[Bill Walsh]

It has happened several times with CS3 and AE 2. I was confused by the directions so I didn’t correct it.

[Bill Walsh]

Mac OS 10.6.5
AE CS3
MAC BOOK PRO 2.8, 4GB,
DV footage on blue screen 29
DV Movie captured 29

I get the message:

“AE error: Unable to allocate space for a 852 x 476 image buffer.

You maybe experiencing fragmentation in the memory and cache performances dialog box, try decreasing the maximum ram cache size value and selecting the enable disk cache option increasing maximum memory usage or both.

[Bill Walsh]

Thanks guys for all your help and comments. I ordered the book. I have been working on FCP since 2. At this point I really don’t know what I don’t know, if that makes any sense. I hope that, in some way, explains my inquiry.

[Bill Walsh]

Okay besides trying to dissuade me, do you know of any on line tutorials? I appreciate the advice but I would like to get the certification.

[Bill Walsh]

No I wanted to work in an Apple store.

[Bill Walsh]

Okay now this is getting weirder. I went back to the files I had in After Effects and resaved them in QT7 as a stand alone movie file. When I brought them back into FCP, they exhibited the same audio problems eventhough they worked perfectly outside of FCP. Obviously there is something wrong with FCP but what?

[Bill Walsh]

Thanks for the observation.

I got rid of QT 10 and reinstalled QT 7 but to no avail. I’ve tried all different settings but the sound still lags behind the video.
My only other thought is that the scenes that were edited were imported in from After Effects and perhaps that saved with QT10 still has an effect on the FCP. Is there anyone out there who has an opinion about this? I really am stuck behind the 8 Ball on this one.

Thanks,

Bill

[Bill Walsh]

Thanks Dave, that is exactly what I did and it has worked well. Thank you for your suggestions!

Bill

[Bill Walsh]

Hi Dave,
Thanks for getting back to me. I have, I believe, tried every possible variable as far as the masks are concerned to no avail! To recap, I have a layer of a building which I masked out of the background. I then made a duplicate of it. I want to explode the building in the picture and then have the background remain. I now have two layers, the building and the background. I cannot get the masked building into the masked background. I know that I am obviously doing something wrong, but cannot put my finger on this. I have masked and done similar things before and never had a problem until now. At the end I want to put another masked image of the aftermath of the exploded building behind the background layer. Is there another way to do this or could you offer other suggestions to get it done?

Thank you so very much, I am stumped at what is probably a simple correction.

Bill

[Bill Walsh]

Thank you for your help.