Low Memeory Warning

Hi @aubriedavaye,

Sorry to see you're experiencing this issue as well. Are you only experiencing it in the latest Beta build or also in the After Effects release build?

Thanks for reporting this issue and for any further information you can provide, 

- John, After Effects Engineering Team  

I'm havng the same problem and it's not letting me preview my work. 

Hi @hellopaul4,

I've merged your report with this thread since they appear to be the same issue. Would you please update to the Beta build 23.1.0.17 and let us know if you continue to experience this behavior?

Thanks for reporting this issue and for any further information you can provide, 

- John, After Effects Engineering Team  

@jenkmeister17177426 

Here are the effects of my report file:

Rendering plug-ins: Classic 3D

Effects used: 15

Effect: Brightness & Contrast

Effect: Drop Shadow

Effect: Fill Effect: Gaussian Blur

Effect: Gaussian Blur (Legacy)

Effect: Gradient Ramp

Effect: Hue/Saturation

Effect: Keylight (1.2)

Effect: Puppet

Effect: Transform

Effect: Turbulent Displace

Effect: Type Array

Effect: Vibrance

Effect: Wiggle - position

Effect: Wiggle - rotation

Here's the report file:

Report created: 2022-09-14 11:09:50 GMT-4 Project name: Felix.aep Source files collected: All Collected comps: Felix BC 1 falling pills_White Stars7 Felix BC 1-1 falling pills4 Felix ED 9 Stars8 Felix BC 1-2 Felix BC 2 Felix PE 1 Pill Circle 3 Felix PE 2 Pill CircleS 3 Stars2 Felix PE 3 Felix BC Story 1 Felix BC Story 1-1 Felix BC Story 1-2 cursor Felix BC Story 2 Felix PE Story 1 Podium1 podium2 Felix PE Story 2 Felix PE Story 3 Felix Acne 1 clapping people Felix Acne 3 cream Felix Acne 2 UGC Felix ED 1 Felix ED 2 bottle and pills Felix ED 3 Felix Hair 1 Felix Acne 1.1 Felix Acne Story 2 cream comp satisfied Felix Acne Story 3 cream comp 2 acne icons Felix Acne Story 1 cream comp 3 Felix ED Story 1 ED comp 1 Felix ED Story 2 Felix ED Story 3 Felix Hair Story 1 search bar Felix ED 4 Felix ED 5 Felix ED 5-1 Stars3 Felix ED 5-2 Felix ED 5-3 Felix ED 6 falling pills3 Stars5 Felix ED 7 Felix ED 6-1 falling pills2 Stars6 Felix Anxiety 1 Felix Anxiety 2 Felix Hair 2 Felix Hair 3 Felix Hair 4 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1/Podium1.png /Users/mia/Documents/Kittys.co/Felix/PE 1/Podium2.png /Users/mia/Documents/Kittys.co/Felix/PE 2/428_short2_my-destination_0030_preview.mp3 /Users/mia/Documents/Kittys.co/Felix/PE 3/344_short2_not-too-serious_0029_preview.mp3 /Users/mia/Documents/Kittys.co/Felix/PE 3/Asset 1@2x.png /Users/mia/Documents/Kittys.co/Felix/PE 3/shutterstock_1060915399.mov /Users/mia/Documents/Kittys.co/Jill Health/Concept11/346_short2_mavericks_0032.mp3 /Users/mia/Documents/Kittys.co/Thinkific/Concept7/cursor.png Number of missing items: 17 Rendering plug-ins: Classic 3D Effects used: 15 Effect: Brightness & Contrast Effect: Drop Shadow Effect: Fill Effect: Gaussian Blur Effect: Gaussian Blur (Legacy) Effect: Gradient Ramp Effect: Hue/Saturation Effect: Keylight (1.2) Effect: Puppet Effect: Transform Effect: Turbulent Displace Effect: Type Array Effect: Vibrance Effect: Wiggle - position Effect: Wiggle - rotation Layer: Text Layer External dependencies: Font family: “Matter”, Font style: “Bold”

Can you Generate a report (File -> Dependencies -> Collect Files -> Generate Report Only) and post it here so we can see what effects may be used in the project? We are investigating reports like this and trying to identify the cause of the issue. We think it may be a combination of effects that is causing a memory leak and AE thinks not much memory is being used when it actually is in use. 

I keep getting a "Low memory warning" when trying to preview a 4K (at 50% resolution) comp, even though AE is only using 34GB of my 128GB, and no other apps are using much RAM. AE renders only about 20 frames before giving up and reporting the error. I have 108GB allocated to AE in the prefs.

My comp uses some Advanced Lightning and Deep Glow - not sure if those are a bit buggy in terms of RAM allocation or something?

I've just quit and relaunched AE - I'll see if the problem persists. Ah - it's fixed now. I wonder if it'll coime back? I'm on AE beta 23.0.0x23.