AE Tutorial: How to fix Out of Memory error with hidden Secret Menu

Usually, if we go to the Preferences window, it is displayed like this. No secret categories, everything looks normal. But if we return here holding down Shift well see something interesting Hold it down, then go up to your preferences menu, and select General or something else and After Effects will show the Secret Ok. Here we can see 3 options. First one Disable Layer Cache This will help you a lot if you get an Out of Memory error. This is how it works: When you do render or preview After Effects also renders out information about each layer in your composition onto your memory. This is pretty useful because if you change only one layer and rerender everything again, theoretically it shouldn t take as long as the first time. But if youre working on a computer without a lot of RAM memory its better to not calculate all information. By selecting the checkbox next to Disable Layer Cache you are telling After Effects not to render out the information from each individual layer. This will lighten