Katie, thanks for responding. I haven't been on the tech board for quite awhile so congrats on the job promotion!
The file is 11 MB.
creating 930 frames
"Vectorworks has suddenly quit?"
OS: OS 10.4.9
Quicktime player: 7.1.5
iMac
Machine Model: iMac6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
Animation creation will run for 1 to 2 hours before crashing. I've set my energy saver preferences to 'no sleep'.
Needless to say I don't sit around watching the screen for a couple of hours waiting for the process to complete. :-)
A majority of the file was created some time ago on either VW 10 or 11. So we may have one of those 'don't ever work on an old file in a new version of VW' situations.
regards,
bruce