Secret preferences information?

[Jimmy Brunger]

Sorry guys, how do you access these secret prefs?

Funny – I’ve never had a render crash until today!…not a massively complex 10 sec comp. There is some motion blur on 2 layers and time remapping with frame blending (Frame Mix) on one layer. Rest of layers have mainly positional/opacity KFs applied and not much else…

When I render with MOblur on and FB set to best quality the render kept crashing halfway through saying “After Effects does not have enough memory”

I ended up having to switch FB to draft quality to get it to finish the render. Obviously I don’t want to have to do this every time. Anyone know what could be the prob?

I have 2GB RAM and a single core Pent4 3GHz and neither seemed to max out on render, so whay the apparent lack of memory?

Thanks for any advice.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

UPDATE: Just tried again with FB set to ‘best’ – still not working.

Exact error message is: –

after effects: out of memory. (3240K requested)
(23 :: 40)

HELP!?

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[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Take alook at this tutorial:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/workflow_2/index.html

I walk you through setting up the secret/SHecret preferences.

Frankly, I always have this on. AE is notorious for NOT crashing when this is a problem, and instead, wierd stuff starts to happen – such as Text becoming corrupted. I can only assume that this will become an even bigger problem in AE 8 when more and more of AE’s source files are being generated in AE instead of having to use outside elements (Such as images of shapes from Illustrator, or gradients).

I keep it set to between 15-30 frames for a purge. Always. Just my thing.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Great stuff, Thanks Aharon – I set it to purge 15 frames and it worked a treat! I didn’t even slow down the render. I was worried it would clear RAM cache for previews aswell, but seems to be only renders. So should I just leave that set to 15frames now, until such I time I have a problem again?

Should be getting a dual-core, 4GB ram and Nucleo Pro next week, so that will make me a very happy man and should minimise this kind of thing. New toys always perk me up.

Thanks for the info.

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Win XP Pro SP2 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Sony BVM-20G1E / DVS SDI Clipstation / 110GB boot/80GB media/600GB RAID-0