AE crashing when rendering heavy composition

[stevem64080877]

Hello, I'm trying to render out a very heavy project which is causing either After Effects to crash or even for my laptop to BSOD after just a few frames. One of the compositions has about 90 videos laid out in a grid, so it's understandable that it's struggling. I've tried rendering through the render queue, through AME, as MP4, png sequence, jpeg sequence, AVI, MOV, all with the same dead end results. I've tried with GPU, or software only. I've upped the cache, I've cleared the chache, I've turned the cache off. I've fiddled with the "secret" settings...I'm all out of ideas. It's not necessarily an issue how long it takes to render, I understand I'm asking a lot of it. It seems to get through about 30-40 frames and then dies. The actual comp with all the videos is only on screen for the first 5 seconds and the last 5 seconds.

Is there any way to get this to work? Maybe to break it up into chunks or any sort of pre-rendering or something? I'm open to pretty much any suggestion now.

My laptop specs:

After Effects 18.1

CPU: I7

GPU: Geforce RTX 2070 8GB

RAM: 32GB

Dual SSD

Windows 10

[Mylenium]

Screenshots, crash info and so on. And not to point out the obvious: Have you tried to use proxies/ low-res versions of your videos? I consider it extremely unlikely that all your videos need to be full HD or even full SD all the time, much less anything fancy like 4k.

Mylenium

[stevem64080877]

Bit hard to take a screenshot of a bluescreen. In the end I settled for rendering out the video grid 10 at a time, planting that layer in then doing the next 10, slowly merging the layers together. I'm not familiar with proxies or how I would convert the videos to low-res without having to render them all out lower res then resizing them all, so I'm not sure that would be any quicker.

I think I'll just have to stick with this method for now. Thanks anyway.

[P.M.B]

Blue screen is a Windows crash, not AE.   How much memory do you have allocated for AE?