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HELP!
I have recently purchased a new G5 mac pro and installed after effects onto it (aswell as extra RAM to make it more speedy) but now when i’m rendering in after effects I get a message that reads “Unable to create 720 x 576 Image Buffer”….which is aborting all my renders.
Now, I think this is something to do with my graphics card but i’m not entirely sure. Can someone help me out with this? If it’s not the graphics card then what could it be?….and if it is the graphics card, where can I get one that will be sufficient?
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https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=882154
Flush your cache every 1 frame.
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thanks for that!
i’ll try it as soon as i get home!!
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I’d strongly advise installing windows. It runs REALLY fast on those new woodcrest xeons.
Windows 64 or Windows Pro is pretty cheap too, no more than 200 bucks. I’m a Mac guy, but the speed increase is REDICULOUS on my macbook pro running windows xp pro vs stupid rosetta. -
hmm, i don’t think it’s the operating system. we use mac os x at work and i’ve never had a problem with after effects on it, the machine i have at home now is the same specs as those at work (except it has more RAM) and i’ve only ever noticed the problem on my home machine.
it has to be something to do with the graphics card or some other such problem as they are the only differences between the machines (that i can identify anyway!!) 🙂
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Paulie
My comment had nothing to do with OSX being the problem. I was commenting that there are substantial gains running Windows on your machine.
Just lookin out! Why network render if you don’t have to? Rosetta’s benchmarks are awful. They run at around 20-30% of what an old dual core g5 ran at. -
ok cool man,
thanks for the tip!! 🙂
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hello, i bought new mac pro intel xeon 3ghz like two days ago and extra rams.. and now i am getting the same “image buffer” problem.. i got 5gb of rams installed on this g5 but AE 7.0 see only 3GB of ram.. and i think after effects got stuck when there are so much memory ..
but how am i going to fix this ?
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join the club dude!
i was told to check the “secret preferences” and change the settings to flush the cache after every 1 frame, but using the technique described to access the secret preferences does not work.
i wish i could help, but i’m still stuck with the same unresolved problem.
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dude, last night i changed my settings to “purge every 1 frame during make movie.” and it is fine now ..
i’ve been working nonstop for 5 hours and nothing bad happened. .. i think its fine now .. -
[paulie] “…but using the technique described to access the secret preferences does not work.”
Did you hold down the shift key until the large preferences dialog appeared? Once you’re there, you look for “secret” within that dialog.
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