• Adobe After Effects

  slow previews for animation work

  Posted by Steve Moore on March 18, 2016 at 9:03 pm

  HI guys,
  I am getting very slow previews when trying to preview animations i am creating. I bought a mac pro as was sure this would speed things massively (spec attached) but still not getting real time preview. Running after effects cc 2014. Any advice? (I’m attempting only 5-10 second previews and no fx either, just some puppet pins…) Thanks in advance for any help and advice.
  

  Steve Moore replied 10 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Michael Szalapski

  March 18, 2016 at 9:28 pm

  There’s a bug in El Capitan with CC 2015. Happily, there’s a fix!
  You can apply to join the beta for 13.7.1 that solves the problem.
  Link here: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2112986

  In the meantime, if you need to work right away, you can simply dock another panel underneath your timeline to move your timeline up a little from the bottom. It doesn’t matter which panel (and it can be resized pretty small).

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  Steve Moore

  March 21, 2016 at 9:49 am

  Many Thanks for your replies guys but i was/am using after effects 2014-any other thoughts?!
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  Tero Ahlfors

  March 21, 2016 at 10:27 am

  Comp resolution? What are you doing? Screenshots?
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  Steve Moore

  March 21, 2016 at 4:50 pm

  apologies on second checking i am running after effects 2015 and the ‘place a window below the timeline’ fix seems to have helped a lot, bizarre! thanks for help all.

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