System.OutOfMemoryException

[BedfordWriter]

Does anyone else get that error when building a project? I'm running Mimic 4 on a Vista 32 bit machine with 4G of ram. You'd think that should be enough, given that a 32 bit operating system can't see any more than 4G of ram...

The movie in question is NOT very big. I've tried both Flash and Silverlight outputs.

[khettinger]

Prior to building I have to exit Mimic, re-open it, and then build. Otherwise I always get this error.

I suppose some of my movies are big, though I'm not sure how big is too big!

I'm running Mimic v5, Windows XP, 2 GB of RAM, and am outputting to Flash.

[andrew_s]

I am getting the same error. I am using a trial version prior to deciding whether to use Mimic or Camtasia, but since I use Flare 7 I'd like to be able to continue with another MadCap product.

I have followed the above suggestion, but I still get the same error. I'm running Mimic 5.0.0 (dated 04 Oct 2010) on Win 7 SP1 with 4GB RAM.

If anyone has found another resolution for this issue, I'd be interested in knowing before making the purchase.

Thank you.

[wisefolly]

I was receiving the same error when using Mimic and PowerPoint at the same time. I was a little surprised b/c i too have 4GB RAM.

The sad part is that i would get the message after recording an entire video. I would also get a message stating that the Record function failed. I had to exit/restart Mimic each time.

I also had problems uploading large Mimic files to Powerpoint. For some reason, PowerPoint wouldn't show .swf videos over a certain size (usually 25MB). To solve this, i created hyperlinks to the .htm files.

[andrew_s]

The sad part is that i would get the message after recording an entire video. I would also get a message stating that the Record function failed. I had to exit/restart Mimic each time.

Same here (sorry, I neglected to mention this part in my post above). I did not have PowerPoint running but I do have Outlook 2007 running and Firefox 3.6.22, along with Mimic 5.

I think it might have been due to the large (long) recording I had made, because when I went back and created a quick (1-2 minute) video, I did not get the error. I just spoke with Jose (thanks Jose!) in MadCap Tech Support and he said it's most likely machine-specific resources issue. However, I just also tried it on another machine and had the same issue. Once shortening the video, all's well. I was publishing to Silverlight, btw.

[wisefolly]

On Win 7, I had the following running: Outlook 2010, Mimic v5, Adobe Acrobat X Standard and PowerPoint.

I would get the error when i would start a new video after having stopped a previous video and deleting its frames (sometimes i made mistakes). Deleting the messed up frames before starting a new recording seemed to cause the error for me. If i didn't delete them before, i wouldn't get the error...weird.

Unfortunately, I figured this out much too late.