• Adobe After Effects

  AE CS3 Image Buffer Horror / RAM hell

  Posted by Rafael Metz on April 11, 2008 at 10:30 am

  Hi there,

  I have the complete horror with AE CS3 8.0.2 on my MacPro 2.66 with 5GB RAM. AE has serious problems allocating memory/image buffer. The problem occurs when rendering a movie and then (after render abort) is continuing when clicking from one fram to another within the timeline. I tried to change the Memory&Cache settings (now 50%/50%/DiskCache 900000). Nothing helped.
  It´s like I ask myself if CS3 is usable at all at this version.

  Do you have any solutions?

  Thanks
  Rafael

  Darby Edelen replied 18 years ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Curious Turtle

  April 11, 2008 at 12:43 pm

  Are you working with super-large images by any chance?

  Purge the image cache – Edit > Purge > Image Cache should get you working a bit more.

  When rendering, you should look at automatically purging the memory every few frames. Do a Search for “Secret Preferences”.

  All the best,
  Ben

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  Rafael Metz

  April 11, 2008 at 1:10 pm

  Hi Ben,

  thank you for your answer.
  Super-large images are not used in this actual project.

  I do use the german version of AE and I´m not sure if I find this one:

  When rendering, you should look at automatically purging the memory every few frames.

  Are there some render settings that could be optimized?

  Thanks and greetings
  Rafael
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  Curious Turtle

  April 11, 2008 at 2:13 pm

  Do a search on this forum for “Secret Preferences” and you’ll find instructions about how to Purge the cache when rendering.

  It should be there no matter the localisation of After Effects.
  Cheers,
  Ben

  Curious Turtle Professional Video
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  http://www.curiousturtle.com
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  Matt Silverman

  April 11, 2008 at 5:30 pm

  If you have the MP prefs set to Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously, this could be your problem. You do not have enough RAM to make this work right, and it is a bit sketchy in general.

  Your memory prefs sound wrong as well… keep the Max Memory Usage at 120%, and lower the Max RAM cache size to prevent memory errors… if you drop it down to 10% you should be able to render almost anything since it will swap to your hard drive (ie. slows you down but gets the job done).
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  Darby Edelen

  April 11, 2008 at 6:43 pm

  [Rafael Metz] “I tried to change the Memory&Cache settings (now 50%/50%/DiskCache 900000”

  Change these settings to 120%/50%/2000. The first value you are currently using is starving AE for memory and the third is telling AE to essentially starve your hard drive of any space (900000MB is 900GB… do you have 900GB of available storage? Or did you type that incorrectly?).

  Your second value (Maximum RAM Cache Size) looks good.

  Darby Edelen
  Lead Designer
  Left Coast Digital
  Santa Cruz, CA

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