Rendering in AE CS3

[Gedas]

Hi everybody,

I have my laptop with 2GB ram and since I started using AE CS3 I always get this "insufficient RAM" error, and I can't even render my full video for RAM preview (when it renders new frames it deletes the old ones, and I can only render about 7 seconds from my 12 second video).. I went to my preferences, I added 2 more gigs of HDD for After Effects to use, but I still get that error.. The thing is that my clip isnt something special, few mask and few layers and in the older AE versions evrything would flow with out a problem.. Does CS3 eats that much of RAM or I dont know something???

[DJMartin]

Hm, I havn't used CS3 much myself, but have you tried to set OpenGl to adaptive resolution, in the comp window?

[gottony]

Try lowering the amount after effects can use. I had that problem on my Mac Pro. Kinda lame but I lowered both of the settings. It's set by default to 120%. Lower it to 80 or something. Do you have the multicore rendering checked? If you do, maybe uncheck that.

[Gedas]

I lowered my AE params to 80%, but I still get the same results.. What about the OpenGL params? I got my viewport set-up at OpenGL-Interactive (even if change it to other, I get the same result..) and in the preferences menu I have 200 MB for my texture memory and Adaptive Resolution limit is set to 1/4... anyone has more suggestions?

[gottony]

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...2245&sliceId=2

http://generalspecialist.com/2007/02...-effects-7.asp

If anything, contact Adobe or go back to 7. I thought it crashed when it rendered. In the viewport, I prefer adaptive resolution because openGL never buffers fast enough for me (don't think that matters anyways with the rendering). And I've never played with the texture memory. If anything enable the disk cache and set it to another folder or something. In 7 there was a secret option in the preferences and you could set it to clear your ram buffer every time it reached a certain limit...and not stop on errors. Made it force it to render.

[renatokg]

have the same problem..and the After crash all the time with much layers..it´s a pain...
With the version 7 I didn´t have the same problems as I have now

[DJMartin]

Is it true that AE CS3 is still on the beta stadium? If so, that will explain some of the crashing.

[bimdas]

I got the same problem when I enabled multithreading and didn't adjust the amount of ram after effects should use. It was fixed after setting the ram usage to 45%.