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HD files crash on render
Hi there,
Thanks in advance for your help.
So I’m currently working on a project that is all graphics, no footage, but no major effects or 3D layeres, in a 1920 x 1080 work space.
The specs of my computer are as follows:
8 core Mac Pro (2 – 3GHz quad core)
4 gigs of Ram
OS 10.5and working with AE CS3
The issue I’m running into is that when I render this file as a QT uncompressed animation, it quits about 3/4 of the way through giving me a buffering error. We fiddled with the Memory and Cache preferences.
This isn’t the first time it happened either. Earlier in the year we were working on an HD project where I used quite a bit of 3D layers as well as Keylight. AE didn’t like it one bit. We had to render in chunks then sew it together in Avid.
Is there a fail safe system in dealing with this sort of issue? Always well into the 6th hour after waiting all night, AE gives up and I’ve wasted a full night’s sleep.Is it just crazy to think I can render such a large file as a QT Animation, uncompressed?
Thank you again!
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2 Replies
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why not just render as individual frames, I was running into a crashing problem with some green screen work and I ended up rendering the individual frames as png then putting them back together. That way if i had a crash I could go to the specific frame then re-render it.
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Thats really interesting. Someone told me that AE doesn’t even utilize more than 2 gigs of the system’s RAM at one time, no matter how much is installed . Are they delusional to think that?
On another note, my boss who uses Avid, can render a full uncompressed HD file on 3 gigs of RAM and it plugs away with no problem. Is AE just a little more sensitive in that respect? Was it not designed to be a work horse like Avid is?
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