After Effects: Out Of Memory

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June 16, 2009
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Okay I'm trying to render out a minute long comp. I have it set to render to a 1280x720 .mov using the Photo-Jpeg codec. However, everytime I try to render it'll get part way through then say "After Effects: Out Of Memory". I've tried purging the cache and stuff. I have 8gb of free space on my HDD and 2gb of ddr2 memory. I could really use some help here as this is probably my best work to date.

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Palisades-Web

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This is a QuickTime issue. Just upgrade to the newest version of QuickTime.

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Palisades-Web

Participant

My solution was to render part of my timeline, then import it, then render the whole thing together. Part of my timeline had multiple layers of effects such as directional blur.

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Anonymous

2 GB of RAM is really, really the minimum.

Do you have a multi-core machine? Do you have Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously turned on in preferences? If so, you'd have to disable it. 2 GB is not enough for multiprocessing, regardless of the number of cores.

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Anonymous

I know I need a new computer, however, I'm broke, I got no job (not for the lack of trying), I'm only 16. So for now I'll have to make do with what I got. I've been using AE on this computer for about a year and a half now, with little to no problems.

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Anonymous

Mmh, yes, of course, these are just tips, not guaranteed cures. It should however be completely possible to render such comps on a 2 gig system. It may not be fast or fancy, but it should work. So something else must be causing this. What source footages do you use? What effects? Maybe a specific effect is just getting memory hungry (blurs and glows dilate the buffers considerably...)

Mylenium

For the most part this entirely done inside AE the only outside source is a still image, a couple of PNG sequences from 3d max, and some wav files. The only effects that are exstensivly used are Cartooner from the Boris Complete Continuum 6 and Vector Paint. The really strange thing is that I have no issues doing a RAM preview inside of AE, but if I try to export the comp it gets all "RAWRR: No memory left."

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