• Adobe After Effects

  Memory/cashe help! Cant render!

  Posted by Aaron Bear on September 15, 2008 at 12:55 am

  Can someone please help me, I dont know how to adjust the settings in memory/cashe preferences.

  I have 4 gigs of ram but I cant get any decent RAM previews, or even render!
  My footage is 640×480, has been spliced together and spead up. If I select the region to do a preview, even on half or third resolution, it will only preview for maybe a second or two before giving me a memory error and crashing After Effects. Im only trying to render a 4-5 minute video, exporting as a quicktime movie, MPEG-4 compression on medium setting. When I export it says insuffecient memory and stops the render.
  I never used to have these issues before when I had 2 gigs of RAM and before rebuilding my computer. What should my memory settings be?

  I have enabled the cashe memory option on my harddrive in hopes of getting longer previews or renders but it doesnt work.
  Any ideas or suggestions?

  Aaron Bear replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chris Wright

  September 15, 2008 at 3:17 am

  What is your system spec? windows or mac and proc, ram
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  Aaron Bear

  September 15, 2008 at 7:55 am

  My system is a windows pc laptop (xp), 4 gigs of ram (though it only reads 3.25 because Im not on a 32-bit system…I think), Intel Core Duo processor and an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS video card. Basically a powerful laptop gaming system.

  I read the AE Help guide on memory/cashe and went back to the default settings. This atleast allowed me to render a short clip without crashing, but my previews are still horrible. Is there an easy way to determine the optimum memory/cashe settings for my computer?

  -Aaron-
  “Wherever you go, there you are”

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