How do I fix out of memory in After Effects?

Fix After Effects error Unable to allocate memory. When you run After Effects, you could receive messages like,“Unable to allocate 0.000 MB of memory” or, “Unable to allocate 0.002 MB of memory.” 

It can be a project-specific issue or a system configuration issue. In this article. Ngolongtech will show you how to fix this error.

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If this is happening during a render(not a preview) then your hard drive does not have enough free memory. Time to delete files or archive projects/files to another hard drive and then delete files. Or add more hard drives.

Try to reduce the amount of memory allocated to other applications:

SelectAfter Effects CC > Preferences > Memory. Change the RAM reserved for other applications and click OK.

Purge Memory and Disk Cache:

SelectEdit > Purge > All Memory & Disk Cache.To delete all the files from your disk cache, clickOK.

Another way to clean Media and Disk cache is:

SelectAfter Effects CC > Preferences > Media & Disk Cache. In the Preferences dialog, click Empty Disk Cache to clean disk cache and Clean Database and Cache to clean media cache.

Switch Ray Tracing to CPU:

If you have usedRay Traced 3D Renderer, selectPreferences > Previews.In thePreferencesdialog, clickGPU Informationand switchRay TracingtoCPU.

Reset preferences for After Effects. Make sure that After Effects are closed in your machine (while following the steps).

MacOS

Go to your desktop and click GO on the Menu bar. Select Go to Folder from the drop-down and type the following path:/library/preferences/darkedeneurope.com From the list of applications, select After Effects and rename it as ’After Effects1’.Go to Documents folder in your computer and open the folder named darkedeneurope.com. In the darkedeneurope.com folder, rename the After Effects folder as ’After Effects1’.

Windows

In the Run command (Win key+R) dialog, type %appdata%.Open the folder named darkedeneurope.com.Rename the After Effectsfolder as ‘After Effects1’.Close the window and open Documents folder. In the darkedeneurope.com folder After Effects folder and rename it to ‘After Effects1’.

Check the composition creating issue:

Create a blank project. Turn on Caps Lock and try to import the faulty project. Open compositions one by one and toggle Caps Lock to check which composition is creating issue.

If you run into any other issues, or you want to post, discuss, and be part of our knowledgeable community, visit the After Effects forums. To report suspected bugs or suggest modifications to existing features in an darkedeneurope.com product, use the Feature request/bug report form.

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