My Adobe After Effects uses 100% of my memory after rendering 1 video

Report · Mar 17, 2020

I play this game, I have videos that I import and as soon as I click on one of them and play the video my Memory ZOOMS up to 100% to the point where it either crashes or I don't have enough memory so it asks for more.. if someone can help me it would actually mean alot.. my pc runs every game really well its a good running pc, brand new too be honest and I have 16gb of ram

Report · Mar 17, 2020

Playing games and working with AE are two seperated things. It doesn't matter if you have a good gaming PC, it can still lag on AE.

Go to the preferences if AE and tell us how much RAM is reserved for it.

AE will take all you RAM and still asks for more. Keep at least 4GB free for OS to prevent crashes.

*Martin

Report · Mar 17, 2020

Well, as Martin already said, gaming PCs don't necessarily make for great graphics workstations. That aside, the behavior you are seeing is most definitely not normal and indicates a driver misconfiguration or memory leak. That being the case, you may need to spend some time digging into configurations and possibly update some of the drivers. Also things like overclocking or messing with your graphics card's virtual buffers and memory don't go down well with AE and other professional desktop apps. The keyword of the day is to keep things "conservative" and stable rather than trying to squeeze out every last bit of performance with experimental switches, Registry hacks, optimization tools and what have you. Also, if you are recording/ streaming your games you may want to check your system's CoDecs and the associated capture tools. Some of that stuff is not compatible with AE since it usurps the GPU buffers and messes with hardware acceleration stuff. You may need to turn it off or even uninstall some of that.

Mylenium

Report · Mar 17, 2020

I just realized I tottaly typed it wrong at the start, I meant that im recording clips and Im trying to import them and they do import its just that as soon as I start to watch the clip like play it after importing it my memory will shoot up all the way too 100%, Here is a picture: of my ram and I will leave the video of my memory going up:

- this is me only inserting one video and rendering it and its only like 13 seconds in and my memory zooms up to 100%

Report · Mar 17, 2020

Here are my specs:

Video Card: radeon rx 570 series

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.60 Hz

Installed Ram : 16 GB

64 Bit Operating System

Report · Mar 18, 2020

AE does render each frame into RAM, a high RAM usage is normal.

Also, it cannot playback on the fly, but have to pre-render. This rendering takes time and you can only pre-render as many frames as they fit into your RAM.

AE is simple not an editing software, therefore we have those limitations.

If you want to edit your video, use Premiere Pro. If you want to apply effects, only import those certain parts into AE. The shorts your compositions are, the better you will be able to work with this software.

*Martin

Report · Jun 19, 2021

I have the same only 20 gigs of ram. As little as importing a 2 min clip is all it can take. anything after that like clicking the effects menu will take it too 100% of memory. Ive been using After Effects 2018 for a couple years and all was well, as a matter of fact it worked rather fast on my machine. Now its almost impossible to edit anything and if I do take 4 hours for a small edit I havnt a clue how to render it without the good ,MOV codec so I end up with a 10 gig file that looks washed out. I guess my only choice is to downgrade back to the older version without the new content aware fill and new sensi masking thing. Any Help?

thanks, Richie