After Effects Error Messages And Meanings

1 After Effects Error Messages And Meanings

This is a collection of known After Effects error messages and their meanings, as well as possible solutions. We want to keep this list as up to date as possible, so if you run into an error message that isn't listed here, please email Deadline Support and let us know.

Exception during render: Renderer returned non-zero error code, -1073741819

The error code -1073741819 is equivalent to 0xC0000005, which represents a Memory Access Violation error. So After Effects is either running out of memory, or is touching memory that it shoudn't. If you find that your frames are still being rendered, you can modify the After Effects plugin in Deadline to ignore this error.

Just add the following line of code to the AfterEffects.dlinit file in //your/repository/plugins/aftereffects. Note that the code below must be all on one line, and can be added after the "RenderStartupDir=..." line.

CheckReturnCode=if( ReturnCode() != 0 ) { if( ReturnCode() != -1073741819 ) { FailRender( "Renderer returned non-zero error code, " ..ReturnCode() ); } }

aerender ERROR: No comp was found with the given name.

This can occur for a number of reasons, most of which are related to the name of the comp. Examples are names with to spaces next to each other, or names with apostrophes in them. Try using only alphanumeric characters and underscores in comp names and output paths to see if that resolves the issue.

Exception during render: Renderer returned non-zero error code, 1
Slave Log:
aerender ERROR: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
Unable to receive at line 287
aerender ERROR: After Effects can not render for aerender. Another instance of aerender, or another script, may be running; or, AE may be waiting for response from a modal dialog, or for a render to complete. Try running aerender without the -reuse flag to invoke a separate instance of After Effects.

It is unknown what the exact cause of this error is, but it is likely that After Effects is simply crashing or running out of memory. If you are rendering with Concurrent Tasks set to a value greater than 1, try reducing the number and see if that helps.

The Knoll Light Factory plugin has also been known to cause this error message when it can't get a license.