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I'm having a similar issue to Parzzi. Whenever I 'SquirtGif' i get the error popup that "It may appear the AE has crashed, but rendering will continue. After rendering, we compress your gif in a dos window' I select yes and the render completes but the DOS window doesn't open and I'm left with an avi file.

Im exporting to an external drive that has plenty of space and I am saving into a subfolder, and the "allow scripts to write files..." is selected, so I'm not too sure as to what is happening.

GunSquid6 years ago

Just to confirm, you are using Windows, correct?

MilkyWayMammals6 years ago

Yep I'm on windows

GunSquid6 years ago

Very strange. It almost sounds like you are missing files from the archive. Do you have a GIFsquid folder inside your Script UI folder?

MilkyWayMammals6 years ago

I do, and running AE as administrator ended up with the same result.

GunSquid6 years ago

Ok. Please try this for me. Open a new File Explorer window and go to c:\ProgramData (if the folder is hidden, just type it into the address bar)

Inside you should see two files: GIFsquid.log and squidyavi.bat. Open both of those in notepad and paste the contents here or to pastebin.

MilkyWayMammals6 years ago

Ah, so I'm not seeing those files there. Only a blank "GifSquid" text document.

GunSquid6 years ago

It really sounds like you're missing some files and/or AE isn't set to allow scripts to write files/access network. Please try re-extracting the JSXBIN file and the GIFsquid folder into your AE/ScriptUI folder and double-check the preference to allow scripts to write files. In your case, the script is choking at the point it should be able to write to C:\programdata

GunSquid6 years ago

Did you ever get this working?

Mikel.Jakobi6 years ago

Hello, I'm having the same problem. I did everything you suggested, but I keep getting the "AE has crashed" notification and it just renders the comp as an .avi file and then nothing else happens.

GunSquid6 years ago

Hi Mikel, Just to double-check, you are on Windows and you've done all of the installation steps, including setting AE to "allow scripts to write files and access the network"?

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Parzzi6 years ago

I hope i can help you with this as i found the problem with mine was that you have to run after effect as an administrator or it will not work at least for me that is the case.

Parzzi6 years ago

Try to run after effect as an administrator.

sbaak4 years ago

if someone comes across this. I enabled java debugger and now it still pops up but when I click continue in dos it works.

https://i.imgur.com/4xNlXzh.png

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