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Image buffer error!
So after having so many image buffer crashes, I have broken up my psd files and cropped them down to smaller resolution.
I would break up a 4000×5000 image into four diff psd files. I would place them into a 4000×5000 precomp and rebuild the four image. Than import that precomp into a 2k comp. This worked well.My second comp, I have done the same thing. I have hit a snag here though. My renders keep failing on the image buffer of 4000×5000. I have no images that size in my project, but my preComp is that size. Would AE be choking on a PreComp?
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yes. The precomp size is calculated in the image buffer.
Curious – are you precomping this? if you just connect these images together in the main comp, that will solve your problem.
Here’s a hint – set up all of the images so they look like one seamless image.
Create a Null at the center.
Make them all the child of the null.
Lock the layers.
Make them shy, and use the shy button to hide them.
Now you can control everything through the null, and the images will behave as one image, with no risk of messing up all the peices.
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Aharon,
I really do appreciate your advice. I have been beating myself over this. I don’t usually work in this resolution so my standard work flow has failed me. Thanks for your work around suggestion.
I usually precomp most of my work so my master comp is manageable.So I have built this 5K precomp, included with a matte painting broken into smaller child images and parented, like you have described(but I still have a 5k precomp…dooh).
In this primary 5K precomp I have created an entire world with animated layers, water, boats, lights, people. Lots of elements, you get the idea.
That precomp goes into a 2k master comp that we boom the camera from top to bottom.
To take that entire 5k world out of its precomp, into the 2K Master comp will be my next drastic step. -
At this point, I honestly have no answer for you. If your system is balking, you cannot have a comp at that resolution.
I just don;t understand why you need a comp that big. Perhaps after making the comp, you can make it a more managebale size and the in the main comp, collaps transformations. That *might* do it.
No idea about the image seams. What format are you using (Tiff, TGA, PNG)?
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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Aharon,
So I have been able to dump the cache every frame and I have gotten a couple boxes to render for me on the farm. So it isn’t the best work flow but it is working. Again thanks, I am good to go.The large precomps initially didn’t pose a problem. But they have gotten heavier.
The only justification I can come up with on why so big. A 2k final comp that has a matte painting precomposed tracking from left to right or top to bottom needs to be around that size, but yes I should have cropped it into smaller comps and stayed away from such a large precomp, got it.. Lesson learned.My process for cropping it is this. I take the PSD file into PS. Set guides, snap the Crop to the guides, save each cropped image as a new psd file, not tiffs or Targas, import that new layer and try to piece them back together by eye. Parent them to a null which is parented to a master null.
How would you go about piecing them back together with more precision? I just line up the frame of the layer to the outside of the edge of the comp. -
Choose: View > Show Rulers
Then: pull out guides in the same way you did it in photoshop
Then: View > Snap > to Guides.
Then start snapping them together..
However, because of the missing pixels on the edges, it might be worth it to leave a little extra stuff in the crop, and the use the layer transfer/blending mode called difference to line thing up. I actually covered this in my tutorial called Blending mode Tips #1 – click on my head and scroll down a bit.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com—————————————-
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