• Adobe After Effects

  Preview in background?

  Posted by Kendall Shaw on March 8, 2015 at 2:12 pm

  Is there a way to render the workarea without needing to specify a filename, wait for it to render, then open the rendered file? Preview, essentially. Except, preview stops if I switch focus to another program. I want it to do it’s rendering, be able to do other things, then look at the result after it is done rendering.

  Kendall Shaw replied 11 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  March 8, 2015 at 7:50 pm

  yes

  https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/previewing.html

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Kendall Shaw

  March 8, 2015 at 11:10 pm

  I do not see previewing in the background mentioned there.
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  Paul Esteves

  March 9, 2015 at 2:06 pm

  When I Ram preview, i can open other applications and it will keep ‘ram previewing.’ When I go back to AE, its loaded and will play when I hit ram preview.
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  Kendall Shaw

  March 10, 2015 at 3:34 am

  Err… I’m seeing that too. Sorry for the noise. My guess is that I have been hitting escape before switching.

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