I decided not to upgrade to the latest release yet, waiting for some possible bugs and crashings that may allways happen. I´d rather stick with what I am used to, untill I hear no problems from the new release.
Well, perhaps I should have done so.
Yesterday evening Arena failed on me for the very first time during a live event.
I was running Arena 4.1.3 with a 1024x768 composition.
04 content layers, no effects at all.
Advanded output setting using 06 slices - none routed, meaning all for the entire composition.
After a few hours running smoothly, a regular fade transition and the interface freezes.
The Macbook Pro was still running fine. I could open and close new applications, but couldn´t acess any button on Arena´s interface. That Mac´s "colorfull spining wheel icon" was on Arena and never gone away. Arena got struck in some math and would´t get out of it. I waited for almost a minute and had no other option than force quit and restart it over. Of course, everybody in the show noticed. ; (
For the rest of the night and the show, no new crashes. JFYI.
Paulo