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alant64956177
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October 3, 2022

After Effects consuming to much Ram

  • October 3, 2022
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I'm using AE latest beta, alongside with the latest official realease. In both I'm getting warning signs that says my machine is out of ram, when it actually has plenty (in sometimes it seems AE doens't free that RAM).

I'm running AE 23.1.0.27 for the beta version and AE 22.6. It seems this bug is present in the latest release, because I never had this kind of issue before (actually I'm not able to make ram preview without getter the warning sign).

My machine is a Macbook pro 16 M1 MAX with 32gb of ram, running Monterey 12.6.

I'm attaching a screenshot where you can see, that even AE only consuming 7gb of ram, is still printing the RAM message.

 

I need help please

 

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J
Community Manager
jenkmeister17177426Community Manager
October 19, 2022

We know the Red Giant VFX Suite along with the Magic Bullet Suite has some memory issues, though the fixes for that were rolled out on Monday morning, so upgrade those if you're using them. If you find yourself running into this again, you can do a File -> Dependencies -> Collect Files... -> Generate Report only and that'll list all your effects. Post that list back here and we'll be happy to take a look and see if we can reproduce the issues and report them.

alant64956177
alant64956177Author
Known Participant
October 19, 2022

Hi John, I'm running AE 2023 since it was released, it seems to work better. I still see the ram message from time to time. 

There's a way to know which plugins are causing leaking memory?

 

thanks

JohnColombo17100380
Community Manager
JohnColombo17100380Community Manager
Community Manager
October 19, 2022

Hi @alant64956177,

This issue has been fixed in After Effects 2023 (version 23.0). If you do continue to experience this issue with overuse of RAM, please update any third-party plug-ins you may have installed. We're aware of several popular plug-ins that have released recent updates due to plug-ins that were leaking memory.

 

Thanks for reporting this issue,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

JohnColombo17100380
Community Manager
JohnColombo17100380Community Manager
Community Manager
October 13, 2022

Thanks for reporting this issue, @alant64956177. As Sean mentioned below, this issue should be fixed in the latest Beta builds (23.10.27 or later) with the exception of some third-party effects that are currently leaking memory. Please give After Effects (Beta) a try and let us know if you continue to experience this issue. If you do experience it in the Beta builds, please let us know what effects are being used in your project.

 

We will update this thread when the fix becomes available in a release build of After Effects.

 

Thanks again,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team  

J
Community Manager
jenkmeister17177426Community Manager
October 6, 2022

This is an issue in 22.6, but it should be fixed in 23.1x27 beta unless you're using third-party effects that are leaking memory. Are you able to share your project for us to look at?

J
Community Manager
jenkmeister17177426Community Manager
October 6, 2022

Please also make sure you don't have the Reduce Cache Size when memory is low setting enabled. We are in the process of removing that as it is also causing some of these memory issues.

alant64956177
alant64956177Author
Known Participant
October 6, 2022

Hi Jenkmeister, thansk for the help.

I will check it. Is hard to send the project because has many files linked. About the third-party effects used in the project, I'm using Trapcode looks and posterize time, but when I started to see this issues I removed them (having the same result).

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