Would emptying Disk cache while exporting with Media encoder speed process?

[Bluecloud7]

Hi,

At the moment, Media encoder can only export by bits, which I then have to piece together in Premier. Not ideal but at least it will not crash or tell me its out of memory. A lot of my exports have failed due to lack of memory I have about 25GB of Ram reserved for Adobe, which is not great but  I am assuming not bad either so why am I having this problem?

I found that emptying disk cache in After effects while exporting with Media encoder may help a bit, or is it a waste of time? I don't have an extra SSD car on this laptop, would using an external hard drive to add my disk cash work better? (was advised to separate the project and the cache files in separte drives). I just find it frustrating that I can't export my projects properly and having to split them up! Any advise welcome! Thanks in advance.

[P.M.B]

ram has nothing to do with rendering.  And what good is peicing it together in premier?  You still have to get it out of Premier by rendering.  Also putting into premier does not require rendering it in pieces first so I can't understand why you

would be doing that or how it solves your problem.   All in all it's difficult to make sense of your post. 

Most people have no problem which means your issue is likely related to your hardware or workflow and you've offered no information about the specifics of your projects contents, render settings, etc.   And you've offered no information about your hardware other than you having 25 gigs of ram (which is irrelevent) and that you have no external hard drive.  If you want suggestions you have privide relevent details.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/faq-what-information-should-i-provide-when-asking-a-que...

[Bluecloud7]

Hi, ok sure let me try to give you as much info:

Its After Effects that I am using, and the only way I can export a long project (5 minutes) is by adding it to Media encoder, and by exporting "Smaller clips" around 1 or 2 mins max, then at least I can get it out of After Effects and then piece it together in Premier. 

I do this because I am having issues exporting longer clips. I think I lack memory and my export "fails". Could be an othe issue so here are my project settings:

Its an HD comp, mostly 2 D, no plugins or 3D effects, using AE V 17.7, windows 10, only one drive, Mercury Acceleration on, even when I preview is super low res , it doesn't play twell at all. I totally understand that we can't play real time in AE but I cant preview properly to just see how the animation plays out, and mort of the time I get "out of memory" notification. Thats why I assumed RAM had something to do it with. Please let me know if there is something else you want me to provide? 

[P.M.B]

Previewing inside after effects DOES have to do with RAM.  Rendering in Media Encoder does not.  You're talking about two different things.

Is the memeory warning an AFter Effects warning or a Windows system warning?

[Rick Gerard]

If I am going to use the Adobe Media Encoder I always open it before I am finished with the comp. This saves a lot of time. When it is just sitting open in the background your system resources are not taxed enough to make any difference at all in your workflow. 

I only use the AME for comps that render fairly quickly. If render times are expected to go over a few seconds a frame I always use a background rendering tool. My Favorite is RenderGarden. I have 5 and RG is the most efficient. I can render a production master and an MP4 for the client and keep working in AE with no significant performance hit, and my render times are cut by more than 50% on my MacBook Pro and about 80% on my iMac Pro. You also retain full GPU rendering support with RG.

[Bluecloud7]

Thank you Rick, I will certainly look into Render garden!

[Mylenium]

You are dancing around the issue. You have written lengthy posts, but not given any solid technical info about your computer, the project contents, render settings and for that matter what exact warnings you get at which point. Floating wrong assumptions about flushing disk caches, which as @P.M.B said already has nothing to do with final rendering is not in any way useful. And on a more generic level the old rule applies: Out of memory errors rarely have anything to do with actually running out of memory. They are typically just leaks in drivers, CoDecs and DLLs, which translates to that you may need to do a littlke system maintenance rather than trying to lokk for a solution from within the Adobe apps. Begin by updating your graphics driver and checking hardware acceleration options in AE and AME...

Mylenium

[OreyBorey5FEE]

Sorry man but you're wrong lol I actually have the same exact problem as well. The only way I can get a project out completely is piecing it in Premiere Pro. I get what you're trying to say but no.