Image Buffer Error


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Image Buffer Error
by zozoferoce on Sep 14, 2007 at 6:56:31 pm

I was hoping somebody could shed some light on this error message...

"After Effects error: unable to allocate space for a 14400 x 486 image buffer.
You may be experiencing fragmentation. In the Memory & Cache Preferences dialog box, try decreasing the Maximum RAM Cache Size value and selecting the Enable Disk Cache option, increasing Maximum Memory Usage, or both. (7 :: 66)"

I get it during render on two layers that are using the same sets of effects. Im pretty sure it is one of the animation presets I have on the layers. What can I do about this?

I have tried the suggestions on the error message itself to no avail. I can post the entire render log file if anyone thinks it will help.

Thanks!!

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Re: Image Buffer Error
by moldyboot on Sep 14, 2007 at 7:08:41 pm

enabling disk cache has usually helped me when i get that error. except when i use ae7 on a mac pro, particuarly with cc effects (although the error message is a little different, just a image buffer error). to fix that i usually have to restart ae7.

you could also try edit>purge>all...

what version, platform and effects are you using?

Kevin Camp
Designer - KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

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Re: Image Buffer Error
by Dave LaRonde on Sep 14, 2007 at 7:34:36 pm

And there's another thing, too...

The vertical dimension may be 486 pixels tall, but geez, it's more than fourteen THOUSAND pixels across! That's a heckuva big layer!

Take Kevin's advice on the purging, and if you can do it, do prerenders on those honkin' big layers with the questionable effects.

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Re: Image Buffer Error
by zozoferoce on Sep 14, 2007 at 8:04:49 pm

Actually clearing the buffers and restarting did the trick. Im not sure what the 14,000 is referring to? I dont have a layer nearly that big in the comp unless it is the stretch in preset that is triggering that.

Thanks everybody.

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Re: Image Buffer Error
by Dave LaRonde on Sep 14, 2007 at 8:15:15 pm

[zozoferoce] "Im not sure what the 14,000 is referring to?"

It's referring to what you wrote in your initial post:

"I was hoping somebody could shed some light on this error message...

"After Effects error: unable to allocate space for a 14400 x 486 image buffer.""

I was off by a bit. I should actually have written fourteen thousand, four hundred. And now you know why I thought you had really big layers.

Glad to hear the problem's solved, though.

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Re: Image Buffer Error
by Todd Kopriva on Sep 15, 2007 at 5:55:35 pm

Jonas Hummerstrand has a good blog post about this error and how to avoid it

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Todd Kopriva

Adobe Systems Incorporated

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After Effects Help on the Web

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