[Jeffrey]

Aanarav,

That article was great..great links too!…now I know I just bought 100 terrible disks 2 weeks ago.

[Jeffrey]

I have been dealing with this same problem over the past couple days. I am running AE 6.0 Standard with 512MB of RAM and a Pentium4 3.0Ghz. I happened accross a random thread that said if you uninstall QT 7 it might eliminate the problem. It worked for me, not sure why…I hope that the newer version of AE have resolved this….hope this helps you guys

-Jeff

[Jeffrey]

Try this page:

https://www.studiocutz.com/showalbums.php?catid=13

and scroll down to Noisefuel #8, it sounds like what you might be looking for

[Jeffrey]

One work around was to simply restart the computer…maybe it clears the cache or something…do a few advanced searches and you will find a few different threads on this issue. I think another one was to make some changes in the secret prefrences, but that didn’t do me any good.

Good luck!

[Jeffrey]

Yeah, I zoom in on one picture and then pull out wide so you can see a bunch of pics and then zoom in on another. It’s a pretty cool effect and I’ve done it before without any issues when I did using digital pics from a consumer camera, I think it has something to do with using pics from a professional camera. But even in the precomp I tried making a still frame of the whole thing and it still gave me the same error message, but I think I have found a few workarounds, but who the heck wants to use workarounds?lol

[Jeffrey]

OOPS! my mistake…the error message was actually something like “not enough memory to create image buffer..”

I found several similar threads regarding this issue, so I assumed it may have been a common problem, especially considering the low amount of RAM that I have. It happens when I try to render out section that has a camera panning and zooming over a ‘wall’ of pictures I have created. The pre comp size is 7000×7000, using around 100 pics from a professional photographer which was then brought into an NTSC D1 comp size where the camera was then used….

I will try again later and write out the exact error message if you want, but I am done working for tonight!lol.

PS
here is one of the threads of someone who had a similar problem, if your’e interested:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=729110&archive=T

[Jeffrey]

which do you think would be more responsible in eliminating image buffer underrun errors?

[Jeffrey]

quad processing!?…someday baby, someday….:)

[Jeffrey]

Thanks for all the input guys. Let me see if I can respond here quickly:

-I did a little research and am definetly going to up the RAM soon, also I will surely start pre-rendering because I intend to these type of videos very frequently (I never used pre-render before because I never did anything longer in AE than one minute). For future reference how do you think a G5 would handle it?

-The picture sizes had to be scaled down to about 50% to see the entire picture, which actually helped in acheiving the effect I wanted anyway, so no real room to budge there.

-Yes, I did use quite a bit of 3d camera and lights to acheive certain effects in certain parts.

-Chris,I don’t have a website or anything to upload it to, to show you what I am doing (not sure if there’s another way to do that). But I can tell you for example, the biggest thing I did in the video is took four comps, made them 3d and then moved them to make the shape of cube so looking from the top view it would look like this: |_|..(just imagine the fourth wall:)). Anyway, on each of those walls I plastered 120 pictures, so visually what you end up seeing is a single picture covering the whole screen and then when the song kicks into an upbeat tempo I pull the camera way back so you see this wall of pictures, then zooms back in on a different picture that now fills the screen and so on…whew, I guess that was a lot to render considering that was just one part of the video. But yes, it looked amazing and blew everyone who saw it.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah I knew it had to be simple. I actually found one other way to do it without precomposing just in case anyone wants to know. I turned off the adjustment layer switch for the layer I wanted to affect (like you said) and made the adjustment layer a Track Matte and made the layers I wanted to affect respond to it.

Thanks for the info.