allocating memory?

[Jason Milligan]

You didn’t recently upgrade Quicktime by chance, did you?

[Paul Baker]

I did upgrade to Quicktime 7.4, but I took care of it with Pacifist last week, so I’m pretty sure that’s not the issue.

It’s funny that when I try to render out just “nothing” happens.. no errors, nothing..

SPECS:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB

[Darby Edelen]

[Paul Baker] “It’s funny that when I try to render out just “nothing” happens.. no errors, nothing..”

Does AE act as though the render finishes? Does it quit unexpectedly? Does it never even try to start rendering? Can you give more details?

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Paul Baker]

Hey Darby!

Yea, it looks as though it never even tries to start, it literally stays at 0% with the pinwheel spinning for hours with a 3 second clip to be exported.

“Does AE act as though the render finishes? Does it quit unexpectedly? Does it never even try to start rendering? Can you give more details?”

SPECS:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB

[Darby Edelen]

Could you post your Memory & Cache settings from AE’s preferences? Do you have Multiprocessing enabled?

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Paul Baker]

My memory and cache preferences are

Max Memory Usage 120 % = 3.0 GB

ImageCache
Max RAM Cache Size 49.4 % 1.5 GB

Enabled disk Cache
Max Disk Cache Size 20000 MB

and I don’t have Multiprocessing on, because I have Gridiron Nucleo Pro installed, and it is required that I unselect Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously.

SPECS:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB

[Darby Edelen]

[Paul Baker] “and I don’t have Multiprocessing on, because I have Gridiron Nucleo Pro installed, and it is required that I unselect Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously. “

Perhaps you should try disabling Nucleo Pro and seeing how your renders behave.

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Paul Baker]

Ok,

I took off Gridiron Nucleo Pro, and enabled the Multiprocessing option in the preferences. I let it try to render out a 4 second clip over night. It said it wanted four hours to do it. So when I got in this morning After Effects was frozen, with 3 minutes to go.

Any idea why this is happening?

Paul

SPECS:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB

[Paul Baker]

Hey Dave,

I am pretty sure I have everything taken care of. My About Quicktime player says QuickTime™ Version 7.3.1, Player Version 7.3.1 (7.3.1). Which I did by using Pacifist to re-install 7.3. Is there anything else I need to look into?

SPECS:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB

[Paul Baker]

Hey dave any ideas on where I can get the list for the certain manufactures for memory? My tech guy got us this cheap third party RAM, and he really doesn’t know anything about macs, so that’s what I’m guessing.

SPECS:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB