after effects cs5 render freeze 12 core 64G RAM

[Chris Curtiss]

Kevin, I’ve just experienced the same problem/error. Although my machine isn’t as powerful as Noahs.

Using CS5.5

Here’s a bit of info on specs etc:

2 x 2.4 GHz Quad Core Mac Pro, with 16GB 1066 RAM, ATI Radeon HD 5770.

Render Settings:
1920 x 1080
Quicktime Animation Codec (Need as high res as possible, but willing to sacrifice a little if it means speeding up the process dramatically)

Memory Preferences:
Installed RAM: 16GB
Ram reserved for other applications: 3GB
Ram available for AE: 13GB

Multiprocessing Preferences:
Installed CPUs: 16
CPUs reserved for other applications: 0
RAM allocation per background CPU: 2GB
Actual CPUs that will be used: 5

Media & Disk Cache:
Maximum DIsk Cache Size: 20GB

XMP Metadata: Both boxes ticked.

In ‘Secret’ Preferences, I have Disable Layer Cache unticked and Purge Every 3 Frames.

Open GL is Off

The error that Noah mentioned appeared for me after around 7 hours of rendering. Est. Time remaining was 6 Hours. The clip was usable that was rendered out, so I’ve decided to trim the comp from where it ‘crashed’ and render the rest out.

The composition is 1 minute long in it’s entirety, and ‘crashed’ around 35 seconds.

From reading that, is there anything you could suggest to speed up this render? It’s the slowest I’ve ever had using this machine, whether that be because of what I’m rendering, or the Memory/Multiprocessing settings I really don’t know. If you need any more info to help, please let me know. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

[Gabriel Suchowolski]

Workaround for the memory bug of CS 5.5 After Effects

But will make you not to have multicore render 🙁

https://cocoe.tumblr.com/post/23800923723/workaround-for-the-memory-bug-of-cs-5-5-after-effects