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Frame Buffer error help
Hello all,
I am doing and animation comprised of a large photo with 3D layers and a camera. I am doing “The Kid Stays in the Picture” type effect giving synthetic depth and animation to still images.
I rendered this piece (1 min 20 sec) out a couple days ago and it rendered from start to finish with no problems. I’ve made revisions to some areas and am tring to re-render and am now getting various frame buffer error messages at points that did not change that rendered fine previously. I am now resorting to render in chunks and re-assemble. I could understand if it might be parts that I added more layers to that were crapping out. Not sure what is going on.
Have plenty of storage and memory.Is there a frame buffer limit or suggested size not to exceed with large still or still comps?
The most current error message was “Could not create a 6000 x 3400 frame buffer error message”.
I know that’s a sizeable comp….but I thought AE could handle that no prob….and it DID a couple days ago.
What could have changed?I purged all caches and memory….just in case.
What should I be looking at here?Thanks in advance!
~ThadAE 7 Quad core dual 2.5GHz G5/ 4 GB RAM
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5 Replies
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Not so much revisions…..as it was sweetening….adding a few more layers here and there…..reanimating/adjusting some of the camera moves and keyframes….giving more z-depth here and there to exaggerate the 3d depth on the moves. Going back into Photoshop and re-touching some things.
The weird part is…the problematic parts where it craps out….I didn’t really touch.
Thad
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[thadtrick] “I purged all caches and memory….just in case.
What should I be looking at here?”Purging the caches usually alleviates any frame buffer problems I’m having. Usually my next step is restarting AE, then restarting my computer.
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Y’know I was just thinking about rebooting….the usual snake oil for a lot of AE unsolved mysteries.
Didn’t want to take the time to do it. Might as well give it a try. -
Hi
here you can find pretty useful information about this issue
https://generalspecialist.com/archive/2006_11_01_archive.aspscroll down a bit.
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Slicing up your picture and keeping them organised with parenting is the way to go.
…or…In AE:
Hold Shift
Click Edit-Preferences-General (still holding shift)
In the drop down menu you’ll see “Secret”
There you can set the “purge every…frames”
renders take longer … but is renders !cya,
Jan
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