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Anyone else having problems? The video I'm making is only about 2 minutes long. It is chopped up like crazy with lots of edits but it shouldn't be that big of an issue. I tried freezing every track and that didn't help. Any thoughts?

Here's the insanely long crash report which I can't even fully paste:

Process: Live [142]
Path: /Applications/Live 8/Live.app/Contents/MacOS/Live
Identifier: com.ableton.live
Version: 8.0.4 (8.0.4)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [69]

Date/Time: 2009-06-24 00:36:52.627 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.7 (9J61)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 618A7D39-1C1B-4A9A-8708-C30E16BACE5D

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00000000002936d0
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 QuickTimeH264.scalar 0x2b7af4f2 JVTCompEncodeFrame + 3256967
1 QuickTimeH264.scalar 0x2b483acf JVTDecoDrawBand + 1162
2 ...ple.QuickTimeH264.component 0x953d714d JVTDecoComponentDispatch + 170
3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x927779c9 CallComponentDispatch + 29
4 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x9525185b ImageCodecDrawBand + 43
5 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94c0235f BaseCodec_DecompressWorkFunction + 1089
6 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94c00158 BaseCodec_DecompressCallBack_Common + 1300
7 com.apple.QuickTime 0x941d7603 ExecuteCallBack_priv + 125
8 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94be250f rescheduleTimeCallBack + 288
9 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94be25ef CodecClockTimeChanged + 56
10 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94be27ac CodecClockComponentDispatch + 125
11 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x927779c9 CallComponentDispatch + 29
12 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x9525cb00 ClockTimeChanged + 43
13 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94be229a CodecClockSetTime + 93
14 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94be27ac CodecClockComponentDispatch + 125
15 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x927779c9 CallComponentDispatch + 29
16 com.apple.QuickTime 0x941d73e3 QTCodecClockSetTime + 43
17 com.apple.QuickTime 0x941d738c SetDSequenceNonScheduledDisplayTime + 121
18 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94af496e Video2MoviesTask + 4277
19 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x92778063 CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1403
20 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94ae3525 Video2ComponentDispatch + 210
21 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x927779c9 CallComponentDispatch + 29
22 com.apple.QuickTime 0x941b911f MediaMoviesTask + 61
23 com.apple.QuickTime 0x941150a4 TaskMovie_priv + 4811
24 com.apple.QuickTime 0x941f5b3f MoviesTask_priv + 100
25 com.ableton.live 0x00ec02b0 AClipFades::~AClipFades() + 4862
26 com.ableton.live 0x00ec02e1 AClipFades::~AClipFades() + 4911
27 com.ableton.live 0x00e3e984 AQuickTimeVideoWindow::~AQuickTimeVideoWindow() + 470
28 com.ableton.live 0x00edadb2 AMultiSampleModule::~AMultiSampleModule() + 18464
29 com.ableton.live 0x00e04cd5 TMediaFileRefBeforeRelocate::~TMediaFileRefBeforeRelocate() + 10587
30 com.ableton.live 0x00e04d40 TMediaFileRefBeforeRelocate::~TMediaFileRefBeforeRelocate() + 10694
31 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94e2e3b6 getVideoDataFromDataProc + 161
32 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94e32d0d NuOutputVideoPass + 835
33 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94e33bfb NuOutputVideo + 1195
34 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94e1abee SpitMovieFromProceduresToDataRef + 3177
35 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x94e17f2d SpitMovieComponentDispatch + 187
36 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x927779c9 CallComponentDispatch + 29
37 com.apple.QuickTime 0x94364926 MovieExportFromProceduresToDataRef + 49
38 com.ableton.live 0x00e06b4a TMediaFileRefBeforeRelocate::~TMediaFileRefBeforeRelocate() + 18384
39 com.ableton.live 0x00e06e4b TMediaFileRefBeforeRelocate::~TMediaFileRefBeforeRelocate() + 19153
40 com.ableton.live 0x00e26851 TMediaFileWentOnline::~TMediaFileWentOnline() + 27881
41 com.ableton.live 0x00e26d70 TMediaFileWentOnline::~TMediaFileWentOnline() + 29192
42 com.ableton.live 0x014a992a AEventRecording::~AEventRecording() + 2850
43 com.ableton.live 0x013b02f3 AWindowBase::DoBeforePrepareClose() + 4647
44 com.apple.Foundation 0x96253517 __NSFireTimer + 279
45 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x92db5ac5 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 4469
46 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x92db5c78 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
47 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9716528c RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283
48 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x971650a5 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
49 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x97164f19 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 106
50 com.apple.AppKit 0x91be6d0d _DPSNextEvent + 657
51 com.apple.AppKit 0x91be65c0 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128
52 com.apple.AppKit 0x91bdf5fb -[NSApplication run] + 795
53 com.ableton.live 0x013bfcd6 AApplication::~AApplication() + 55940
54 com.ableton.live 0x013b0a19 AWindowBase::DoBeforePrepareClose() + 6477
55 com.ableton.live 0x00002ed2 0x1000 + 7890
56 com.ableton.live 0x00002df9 0x1000 + 7673

Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9129f2c2 semaphore_wait_trap + 10
1 com.ableton.live 0x00399056 OAutomation::EventPriority(long) const + 44954
2 com.ableton.live 0x004197a5 ASimpleCredentials::~ASimpleCredentials() + 2561
3 com.ableton.live 0x004197c9 ASimpleCredentials::~ASimpleCredentials() + 2597
4 com.ableton.live 0x00397131 OAutomation::EventPriority(long) const + 36981
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x912d0155 _pthread_start + 321
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x912d0012 thread_start + 34

Well i experience crashes even for just audio export...

what I discovered is that if you do not click somewhere else in the rendering window it will crash when you press ok.

I also have a crash when exporting audio from time to time... This is really annoying. Ableton closes up but the process is still alive, I can not even kill the process in the task list, I have to restart the PC!
Is somebody working on a solution for next releases?

been battling with this on v7.0.16

Like you i've got lots of video edits.

I tried exporting a session that had no or little edits and it exported fine.

What I found was getting QT export error -108 after upgrading from 7.0.10
which have found out is QT memory error

I ran the same thing and opened Activity Monitor and slowly watched both ableton memory
use and a kernel task memory use start to sky rocket as it went thru.

Basically I've been able to get around it by export the video in smaller segments.
But I tried joining them in QT player and there was wierdness in the audio.

So what I'm going to attempt next is to re-import the 3 sub clips back into albeton.
Place them and then re output again...with only 3 edits it should handle it ok and keep
the audio nice n' smooth.

Will update

YEs this worked...

Reducing the number of edits helps cut down on the memory.

Trying to "join" them in QT player didn't work.

I exported Bars 1-17 (1 bar out overlap)
then 16-34, 33-42 etc.

I named the export movies as such "movie A01, movie B16, movie C33 etc"

Then just drag them onto a new track in the arrangement window to
the appropriate bar, when you drag the next set in it will cut of the one
extra overlap bar, and keep going.

I now only had 4 edits in my video track now and could now export the
whole song as a complete movie!!!!

It's not too hard of a work around, but better than all the crashing!

@DJ K-Tel Cheers for that info..

Have been fretting over this for a couple of weeks now, too, and also i believe it's some kind of upgrade issue with QTime..
I'm still on Live version 8.02, and am only now downloading the latest update, so i'm hesitant to believe it's due to Live.
Actually ordered a new hard disk, thinking mine's just buggered

Having noticed that i have differently encoded videos combined, and thought, to give it a try to reformat them;
do you guys perhaps have differently encoded movies, too??

...Anyway, will definitely try out your approach!

Would also like to know if there might be more people experiencing this, as this is the only post i can find on this subject, within this forum

i think what ever causes Quicktime to "work hard" will make it run out of memory.
SO things like resizing, rescaling, mixed codec etc. may seem to do this.

that's why i suggest "bouncing" in smaller chunks.

check out a few of the final videos here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXLCIv-25wU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOXZwhRmjY0

Thanks for your reply.

Nice vids

yao thanks for the advice k-tel,

what are you doing to piece the video back together once you have all the separately bounced sections?!
are you throwing the final video pieces back into ableton than exporting it again?


in the middle of trying to export chunk by chunk, bah this is pain

Yes bring each piece back in and bounce again
I found it helpful o Jane eachpiece on export
tomake sure ibrought themback in properly