AE 7.0 export problem

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kagibson2

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I'm new to 7.0 pro and I'm having some serious exporting problems. I have a project with about 30 layers, nothing too complicated... DV NTSC. When I try to export or render I get one of a few errors. "unspecified drawing error" or "out of memory" I'm running on a dual-core PC with WindowsXP, 4 gigs of ram. I've allocated the maximum or 3 gigs to AE.
I have tried rendering in the render queue (DV setting, lossless) and I get an error almost every time. I have also tried exporting as Quicktime animation, full resolution. When that does work, the video does not play back right. I am doing chroma keying, and when it plays back, it looks like the screen is split in fourths. 1/4 is not keyed like it should be, 1/4 is keyed correctly, and the bottom half is missing the top layer and is only the background. It's like a perfect + in the screen. It goes in and out like that and skips. The comp is 2:30.
I have tried opening a new project, importing the composition, and same problem. I'm afraid something is corrupt.
I started a new job doing video for a website, and I look like a complete jackass because I can't get this solved. I usually work on a Mac, but my boss bought an Adobe Suite for PC. Any help would be appreciated.

Also, any thing to make renders and exports faster would REALLY help. We're on a tight schedule. Thanks.

here's a screen capture:

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The unspecified drawing errors are often caused by video card problems. One of the PCs (aka Piece of Crap) in our studio was getting those and updating the video card driver fixed it. I also ended up using the secret menu to have AE flush the cache every 10 frames or so, and that helped as well:

hold down the shift key while you open the Edit>Preferences>General menu. Once that window opens, click the drop-down and there is a new option called secret. Here you can specify cache flushing for renders.
 
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