Ok, So I've seen a few of these and I have seen that this issue is partly due to the fact that I have an external audio system. If I switch to the Internal audio output I don't crash, but the preview doesn't play properly—it seems like it's cacheing but not rendering. I can scrub and do almost everything else but preview.
I'm on a Mac Pro running El Capitan
2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
40 GB of DDR3 ECC
an SSD Startup and cache on another drive
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048 MB
Never had a problem with AE before (Yes, I get it, I should have waited)
I've tried a bunch of things like deleting preferences and starting from scratch. When I did this, smaller video files would preview fine but larger (2K) would not play and crashes the system. I have plenty of room on several internal drives and I've tried cacheing on each of them—same issue.
Here's one of the error messages I get.
After Effects Alert
A copy of your project was saved at: /Volumes/Skinny5-1TB/SFA Sofi 2017/Sofi2017-textOverlays (converted)_5.aep.
Last log message was: <123145346899968> <GPU Render Pipeline> <5> Copied GPU frame to CPU {x:1298, y:0, w:1920, h:1080} -> {x:1298, y:0, w:1920, h:1080} (8bpp)
The main error I seem to get is this:
After Effects Alert
A copy of your project was saved at: /Volumes/Skinny5-1TB/SFA Sofi 2017/Sofi2017-textOverlays (converted)_1.aep.
Last log message was: <123145346363392> <prefetch> <5> RequestPrefetchedFrame frame not in async list!
Is there anything that I can do to get this to work or does all this just suck to a point where I just have to re-install the old version?
I guess Adobe is aware of the issue?