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  • AE arror issue: HELP

    Posted by John Suzuki on September 5, 2007 at 3:36 am

    I got this message and I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do to fix this.
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    I’m on Win Vista Home Premium, AE CS3
    After Effects arror: unable to allocate space for a 2404 X 2736
    image buffer.
    You may experiencing fragmentation. In the Memory & Cache Preferences dialog box, try decreasing the Maximum RAM Cache Size value and selecting the Enable Disk Cache option, increasing Maximum Memory Usage, or both.

    (7 ::66)
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    Can someone help me what to do with this?

    John Suzuki replied 18 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Rich Ramazinski

    September 5, 2007 at 4:48 am

    AE’s trying to tell you that your system doesn’t have enough RAM to piece together the composition you’ve made.

    For me, the main problem is that my composition (or some of my nested comps) is too large (I try to stay under 2000 x 2000). If you need to stay huge, sometimes i take the time to “windowpane” a shot (cut 1 big comp up into 2 or 4 sections).

    These tricks chop up your project into managable pieces that AE doesn’t choke on.

    Of course, you could also mess with your image cache/RAM settings under Preferences, or go fill up your system with more RAM…

  • John Suzuki

    September 5, 2007 at 9:13 pm

    thanks for the response.

    I got it to work with changing the Maximum cache and enable the cache.

    So, the “enable disc cache” keeps eating up the storage unless I delete them, or they just go away?

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