After Effects Could Not Allocate Sound Memory

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Nov 17, 2016 12:00 AM

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.' Find answers in this article, Unable to allocate memory. I cannot for the life of me figure this one out, Google has not shown me any answers. I am editing some masks of an AI file in After Effects and I will randomly get the following error: 'After Effects: Out of memory. (5059K requested) (23::40)' Forcing me to the Task Manager and end AE's process to close it all down and restart the program.

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A concussion is a mild form of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that affects how your brain functions. These effects can be short-term, lasting only a few hours or a couple of days, or cause long-term problems.

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Concussions occur as the result of a traumatic blow to the head that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth in a whiplash-like fashion. The sudden movement causes the brain to bounce and twist around inside the skull, stretching and damaging the delicate cells and structures inside your brain. This damage can cause physical and chemical changes in your brain to affect how it functions.

While medical professionals usually describe concussions as a mild form of TBI, even the mildest concussions can cause serious effects.

Concussions Are More Common Than You May Think

Concussions are becoming more common in children. The number of ED visits related to concussions and TBIs rose 57 percent in children from 2001 to 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Falls were the leading cause of TBIs in youngsters, accounting for about 40 percent of all traumatic brain injuries occurring in this age group.

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About 300,000 TBIs occur each year as the result of sports, according to a study published in the Journal of Athletic Training. Female athletes have higher rates of concussions than do their male counterparts, according to the American Physical Therapy Association. While concussions can occur during nearly any sport, they are most common in football, wrestling, ice hockey, basketball, field hockey and lacrosse.

Concussions can also happen as the result of car crashes, physical altercations, and accidental falls.

No matter how they happen, concussions injure your brain to some extent and they all require time to heal. Brain injury from even the mildest concussion can have short-term and long-term effects. The effects of a concussion can be subtle and change over time. Symptoms can last for days, weeks or longer.

Short Term Effects of a Concussion

After suffering a concussion, many people experience headache and confusion. Some people experience loss of memory and are unable to remember the event. The amnesia may or may not follow loss of consciousness.

In addition to loss of balance or dizziness, concussions may cause:

  • Headache
  • A temporary loss of consciousness
  • Feeling as if your brain is in a fog
  • Delayed response to questions
  • Dizziness
  • Ringing in your ears
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Fatigue
  • Blurred vision
  • Sensitivity to light and sound

Head trauma is very common in young children, especially in toddlers who are learning to walk, run and play. Short-term effects may be difficult to recognize in children because youngsters may not be able to describe how they feel. After a child hits his head, watch for non-verbal clues of a concussion, such as:

  • Appearing dazed
  • Listlessness
  • Tires out easily
  • Irritability, crankiness
  • Excessive crying
  • Loss of balance
  • Unsteady walking
  • Changes in eating or sleeping patterns

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Long Term Effects of a Concussion

Some symptoms of a concussion develop hours or days after the traumatic brain injury occurred. These symptoms include:

  • Trouble concentrating
  • Memory problems
  • Irritability and other personality changes
  • Sensitivity to light and noise
  • Sleep disturbances
  • Depression and other psychological problems
  • Disorders of smell and taste

Long-term effects of concussion are rare. In fact, the vast majority of people see any symptoms resolve within a few weeks. Only about 20 percent of people might suffer from post-concussion syndrome, where they continue to experience symptoms after six weeks. However, the more concussions you get, the more likely you are to suffer long term consequences, especially if you don’t give your brain enough time to heal between injuries.

“At some level, concussions result in a brain injury, so we’re certainly worried about the accumulative affects of concussions,” says Gregory Hawryluk, MD, neurosurgeon and concussion specialist at University of Utah Health. “We’re starting to learn that perhaps these seemingly minor blows to the head, when they’re accumulative, can lead to depression and behavior change. In fact, we think that some suicides may be linked to the brain damage that results from multiple concussions.”

When to See a Doctor for Concusssion

To reduce the risk of short-term problems associated with concussions from turning into long-term problems, see a doctor within one to two days of a head injury, even if you or your child does not require emergency treatment.

How Do I Allocate Memory

For more information on how to recover from a concussion, read “Take it Slow When Recovering From a Concussion.”

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.

You could try to use the steps listed below to resolve the issue.

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

    1. Select After Effects CC > Preferences > Memory.
    2. Change the RAM reserved for other applications and click OK.

  2. Purge Memory and Disk Cache:

    1. Select Edit > Purge > All Memory & Disk Cache.
    2. To delete all the files from your disk cache, click OK.

    Another way to clean Media and Disk cache is:

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

  3. If Mercury Transmit is enabled, disable it in Preferences > Video Preview.


  4. Switch Ray Tracing to CPU:

    1. If you have used Ray Traced 3D Renderer, select Preferences > Previews.
    2. In the Preferences dialog, click GPU Information and switch Ray Tracing to CPU.

  5. Remove any third-party plugins.

    MacOS location

    /library/application support/adobe/common/

    Windows location

    C:Program FilesAdobeCommonPlug-ins

    C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Media Encoder CC 2017Support Files (for external plugins)

  6. Create a pre-comp of the existing composition. To create a pre-comp, select all the tracks in the timeline and right click. From the drop-down menu, select Pre-compose.

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

    MacOS

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

    Windows

    1. In the Run command (Win key+R) dialog, type %appdata%.
    2. Open the folder named Adobe.
    3. Rename the After Effects folder as 'After Effects1'.
    4. Close the window and open Documents folder.
    5. In the Adobe folder After Effects folder and rename it to 'After Effects1'.

  8. Check the composition creating issue:

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

  9. Ensure that the Illustrator files are offline or try to convert the Illustrator files to Shape layers.

  10. If you have used multiple display cards, disable one of them.

  11. If you have applied any expressions, convert them to keyframes.

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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 Adobe product, use the Feature request/bug report form.