• Adobe After Effects

  Error message for Open GL

  Posted by Phil Lister on December 6, 2007 at 4:36 am

  Everytime I work in AE, I get an error message that says:
  Open GL can’t release dc.

  What the heck…??? What is Open GL and how important is it?

  Currently, I’m working without a seperate video card, and using what’s on the motherboard. Would I do better to buy a seperate card? If so, what should I buy? I already know that the Nvidia cards are good, but any particular model?

  Thanks,
  Phil

  Phil Lister replied 18 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Conrad Olson

  December 6, 2007 at 9:59 am

  I had that issue when I was using an integrated graphics card. You can stop it happening by changing your Fast Preview options to adaptive resolution instead of using the OpenGL options. You can access these options by clicking on the small icon with a lightening bolt on at the bottom of the composition.

  OpenGL is a language that accellerates certain graphics operations using your graphics card. There is a list of graphics cards that the After Effects OpenGL is fully compatible with on the Adobe website.

  OpenGL is not vital and only works with certain effects. As I usually use other effects I tend to have my preview mode switched to adaptive resolution most of the time anyway. After Effects seems to be more stable in this mode.

  This tutorial does a pretty good job of explaining the pros and cons of using OpenGL: https://library.creativecow.net/articles/mylenium/open_gl.php
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  Phil Lister

  December 6, 2007 at 1:24 pm

  Conrad, thanks so much!

  I’ll check out the article on that.

  Phil

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