memory issue

[Steve Roberts]

Search the COW posts for “secret”.

[Michael Hancock]

Hold down shift and open your General Preferences menu. Click through the menus until you get to the “Schecret” menu. Set AE to purge every x number of frames. With such a huge render, you might want to make this a small number, say every 3 or 5 frames. It seems to increase render times a bit, but at least it renders.

Mike.

[Mike Clasby]

Edit > Preferences and Hold Down the Shift key when you press General, then you have a Secret option from the dropdown menu.

Here’s a response from RoRK when Aharon asked a similar question many moons ago.

Name: RoRK
Date: Dec 15, 2004 at 9:44:43 am
Subject: Re: Shecret or Secret Options – can you explain

A) [Aharon Rabinowitz] “Disable Layer Cache ”

This tells AE not to retain layer information during it’s renders. What information pertaining to the layer is it referring to??? I don’t know!

B) [Aharon Rabinowitz] “- Purge Every X frames during Make Movie”

This tells AE how often to purge its memory. The smallest allowable number is 1 – which means AE will purge its memory at each frame. The smaller the number the less likely it will be that AE will face a memory issue. The trade-off is that at smaller values, your renders will be slower, as occasionally, stuff will be purged that AE still requires. Under such circumstances AE will have to recalculate that information again – purging also takes time.

It is best to start with a number such as 15 and then work your way down only if you still have memory issues. And work your way down in increments of 3 or 5.

C) [Aharon Rabinowitz] “Ignore Sequence Rendering Errors (DANGER)”

Only pertinent if you render a sequence of images instead of a movie. Haven’t had much to do with this so I can’t say much here other than to avoid it . duh?

As to what to do I would suggest working on (B) above and only work on (A) should you really have to.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg

[Steve Roberts]

Don’t forget to keep holding down Shift until you get to the Prefs dialog box.

[Tim Monaghan]

This worked.. thanks everyone!