maybe it just can't cope...
I ended up doing it manually.

-Chris

Sent from my iPhone

On 28/02/2014, at 1:20 PM, "David Torno" <torno@sydefxink.com> wrote:

> Got a co-worker stuck in CS6 trying to use the collect project feature= . It fails every time. All the quicktime files work fine, the drive is soli= d and stable. He's tried having the footage local instead of on our ser= ver. Keeps failing. Has anyone else come across this. Rolling out AE CC to = the machines is not an option unfortunately, if that happens to be THE solu= tion.
>
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> Technical Director
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> C: 818.391.6060
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