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Any Known RAM/MAC OS problems? Sorry long message.
I also posted this with Adobe Forums, where it might be more suitable, but I appreciate any user insight.
I am starting to think that AE7 doesn’t play nice with either my OS(MAC 10.4.6) or the 2gig of RAM I have in the box… Ever since I started using AE7, I haven’t had a successful render and have had trouble with previews.
With regard to RENDERS: I’ve had mysterious “flash-frames” where a layer will disappear/reappear, prompting me to output fix frames and try to edit them into the quicktime movie (guessing at the timecode in QT 7.0.4pro, because it no longer displays time accurately in the info)…
I’ve had simple comps lined up for render (basically the same layer sets) and the first 3 went fine then the next one took successively longer and the next even longer(like 3 times) then all the rest failed..no explanation, just “failed”.
Just today a new batch I had set off to render overnight had a similar pattern of a couple rendering fine then the rest failed, however there was an error message:”After Effects warning:logged one error–“error: could not create 720 x 486 image buffer. (7 :: 66)”
When I hit OK and the screen tried to refresh the frame it was on, I had another error: “After Effects: not enough memory to create U_MemTrackedObject.(1K requested, OK available).Regarding RAM previews: I can’t scrub through a cached area in realtime when I let go of the playhead, the frame redraws.
Oh yeah, I can’t “hide” After Effects.
So, I’m looking for real insight here..I’m struggling with this OS upgrade and with this program upgrade I’m not jumping for joy either. Thanks.
BOX SPECS: MAC G5/Dual 1.8Ghz/2Gig RAM/OSX 10.4.6
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I’ve running a Quad G5 with 4GB of RAM and no issues at all. Which is more than I can say for my Athlon X2 PC. I have nothing but issues there.
The G5’s are very finicky about RAM, matched pairs in spec. I’ve only used Premium RAM in any machine since RAM issues can be so flakey to troublshoot.
I’ve got RAMJET certified RAM in the G5 and have had no problems with any renders in AFX 7.
Have you tried increasing the disk cache?
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i’ve been having those same flash frame issues, im glad to hear someone else is too. But so far cant find any explanation after posting on every forum i can find. The wierd thing here is that its occured across three different machines.
Could you describe your project and your settings? perhaps we can see where something correlates between us?
my original post about this is here – https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=876457
Cheers,
Paul
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sorry it took so long to get back to this… I’ve included a link to the output still which shows the corrupt frame, I had one other in this project. The layer that was affected was the globe (all “dimmed-out” with scanline appearance), which was an imported rendered movie..My AE display did not show anything like this at full & best quality. Don’t get it…
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/vanhorn4/FINALOPEN_2.jpg
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