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Secret Prefs in AE 7?
Hi,
with 6.5 sometimes I had a lot of problems with bigger projects => AE crashes a lot until I saw this posting
“To find the Secret Prefs, hold down shift when accessing AE’s prefs — keep the shift key down until you see the prefs dialog box. Try setting it to purge every 5 frames during Make Movie.”Now, in AE 7 the same thing, but it seems there is no possibility to set “purge every 5 frames during Make Movie”. AE 7 crashes after a while during Render to an avi. Is there any solution now like the old one?
regards
Uwe -
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I can’t check right now, but I’m pretty sure that the secret preferences are still there. You keep shift down, go to the preferences, and in the preferences you have a dropdown menu for different prefs. In this dropdown you should find one that’s named ‘secret’.
I’ve also had a project that would be so incredibly RAM hungry that it would crash during rendering. I noticed that rendering with Caps-Lock active (which disables preview) it didn’t crash at all. You could give that a try…
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You could try and hack the prefs file manually. look for this section:
“Pref_PURGE_EVERY_N_FRAMES” = 0000
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It’s still there. Just checked.
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Oh yes, thank you Barend. I forgot holding down shift. The possibility with Caps-Lock active I
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Why does AE have secret prefs at all? They seem pretty useful — and it seems pretty stupid to hide them.
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some users shouldn’t where the self destruct button is.
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This question was asked on the Media-Motion After Effects email list and was answered by an Adobe employee. I don’t think they’d mind me pasting the response here:
“Hold down Shift when bringing up the prefs via the menu command, and an
extra “Secret” panel is available.The “purge every N frames” option should slow down your renders, as all
caches are blown, but sometimes it is actually helpful. The reason it isn’t
an official feature is that we consider it a bug if using that option is
helping you. Please let us know via the bug report web form on Adobe.com:https://www.adobe.com/misc/bugreport.html
We may need your specific project to reproduce the problem, so please
provide real contact info.Thanks,
DaveS”So there you go.
-Chris Zwar
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