[Todd Kopriva]

You created a bezier path shape, not a parametric shape.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

The After Effects CC 2014 (13.0.2) update is now available.

Details are here:
https://adobe.ly/1ohwYua

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

Are you willing to upload the project to a file-sharing service so that I can grab it and try?

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

> At the bottom of the render queue, it says 5% (or whatever) of 32gb used.

That is not a very useful number, since it only represents RAM used by one part of After Effects (the foreground application). This does not include background rendering processes, external analysis processes, memory requested by third-party importers, etc.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

See this:
FAQ: Why is my output file huge, and why doesn’t it play back smoothly in a media player?

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

See this page, with the illustration that shows this labeled as negative layer time:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/selecting-arranging-layers.html#trim_extend_or_slip_edit_a_layer

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

I would prerender as many of the component pieces as possible, to diminish the overall burden on RAM when rendering the final composition.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

Detail-preserving Upscale effect in After Effects:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/detail-preserving-upscale-effect.html

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

Why are you running Adobe Media Encoder without any of the bug-fix updates?

Adobe Media Encoder CC (7.x) is currently up to version 7.2.2, and that’s not counting the Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014 (8.0) version.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

I just rendered a simple composition (one footage layer scaled up quite a lot) at those dimensions at 32bpc, on a computer with less RAM than yours, and it worked fine for me.

So, this just shows that it’s not the pixel dimensions and the color bit depth alone that are the problems for you, nor is it the amount of RAM in your computer.

There must be something else that is requiring a lot of memory for the problematic frame. Many effects require much more RAM to process than just the amount to hold the number of pixels within the frame. I recommend trying to render with various effects disabled until you find the culprit.

Also, 3D layers can require a lot of memory to process under some circumstances (e.g., when a camera is positioned very close to a layer).

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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