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  • Locate image buffer fault, but cannot find composition of this size?

    Posted by Charlot Van otterloo on April 1, 2011 at 4:43 am

    I have the ‘cannot locate buffer for image size’ fault, discribed for many times on this forum. But the problem is that there is no composition of this size or bigger…. Checked the whole project now about 6 times. Also the compositions embedded in other compositions..

    Know al the tricks (secret menu, increase your RAM etc), but no luck…

    Does anyone has a great new trick? A easy quick way to find the composition I’m looking for? Search for size?

    Thanks is advance.
    Charlot

    Charlot Van otterloo replied 15 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Charlot Van otterloo

    April 1, 2011 at 4:50 am

    Ah yes, what is also weird, is that AFX rendered a lot a frames before without giving this message, that won’t render now anymore…

  • Michael Szalapski

    April 1, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    I’m with Dave, we need a lot more info. But, on the chance that this works, have you rebooted recently?

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  • Walter Soyka

    April 1, 2011 at 4:21 pm

    AE does not use a scanline renderer, so the comp sizes in your project are not the only things to check. In addition to Dave’s questions about your system, I’d add these about your project — do you have any large images? Any layers with big blurs, glows, or shadows?

    Walter Soyka
    Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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  • Charlot Van otterloo

    April 1, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    The probleem appears to be magicly fixed… it rendering now, after trying for hours.
    I also checked the psd footage, it is big and whit affects as glow and shadow, but not the size that After FX is talking about.
    I am rendering on a MacPro,6 GB, AFX CS4, OSX, footage is al .psd layers.

    Thanks for replying.

  • Walter Soyka

    April 1, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    [Charlot van Otterloo] “The probleem appears to be magicly fixed… it rendering now, after trying for hours.”

    If it fails again, I suggest rendering to an image sequence instead of a movie. You can resume a failed image sequence render right where it left off.

    [Charlot van Otterloo] “I also checked the psd footage, it is big and whit affects as glow and shadow, but not the size that After FX is talking about.”

    The dimensions add up — if you have a big PSD, effects that go beyond the borders of the image’s raster (like blurs, glows, and shadows) add to the size of the image buffer necessary to store the layer in memory.

    Walter Soyka
    Principal & Designer at Keen Live
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
    RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
    Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

  • Charlot Van otterloo

    April 1, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    Yep, already am rendering as TIFF sequence.
    I will keep it in mind that I won’t use big psd files with glows etc next time. Thanks for the tip!

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