[Rowan Wernham]

The go pro compresses footage so it’s high quality but very small – the way the compression is configured it doesn’t play back well on anything at all really..

It seems lame but you basically need to convert your footage into another codec to edit.

I use mpegstreamclip to pull bits out of my go pro footage and convert them to prores – depending on your edit setup / needs you might use something else

This works for me, although of course since you are going to a lossless format the files get much bigger

[Rowan Wernham]

I think I may have found the answer right after I posted this..

https://generalspecialist.com/2006/11/avoiding-after-effects-error-could-not.asp

Managed to render one frame out by setting my maximum RAM cache right down to 10%

Another frame I tested hit the buffer again but I think maybe I could get around this by using the secret pref which enables you to automatically purge after every frame!

seems a bit sucky and may end up buying Nucleo Pro which apparently will also get around this issue?

[Rowan Wernham]

Hi – did you ever get this problem fixed?

I am working on a 2K project with some very large BG’s (up to 8000px X 1600px)

It renders fine at half quality or lower but hits the “Unable to allocate … image buffer” error on full quality.

I have tried lowering my memory percentages even down to around 30% and setting a 5GB disc cache and purging all caches etc.

I am using AE8.0.0.2 (CS3, still shy of any updates..) on a quadcore intel mac pro with 10GB of ram.

I can live with not being able to render at full quality for now and the deadline is months off, but I will eventually need to output this at full res!

Cheers!

Rowan