Crashing on Renders CS3 and AE7

[Ben Piercey]

If you are not using multi-processing (either from Nucleo or AE CS3), I’d suggest that you tweak your memory prefs in AE.

The default setting for image caches is 60% of physical RAM. It sometimes happens that your renders hit a point in the comp where the frame size is huge or the amount of cached data peaks to some crazy level where the default limits get exceeded.

I’d try bumping that 60% number up to say 90% and see if your renders get any further. (you don’t need to change the one that’s set to 120% – just leave it)

Even if this works, I’d still recommend dropping it back down to the default once you get through this crunch.

If you ARE using multi-processing – forget everything I just said ’cause the rule change in that case :).

Hope this helps,

Ben Piercey
GridIron Software

[Jerzy Drozda jr]

You may also try this:

1) Start up After Effects
2) Press Ctrl + Shift
3) While holding those buttons go to Edit > Preferences > General
4) When it opens up lzet go of the keys
5) Click on the dropdown menu

now there is a hidden section called “Secret”. Click on it.

In the options CHECK “Disable Layer Cache”, and enter the number
between 5 and 15. This works best.

This may be not the best solution, but it should help.
If it doesn’t you should do a test of your RAM.

Oh! And keep “Ignore Sequence Rendering Errors” UNCHECKED.

Good luck!

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[Kevin Monahan]

Thanks guys, I’ll try these things.

Kevin Monahan
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