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  • Unbalanced Layer Check Out Memory Inefficiency

    Posted by Steve Duddleston on November 13, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    “AFTER EFFECTS WARNING: memory ineffiency due to 1 unbalanced layer checkouts”

    I’ve been getting this pop-up error message upon closing AE3. My utility maintenance
    software says the memory boards are fine. I’m running 8.5GB of RAM on a G5 Quad (PPC)
    OSX 10.4.10. I’m also getting a lot of “unable to start audio hardware” error messages while
    doing RAM previews. Suggestions?

    Steve Duddleston replied 18 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Steve Duddleston

    November 13, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    Sorry, my bad. I meant to say AE CS3.

  • Steve Duddleston

    November 14, 2007 at 9:44 am

    Thanks Dave, but OSX 10.4.10 is not Leopard.

  • Joe Poisson

    November 29, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    Don’t know if it helps but I’m running AE CS2 on a WinXP Pro system with an open GL card and I’ve seen it too.

    I was using DigiEffect DE Fire (which I feel is kind of buggy to begin with, darn fractals) and got the message on shutdown.

    Maybe it’s the Open GL? Some web hunting came up pretty short of an answer and Adobe’s site doesn’t have anything about it that I could find.

    One answer I found said that it was a program issue, but I figure that won’t stop the eventual round of finger pointing.

    I’ve had startup problems with Adobe softs before, more often than not it’s a preference file glitch, does AE have one? If so, trash it (better yet, rename it just in case) and it’ll make a new one.

    Good luck!

  • Steve Duddleston

    November 29, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    Thanks Joe for the info, I can’t find any help either on the web or at Adobe.
    I don’t use Open GL within AE, but I never had this issue until I made the AE CS3 upgrade.
    I’ll try trashing the preference file and see if it makes a difference.

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