Quick Tip – After Effects Force Quit and Save

Quick Tip – After Effects Force Quit and Save

on Feb 14th 2013 with 11 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Run Time: 2:08 min

This is a Quick Tip showing you how to save your work when After Effects freezes up on you without force quitting and losing any unsaved data.

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Joe Lilli is a computer graphics designer whose diverse skills include motion graphics, compositing, visual effects, and 3D for television, film, and the web. He is currently Senior Animator at Buster (http://www.busterdesign.tv/). He also runs a new blog, Break Into Motion Graphics (http://breakintomotiongraphics.com/), designed to help the beginner to intermediate artist with the practical side of the business, including marketing yourself, networking, getting hired, becoming a successful artist and balancing work with life.  

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  • http://www.facebook.com/CheeseggProductions Kevin Stiller

    Holy crap, this is helpful

  • toddkopriva

    If you’re having trouble with After Effects hanging or crashing, make sure that you’ve installed the latest updates ( http://adobe.ly/lsrkmJ ). They fix a lot of problems.

  • http://twitter.com/fwhq Family Wellness HQ

    Tried it on windows using taskkill but it just kills it without saving…

  • hadipour

    New techniques after effects
    http://www.video-effects.ir/?p=2548

  • gokhan babur

    Hi,thanks for great tips but I have a question how can I use this method for Adobe Illustrator?
    because I have a problem with Adobe Illustrator maybe this quick-tip help me…
    Thank you.

  • http://twitter.com/jlpeacock Jason Peacock

    Great tip Joe, but to save yourself looking through the activity monitor etc you can use this handy OSX app http://aescripts.com/ae-suicide-after-effects-crash-recovery/

  • http://fabiantheblind.info/ Fabian

    Hi Joe, thanks for that tip. I liked it so much I build a tiny shell script out of it. Have a look over here https://github.com/fabiantheblind/killae

    • Tobias Lind

      Great.

      An extra touch is to open Automator
      Create an Application
      In Library, select Utilities (or search for Run Shell Script)
      Double click on Run Shell Script
      Remove cat and paste the script into the window (I used the second version that just killed the latest.)
      Then save the Application.

      There you have an application that you can put into your dock and run whenever in need.

  • soulcrft

    Here is another one as a mac app. Runs on your status bar with the ability to auto launch and shutdown when AE is running. http://toejam.990adjustments.com

  • Luděk Roleček

    If it’s platform dependant tip or tutorial it would be great if it was stated somewhere in surrounding text, or even better in the headline. The first sign that this is Mac only tip is exactly halffway through the video.

    This isn’t a critique of the Joe’s tip. It’s about editorial decisions surrounding the tip. Luckily, in this case of short tip I wasted only one and half minute to realize this won’t work for me. Please keep this in mind for future tutorials – it’s super frustrating for your readers.