Roei and Dan, you’re geniuses! This is something I couldn’t wrap my head around for years. I always did wat you describe only soon to realise that the loop was broken. I always ended up by just duplicating the layer a few times, but your timeline becomes a mess this way. Now I finally can loop the loop without blank or skipping frames!

The fine people at MekaJiki RenderGarden pointed out that the project settings on my iMac had GPU Acceleration enabled where my Macbook creates every new project with Software Rendering enabled. So switching to software rendering did the trick. Hyper-threaded network rendering at last!

You’re right, they’re not exactly identical, but in terms of CPU/GPU heaviness they are. The projects are just for testing purposes. I’m trying to run RenderGarden on both my machines and my Macbook gives this GPU error every time. At first I thought it was due to the fairly complex project I’m working on, so I ended up with these simple test…

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Both projects are in 8-bit and both machines are running the latest version of AE (17.1.4).

To indicate the problem I’ve uploaded the two projects here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bkdca6l209ck0bv/AAA3zH0C18O9_qbFvVFMuiTSa?dl=0

Both are identical, but one is made on my iMac and the other one on my Macbook. The Macbook gives the GPU error when opening…

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I’ve made a composition of 2000×2000 with one solid with fractal noise and three glow effects applied. I’m using a i9 machine with 8Gb of VRAM. When I open this project on my Macbook (i7 with 512Mb of VRAM) and set the preview quality to “Full” I get an GPU error message:

“After Effects has encountered a failure related to GPU-enabled effects on…

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Hi Filip,

Thanks for taking a look at the images! So that’s where all the information is going to. The whole reflection map is stored for some frames. Very weird that After Effects decides to do this at random.

I’m using the CC Blobbylize effect here. This effect uses a bump layer to add depth and also uses this layer as a trackmatte. Maybe this…

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Because the file sizes were too big I’ve switched to 8bpc. At this color depth the different file sizes still occurs, but just on a smaller scale.

I have uploaded two examples here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qb6gnzip4x5hmkm/AADaLsvX-cFSTGxFlbXnDcvya?dl=0

To rule out any difference between the content I’ve distilled two consecutive frames of the…

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Hello everyone,

I am currently rendering some compositions and I noticed how the PNG sizes vary extremely between these comps. All the compositions are very much a like. They are 6000×6000@16bpc and have an equal amount of transparent areas. Actually they are just huge golden squares with a slight variety in the border thickness.

With one…

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