• Adobe After Effects

  Image Buffer

  Posted by Paul Cope on October 30, 2006 at 12:36 pm

  Hey

  I have recently purchased a new G5 mac pro and installed after effects onto it (aswell as extra RAM to make it more speedy) but now when i’m rendering in after effects I get a message that reads “Unable to create 720 x 576 Image Buffer”….which is aborting all my renders.

  Now, I think this is something to do with my graphics card but i’m not entirely sure. Can someone help me out with this? If it’s not the graphics card then what could it be?….and if it is the graphics card, where can I get my grubby little hands on one that will be sufficient?

  Cheers!

  Paul Cope replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Filip Vandueren

  November 1, 2006 at 12:13 am

  That’s the error I get when RAM is really full, and usually only with much larger buffer sizes like effects on layers that are thousands of pixels high or wide.

  – STupid question: is the RAM working, if you go to ‘about this mac’ is there enough RAM quoted ?

  – Is there a special kind of plugin or effect at work in your comp, or does it happen all the time, even when just re-rendering a quicktime ?

  – Trash the preferences file.

  – do a search on the cow for ‘secret preferences’ to have AE purge the ram while rendering, or watch Aharon’s podcast on how to do this.
• 

  Paul Cope

  November 1, 2006 at 9:28 am

  Well the RAM is definetly working, but the first time I had this message was when i was rendering a file that was thousands of pixels high and wide. Now I seem to get it whenever I am doing any kind of animation, just re-rendering a quicktime seems to be ok.

  So, it only seems to be when there are a few effects and filters in use that it struggles.

  I’ll try the secret preference and purge the RAM while rendering, then if it continues i’ll get back on here!

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up