After Effects : Out of Memory Error

[Maygo Calme]

Okay thanks for the advice !
I’ll see because 64Go is a little bit out of my budget for now… ????

[Steve Bentley]

IMHO you have to go a little nuts to get AE to run out of memory. That’s the whole point of the Disk Cache. I’ve seen it chug, I’ve seen massive disk caches, but even when I’m working remotely on a small laptop (8GB), it’s slow but it still does the work. Even my decade old Macbook Pro with only 4Gb handles stuff we’re doing now (albeit at a snail’s pace).

It may be a single effect that needs a large memory buffer or an adjustment layer, or a continuously rasterize setting that’s keeping a file huge before sending it into either of the previous two listed items.

[Melvin Chong]

After Effects loads every frame as an uncompressed frame, hence the high ram usage. You can mitigate it with an NVMe drive as disk cache if your machine allows it or alternatively use a raid-0 Sata SSD.