• Adobe After Effects

  cant create Image Buffer error – AE CS4 and Latest Mac

  Posted by Butch Mcdonald on June 30, 2010 at 3:27 am

  I’ve tried everything I can to find out info on this ( only found docs from 2004 or 2006)… can anyone tell me why cs4 and the latest mac with 16 gig of ram gives me this error. My partner has a similar machine with more ram but the only difference is that he is on Leopard and I am on Snow Leopard. His machine gives the same results.
  The only way I can complete a render is to purge all then restart render from just before error report and keep repeating this process until I finally get to the end of my comp. Then I have to piece it together in post. Really annoying for a brand new machine.
  Most of my comps are working in 3D space, sometimes I even get the error with standard def comp sizes with footage or images no larger than HD.
  Can anyone help
  Cheers

  Butch Mcdonald replied 15 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  June 30, 2010 at 8:59 am

  Those older documents that you refer to are just as relevant now.

  The main reason that we made After Effects CS5 a 64-bit application was so that problems like this dreaded image buffer error would never happen again.

  For After Effects CS4, I recommend that you try reducing the RAM requirements for rendering of the frames in your composition. Here’s a section in After Effects Help that gives information about how to go about that.

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  Andrea Sorrentino

  July 1, 2010 at 5:45 am

  For me, choosing Edit > Purge > Image Cache fixed the problem. I have to do it before each render.

  Also here are more possible solutions:
  https://generalspecialist.com/2006/11/avoiding-after-effects-error-could-not.asp

  Good luck 🙂
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  Butch Mcdonald

  July 1, 2010 at 5:57 am

  Thanks Todd,
  I think I am pushing the bounds a bit with my project…the only thing i have not tried is the little secret menu, but anyway I think I might upgrade if that’s going to stop this really annoying problem.
  Thanks again for your reply

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