it sounds like a tip for a video game, but after effects cs3 has secret levels settings. they can even be so important for your project that you don’t understand why adobe hid them. in my case, i had severe troubles rendering a 3 minutes short (on my vista sp1 laptop with 2gb of ram), because after effects constantly told me that it is running out of memory… it felt like the software was piling up all the rendered images into ram and released it when the render is finished. to get around this problem, hold the shift key, go to edit > preferences > memory & cache and you’ll be surprised to see a new entry in the drop down menu called ‘secret’: the most interesting setting is the one that you can clear the memory after a specific amount of rendered images: ‘disable layer cache’. i put in 15 and i finally could render my short without any problems.
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Nice one Bastiaan! sounds like a real live saver! Strange they hid this indeed
thank you!! thank you!!thank you!!thank you!! thank you!!thank you!!thank you!!
thank so much
I love you forever. Now I just have to wait 8hrs for it to finish rendering…
thanks dud……………..
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Like that !
PLEASE HELP ME!!! i have big trouble since i'm working on animating some pics, small work but my trouble is that when i finishe the job and export the file, m images loos all quality, the look pixelated and i need to work on them on premier and this is even worst!! what am i doing wrong?? i'm going crazy
Thank you so much…
Very useful….. 
Thanks! I used the "secret" and…bingo. It worked again!