Locate image buffer fault, but cannot find composition of this size?

[Charlot Van otterloo]

Ah yes, what is also weird, is that AFX rendered a lot a frames before without giving this message, that won’t render now anymore…

[Michael Szalapski]

I’m with Dave, we need a lot more info. But, on the chance that this works, have you rebooted recently?

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[Walter Soyka]

AE does not use a scanline renderer, so the comp sizes in your project are not the only things to check. In addition to Dave’s questions about your system, I’d add these about your project — do you have any large images? Any layers with big blurs, glows, or shadows?

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[Charlot Van otterloo]

The probleem appears to be magicly fixed… it rendering now, after trying for hours.
I also checked the psd footage, it is big and whit affects as glow and shadow, but not the size that After FX is talking about.
I am rendering on a MacPro,6 GB, AFX CS4, OSX, footage is al .psd layers.

Thanks for replying.

[Walter Soyka]

[Charlot van Otterloo] “The probleem appears to be magicly fixed… it rendering now, after trying for hours.”

If it fails again, I suggest rendering to an image sequence instead of a movie. You can resume a failed image sequence render right where it left off.

[Charlot van Otterloo] “I also checked the psd footage, it is big and whit affects as glow and shadow, but not the size that After FX is talking about.”

The dimensions add up — if you have a big PSD, effects that go beyond the borders of the image’s raster (like blurs, glows, and shadows) add to the size of the image buffer necessary to store the layer in memory.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Charlot Van otterloo]

Yep, already am rendering as TIFF sequence.
I will keep it in mind that I won’t use big psd files with glows etc next time. Thanks for the tip!