After Effects crashes when replacing file?

#1

One day when i opened an Adobe After Effects CS3 project, 70 (other times 90) out of around 120 files were missing even though i don’t recall even touching any of the files (all of the missing files were .mpg videos and .jpg pictures). Every time I try to replace the files, AE crashes. Sometimes it just closes, sometimes it freezes and i have to close it, other times it just sends me a message saying that AE has crashed, or that the i/o is damaged or something like that (that only happened once) I’ve tried replacing different files, moving the files around, and even installing AE into another computer and moving all the files there. It still crashes. I know that i can just export the project to a Premiere project but my videos are .mpg files and i’m too lazy to convert them since .mpg files that i import into Premiere don’t have audio. Besides, most of the time when i export to Premiere projects, it’s not 100% the same. Can someone please help me out? This is an EXTREMELY important project.

#2

JPG and MPGs being affected clearly indicate that an update or an external app replaced or blocked a critical DLL involved with the DCT operations required to view and create such files (probably something with SSE handling on your system being fishy), but unless you know which one, there is nothing you can do.

Mylenium

#3

is there any way to figure out which update or app is causing the problem? but i’m having the same problem on a separate computer. how can an update or app cause this problem on two different computers?

#4

If it’s a processor-specific update or some driver, then you may have simply the same problem on both systems due to identical hardware. also not that CoDec packs and such do a lot of damage in that area, so it is best not to use them. if you installed any, get rid of them. Other than that you may try to reinstall .NET runtimes, MSVC runtimes or MS Visual Studio Express to fix “bad” DLLs and straighten out things…

Mylenium

#5

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