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render/memory problems on intel mac
i wonder if this is a rosetta/afx difficulty? i’m trying to get a movie rendered that has cam moves, no lights, on big illustator files. at irregular places in the render (and sometime working on the timeline) i get the “could not create 4185×3352 (7:39) error message. the dual 2.66 intel mac has 4 gigs of memory of which AFX7.1 sees 3 gigs on startup. i’ve set the secrets ram purge to 4 frames and raised the percentage of memory used to %70 (default is %60) but it will still fail renders at different places. my question for an expert is, is there any reason not to set the ram % even higher, maybe 90 or even 100% since the mac itself still has 1 gig of unaddressed memory out of the 4 total. i’m pretty sure the illustrator files are not corrupt because sometimes, after fresh restart of AFX it will make it through the most problematic section. any suggestions or others with this kind of problem? i’m pulling hair, aaargh…
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Is your ai file 4185×3352 to begin with and then your moving on it (particualy a zoom)?
TonyTony
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enable the disk cache too in the memory and cache settings and make sure no other rosetta app is open. you might also want to get in the habbit of purge>all prior to rendering. and if you’re not rendering any effects that need data from previous frames, you can even set the secret purge every xx frames to 1.
when those options don’tt work, i’ve broken the comp into several pre-comps, pre-rendered those with import and replace usage, and then rendered the final comp.
Kevin Camp
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thanks again dave. you’re right, totally counerintuitive but i’m hopeful. got forced into the intel g5 by a logic board that went out on my once trusty dual g4. with a deadline this is driving me friggin’ nuts. so lame, but who is to blame, apple? adobe? sheesh.
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[ronaldo] “got forced into the intel g5 by a”
Well… there’s your problem right there!
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