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after effects using alot of memory
What am I doing wrong, new to AE.
I have a 1 gb clip of footage that I’ve opened in AE but cannot do edit as AE performs very sluggishly and keeps reading an error message that says “After Effects out of memory, 1025K requested”
I can see that when I let AE sit idle and don’t try to use it that it sits around 800-900 k of memory.
WHat am I doing wrong with the footage import into AE?
it’s SD footage less than 4 mins long.
thanks
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What version of AE are you running ? Have you tried to work at half or quarter resolution (drop down menu just under the preview area).
Also, how much ram have you allowed After to access (via the edit > preferences > memory).
Last but not least: PC or Mac, and which OS ?
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running cs4. half res helps a little bit but it still uses too much memory.
Have not messed with the Ram for AE to access, i’ll try that as well
pc, vista 32
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i think the ram is the problem, what’s an optimal setting for the ram?
here is what it’s set at2 cpu’s
installed ram 2 gb
total AE memory usage .8 gb
ram to leave for another application: .25 gb -
Well, it obviously a ram problem, but with 2gb of ram, and Vista 32, i still manage to work with HD footage, so your SD should not be a problem.
If you have multi processing on, deactivate it. On my Laptop configuration, i have 1,2gb of ram for after, 0,25 for the rest, and multiprocessing off. I can even deal with 4k footage without any problem.
When you launch after, be sure to close any other greedy app, such as Photoshop, Premiere, Word, …
In low memory configuration, multi-tasking with heavy program can mess up things.
Tell me if it worked for you.
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I’m pretty sure that is the way it was set up when I first asked this question. I had since changed it to use multi processing (render multiple frames simultaneously with min. allocation per cpu 1.4 gb)
If I uncheck multiprocessing, the only thing that would be different from when the problem was first noticed would be that I changed the folder that the disk cache takes place in which is now an empty drive.
after effects memory usage is set back to 1.2 gb and ram for other apps is .25 gb
I have also checked prevent DLL address space fragmentation
Hope this works, thanks for your help
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