[Ed Mundy]

I played around with Windows’ memory settings and changed it so that the “windows paging file” would be written to a drive other than my system drive. This freed up 1.5 GB on my system drive and made me feel a little better about the rogue AE file that was eating up so much space.

But now, the AE file (still on drive C) has grown to nearly 3 GB, using virtually all the free space on my system drive.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Am I the only one seeing this “Photoshop Temp” file in relation to After Effects? Could it be that I have a buggy install, or perhaps, that the specific projects I am using are behaving oddly? The Temp file only gets really big with certain projects, with lots of large (Photoshop and Illustrator) assets, and strangely enough, the Temp file drops below 40 mb as soon as I start rendering a preview.

Thanks!

[Ed Mundy]

Thanks Dave!

Unfortunately, this is not the case. With “Enable Disk Cache” unchecked, AE is still creating a 1GB+ sized temp file on my C drive.

I am beginning to wonder if there might be some sort of Windows memory setting that is causing this to happen?

[Ed Mundy]

Thanks Adam.

I think that works as a workaround. The problem is that I have a lot of layers, and duplicating them all would be very time-consuming, especially if I go back and make changes later.

I’d also have to keyframe the blur for each layer to match the motion of the camera.

Another thing that seems to work is turning off motion blur for everything and applying the “CC Force Motion Blur” effect to an adjustment layer. This is currently my solution if nothing else works. However, this takes forever to render. I’d much rather figure out a real solution than a workaround, if one exists.

Does anyone know if this is an isolated problem, or if AE simply cannot apply motion blur to shadows?

[Ed Mundy]

Thanks Dave.

I’m fairly certain that is not what is happening, as the layer that the shadow is being cast upon is also blurring, but the shadow is not blurring at all.

To be sure, I just tried moving some of the layers closer and farther from the “floor” (onto which the shadows are being cast), from a few pixels away to several hundred pixels away. It makes no difference. The shadow simply doesn’t blur at all. It acts as if motion blur is not turned on.

Thanks,
Ed

[Ed Mundy]

Perfect. Thanks.

[Ed Mundy]

Perfect. Thanks.

[Ed Mundy]

Thanks. Found it.

[Ed Mundy]

Thanks. Found it.