• Adobe After Effects

  Can’t Preview Render More than 2 seconds at a time.

  Posted by Stephen Hellweg on March 27, 2008 at 4:18 pm

  Hello Gurus,

  I have installed AFX CS3 on my new computer and am having memory issues. I can’t scrub video or audio very well. I keep getting “can’t render seconds of audio” messages. And most bothersome-I can’t preview more than 2 seconds at full resoulution. only a few more at half res.

  The compostions are not that complex, consisting of a base audio layer (.wav) and some animated text layers, a few psd images scaled for the project, and a few video clips(audio off)There is NO 3-D.

  My computer is running:
  Vista Home Premium
  Intel Core 2 Quad CPU @ 2.66 GHZ
  4 GB of RAM
  NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX video card
  Creative SB X-FI sound card
  500 GB Hard Drive

  30″ Monitor at 2560 X 1600

  My old rinky dink computer performed much better.
  I’m not an expert on the Tech end but I’m guessing it may be this damn BIG ASS monitor.

  Also I don’t know if this would make a difference or not but I have my video files on the same drive as the operating system.

  I’ve made adjustments in the preferences to the best of my knowledge to no avail.

  Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
  Thanks
  Stephen

  Stephen Hellweg replied 18 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 9 Replies
• 9 Replies

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  Stephen Hellweg

  March 27, 2008 at 5:37 pm

  Could the hard drive be the issue? My old computer did fine with one drive(that was Version 7 though).

  all the files are .avi
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  Darby Edelen

  March 27, 2008 at 5:52 pm

  Out of curiosity, what size is your composition and what are your Memory & Cache settings?

  Darby Edelen
  Designer
  Left Coast Digital
  Santa Cruz, CA
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  Stephen Hellweg

  March 27, 2008 at 6:38 pm

  It’s a thirty second comp. consists of about 20 layers of animated fonts and a few images and video segements(bits and pieces spread accross the length)it has one 30 second .wav audio file.

  The Memeory and Cache are set at default. (don’t know much about adjusting these)

  Thanks
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  Stephen Hellweg

  March 27, 2008 at 8:05 pm

  So nobody thinks the BIG ASS monitor settings have anything to do with it?
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  Darby Edelen

  March 27, 2008 at 8:57 pm

  [Stephen Hellweg] “It’s a thirty second comp.”

  I’m sorry, I should’ve been clearer. What resolution is your composition?

  Darby Edelen
  Designer
  Left Coast Digital
  Santa Cruz, CA
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  Stephen Hellweg

  March 27, 2008 at 9:11 pm

  720 by 480
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  Stephen Hellweg

  March 27, 2008 at 9:28 pm

  Well that’s good to know. Unfortunately XP won’t support the BIG ASS monitor. Or so I’ve been told.
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  Butch Golden

  March 27, 2008 at 10:39 pm

  XP doesn’t care what kind of monitor you have. The relationship between the monitor and the computer is a function of the video card and it’s drivers only. If you have a video card that will support that resolution, it should work. If not, get one that will.

  The way it works;
  XP talks to the video card and it (in turn) communicates with the monitor. XP says “Here’s 16 bits of instruction and 16 bits of data in one clock cycle.” The video card says “OK, I’ll display it at X/X res.” It can’t though if it doesn’t have geometry coordinates for your BA resolution in it’s firmware.
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  Stephen Hellweg

  March 28, 2008 at 12:30 pm

  so the BIG ASS monitor and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX video card aren’t using any memory that After Effects could otherwise take advantage of?

  Those bastards at dell told me That XP wouldn’t support this 30″ Monitor.

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