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_Maik
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February 27, 2025

After Effects (Beta): Unable to allocate 132.563 MB of memory. Either decrease the memory requiremen

  • February 27, 2025
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After Effects (Beta): Unable to allocate 132.563 MB of memory. Either decrease the memory requirements for the rendering of this frame, or install more RAM. (12803 / Unidentified caller.). For more information, see www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_mem

 

I'm testing the "beta" of AE and wanted to report this issue.. (which even happens in the official version 25.1) but here it's more constant because as you can see I'm rendering my video and I get this error, and they are just aligned clips without any effect (well, just one, the "twixtor pro" effect) which doesn't take up much space! but still it tells me that I'm out of memory idk.. I have 24 gb of ram of which I have assigned 16 to after effects (leaving 8gb so that windows 11 runs correctly) also even if I add the maximum it still shows up "even though it's a super light project" I'm also noticing that pressing the "space" key to preview has a delay of about 3-5 seconds " it seems that it lacks optimization in the render, I don't know, but I'll show you below how I have my Ae configured and my pc components


i5 9400f
gtx 1660 (6gb)
24gb of ram
ssd 256

here are some screenshots of my after effects settings

Simple proyect i just use clips 

"the disk cache is completely empty"

 

 

14 replies

Jenkmeister
February 27, 2025

It could be the twixtor effect is holding on to memory and after 77 frames of that, it has exhausted the memory your system has available to it. It's very hard to know exactly what is going on. Are you able to share the project? Or turn off twixtor and see if that helps? 

_Maik
_MaikAuthor
Known Participant
February 27, 2025

and another thing that stands out is the delay that is generated when wanting to preview... 3-5 seconds...

 

_Maik
_MaikAuthor
Known Participant
February 27, 2025

It does not have any effect.. they are only clips with a single "twixtor pro" effect to make the clips in slow motion.. and they all have that.. so if that effect had been, it should have happened at the beginning and not in frame 77.. because they all have the same effect.

Jenkmeister
February 27, 2025

I can't tell if the memory requested is 132MB or if the . is a localized version of a , and so AE is actually trying to allocate 132GBs of RAM for a single frame. My suggestion would be look around frame 77 of your composition and see if there are any effects that might be creating really large frame sizes. If you have any effects on that frame, try turning them off to see if that helps.