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November 9, 2022
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Keylight out of memory issue

  • November 9, 2022
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I have a green screen heavy project and can't seem to get things working properly. I keep running into a "Keylight out of memory" issue.  I have a LOT of RAM.  I have tried copying the project locally rather  than doing it over the network.  I have also retarted but still happens consistently.  I searched the forums here but the search results dates back to 2012. If I try and render the project using Media Encoder it does render but about 90% of the frames are blank.

 

Anyone else find this and have a workaround or solution?

 

Thanks

 

OS: Win 10

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900 x
RAM: 128 GB

Correct answer Z3nb0y

Thanks for the help and request for more info.  Sadly, I don't think I would know what was relevant to share in terms of project, effect settings and footage to be useful for trouble shooting.  Having said that, I think I figured it out. Seems the problem was upstream as all my footage was only showing as green in other comps within the same project as well as other unrelated projects.  A quick search revealed I had some settings in the preferences and some disk caches that was causing the issue.  Once I applied those settings and purged the disk cache, the problem went away everywhere.  I have nothing more to kerplang about 😜

 

Thanks for the response.

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Mylenium
Legend
November 9, 2022

Without any info about your project, the footage being worked on, the effect settings and so on we can't tell you much. Keylight simply is a memory hog and always has been, but those errors rarely ever have anything to do with being low on memory. Either your footage has soem oddities or you created a set of settings that causes the effect to wreck its brains and go *kerplang*.

 

Mylenium

Z3nb0yAuthorCorrect answer
Participant
November 10, 2022

Thanks for the help and request for more info.  Sadly, I don't think I would know what was relevant to share in terms of project, effect settings and footage to be useful for trouble shooting.  Having said that, I think I figured it out. Seems the problem was upstream as all my footage was only showing as green in other comps within the same project as well as other unrelated projects.  A quick search revealed I had some settings in the preferences and some disk caches that was causing the issue.  Once I applied those settings and purged the disk cache, the problem went away everywhere.  I have nothing more to kerplang about 😜

 

Thanks for the response.

Participant
December 14, 2022

can you help me? i have the exact same problem, i use a lot of green screen footage  i already clean the cache memory  and  made a  purge and disk cache and nothing is working. please, can you tell me what did you do in your settings to solve this?

my specs

 

i7 12700f

32gb ddr5

gtx 3070

 

Z3nb0yAuthor
Participant
November 9, 2022

Sorry forgot to add that this is with After Effects v23.0.0 build 59.