• Adobe After Effects

  Speeding up playback

  Posted by Ben Lewis on May 19, 2016 at 5:56 pm

  Ok so Im sure this isn’t the first time someone has asked this but as an ex motion user I find the playback within After Effects to be an issue. I’m sure there are many variables here; computer, comp size, footage res, no of filters etc etc

  But if anyone could give some general tips on how to speed up playback that would be great.

  Thanks

  Ben

  Ben Lewis replied 9 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Tero Ahlfors

  May 20, 2016 at 6:29 am

  Speeding up playback how? What are you doing and what are you expecting AE to do?
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  Ben Lewis

  May 20, 2016 at 7:45 am

  Ah ok to clarify. I’m not trying to change the duration of a speed of a clip, I am trying to improve the performance of playback when I am previewing footage. When clips load into ram etc. So when I am trying stuff out, clicking play and the playback is slow until loaded into RAM. Just general tips for speeding up playback.
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  Tero Ahlfors

  May 20, 2016 at 11:47 am

  AE doesn’t play the video back like an NLE or a video player would. Everything loads up first and then plays back. Even if you would only play back a video without any effects on it.

  https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/previewing.html
  https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2015/06/previews-in-after-effects-cc-2015-13-5.html

  The next version is boasting a bunch of performance stuff so maybe we’ll have a quicker AE soon.
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  Ben Lewis

  May 20, 2016 at 12:09 pm

  Thanks. I guess we’ll wait and see! Cheers

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