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May 31, 2021
Question

Can’t render in 8k

  • May 31, 2021
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Usually, rendering footage or simple motion graphics at 8k (7680x4320) works just fine. No issues in terms of functionality.

Lately I've been working on a project involving Video Copilot's "VC Orb" plug in, with an 8k texture applied to it. I am able to seamlessly move around my timeline in "quarter" resolution but once I set it to "Full", it never updates my preview and After Effects inevitably loses all functionality, forcing me to restart the application. Also, when I set it to render as a ProRes 444 in AE or AME, it begins the render but no progress is shown on the render bar and the elapsed time stays at "0 seconds" (the loading bar showing how much of the video has been rendered doesn't do anything).

 

My project settings are set to GPU accelerated encoding so I'm sure it's utilizing my GPU which is a good thing.

 

My specs: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X CPU, RTX 3070 GPU, 64GB DDR4 Ram.

 

Is this an issue with the VC Orb plug in or maybe my hardware isn't powerful enough?

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
May 31, 2021

Try restricting the video memory of the graphics card and possibly enforce an older version of openGL to improve compatibility. Could well be that the OpenGL client in the VC plug-in is simply blackholing (trying to address a memory area that doesn't exist) or does not get a correct return command from the graphics driver.

 

Mylenium

Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
May 31, 2021

VC Orb itself uses GPU acceleration, so yes, you may simply be running out of resources on that front. Fiddling with your NVidia driver and its settings may of course improve results.

 

Mylenium

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default008r0hq59s88Author
Participant
May 31, 2021

In the NVidia control panel, I went to manage settings and for After Effects, made it so eachsetting utilizes my graphics card. Also changed my processor to my GPU in the PhysX settings.

 

As a test, I began the render last night and came back to it this morning and it had not moved at all. What's weird is AE doesn't freeze or crash during this, I can pause/stop the render and freely click around, it just doesnt even try to begin actually rendering the shot. very weird.

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