“After Effects : Out of Memory (1K requested)” while animating with puppet tool

[Ricky rachman Utomo]

i started using AE since 2009. But i just follow some tutorials. I don’t really know the inside of AE. But now, i want to go deeper with AE.

Multiprocessing is off. But still got that error. By the way, i tricked it, in certain frames, if i render preview it will got the error. But i moved to other frames. And got no error. So I trim my comp, then it worked.

thanks for your answer anyway. I’ll upgrade my RAM soon

[Michelle Tylicki]

Hey, I’m working on a similar computer and have encountered the exact problem with the puppet tool. I have solved the issue without changing any settings or adding RAM very simply:

My project was rather large and complicated for my machine (14mb).
So I isolated the object I was using the puppet tool on by saving the project with a new name (for example: puppet scene), and then deleting all other comps and files that I didn’t need for this puppet tool scene. When I’m done animating the puppet I’ll just export it on alpha and import it into the orginal master project.

Hope that helps!!

[Michelle Tylicki]

If you still haven’t found a solution try the Mesh properties:

1 expand the properties on the item with the pins attached.

2 expand Effects.

3 expand Puppet.

4 expand Mesh 1.

5 change triangles value to 200.

6 change expansion to 4.

Changing the triangles and expansion values was what solved it for me. If I put triangles back up to 300, I get the error. If I lower triangles the error goes away. If I didn’t adjust the expansion the mesh got a bit wonky and didn’t look right.

[Ricky rachman Utomo]

thanks michelle, i’ll try your solution if i get that problem in the future (…hopefully not)

[Jake Bastian]

This is definitely not a RAM thing. I’m currently running a system with 64 gigs of RAM and have been getting the same error when I open my project.

Are there any other solutions to this?

[Mandito Ag]

I hope this is useful somehow. I’ve just had a big problem with this. I was still working and then I got this error and a crash. So every time I tried to open the file and fix it AE crashed again only letting me know that my memory was not enough (16GB, not too shabby) So I couldn’t even fix it.

I looked everywhere, tweaked memory options and nothing, still crashed when I tried to open it, then I found that most of the times, the problem y that one of the layers is internally too big for after effects to work with it, But how could I check.

SUDDEN idea.

Open the file with refresh disabled (Caps Lock, only shutting down the comp preview window, if that’s its name, didn’t work) that way AE was not yet trying to calculate anything, and then I saw it, I still don’t know how, but probably a very wrong click made one of the layers huge, changed the values to someting more realistic and then, Caps Lock again and that’s it.

Silly mistake, lost a lot of time trying to figure it out since it didn’t make any sense, got really frustrated several times, but in the end my work was not lost so I’m smiling while I type this. Again, I hope this may help somebody.

From my perspective that layer size should be the problem most of the time and if your file is crashing your AE, refresh disabled is a good way to check it out. Cheers!