• Adobe After Effects

  Cache preview sometimes oddly short

  Posted by Alex Ezorsky on August 24, 2017 at 7:00 pm

  Even with the work area set for 4 seconds and preview set to play the work area, every once and a while I only get a 1 second preview.

  I have tried clearing the cache, doesn’t help.

  BUT, and for anyone assuming I’ve just got too high a complexity/resolution setting, when I restart AE it can play all 4 seconds fine.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks

  Walter Soyka replied 8 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Stefan Zerdzinski

  August 25, 2017 at 2:20 pm

  Isn’t RAM preview length more to do with the amount of available RAM you currently have rather than the size of the cache folder?
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  Walter Soyka

  August 25, 2017 at 8:19 pm

  Something in Ae is eating up your RAM. Instead of relaunching Ae, you can purge all RAM with the hotkey Ctrl+Alt+NumPadSlash on a PC or Cmd+Opt+NumPadSlash on a Mac, or via the menu system with Edit > Purge > All memory.

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