• Adobe After Effects

  Crashing on Renders CS3 and AE7

  Posted by Kevin Monahan on July 31, 2007 at 12:21 am

  Hi All,
  I’m having some serious issues with crashing on renders, both in AE7 and CS3. The AE7 comps (about 15 files rendering) are all G5 duals rendering to Xsan and the CS3 is on a stand alone Intel Mac. We are getting out of memory errors as well, although we have 4 GB of RAM. I’ve tried everything and if the overnight renders crash again, then we are in a heap of trouble meeting the deadline.

  Any ideas?

  Kevin Monahan
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  Kevin Monahan replied 18 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Ben Piercey

  July 31, 2007 at 12:41 am

  If you are not using multi-processing (either from Nucleo or AE CS3), I’d suggest that you tweak your memory prefs in AE.

  The default setting for image caches is 60% of physical RAM. It sometimes happens that your renders hit a point in the comp where the frame size is huge or the amount of cached data peaks to some crazy level where the default limits get exceeded.

  I’d try bumping that 60% number up to say 90% and see if your renders get any further. (you don’t need to change the one that’s set to 120% – just leave it)

  Even if this works, I’d still recommend dropping it back down to the default once you get through this crunch.

  If you ARE using multi-processing – forget everything I just said ’cause the rule change in that case :).

  Hope this helps,

  Ben Piercey
  GridIron Software
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  Jerzy Drozda jr

  July 31, 2007 at 1:12 am

  You may also try this:

  1) Start up After Effects
  2) Press Ctrl + Shift
  3) While holding those buttons go to Edit > Preferences > General
  4) When it opens up lzet go of the keys
  5) Click on the dropdown menu

  now there is a hidden section called “Secret”. Click on it.

  In the options CHECK “Disable Layer Cache”, and enter the number
  between 5 and 15. This works best.

  This may be not the best solution, but it should help.
  If it doesn’t you should do a test of your RAM.

  Oh! And keep “Ignore Sequence Rendering Errors” UNCHECKED.

  Good luck!

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  Kevin Monahan

  August 1, 2007 at 6:27 pm

  Thanks guys, I’ll try these things.

  Kevin Monahan
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