After Effects: Out Of Memory

Okay I'm trying to render out a minute long comp. I have it set to render to a 1280x720 .mov using the Photo-Jpeg codec. However, everytime I try to render it'll get part way through then say "After Effects: Out Of Memory". I've tried purging the cache and stuff. I have 8gb of free space on my HDD and 2gb of ddr2 memory. I could really use some help here as this is probably my best work to date.

Woodsman819 wrote:
Anyways do you have any other suggestions on how I could get this to work?
Don't use Photo-JPEG or any other compressed Codecs! From inside AE that is. What happens here is that the additional math transformations (discrete cosinus transforms [DCT] and other geek stuff) required to let the compression do its thing also take up valuable memory and it may actually be that part that prevents you from creating your movies. At best, use "simple" RLE compression as employed by the Animation CoDec (which, depending on the image content may even be more efficient than Photo-JPEG). If, for some reason you need specific CoDecs, then do the compression externally using Quicktime Pro or, should you require H.264 and other MPEG derivates, with ffmpeg or similar tools. AVIs can easily be created with VirtualDub and it even supports some QT formats, so there are some free options as well. And of course in CS4 there's Adobe Media Encoder for such tasks... And another tip to improve behavior: render to image files (TIFFs), then convert the image sequences in a second go. This will prevent AE from having to keep open a large movie file to append frames in the first pass, which will make it more reliable.
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