CC 2015 Previews Not Real Time

[Michael Szalapski]

A much simpler workaround is to dock a panel underneath your timeline. It can really be any panel and it can be shrunk really small.

An even easier workaround is to update AE to version 13.7.1 which works around this issue. (Don’t do the update if you work with .r3d files until you copy certain things first – see this thread [link].)

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[Dennis Schmitz]

Never had this problem (exactly this problem actually) in Windows until the latest bug fix update… Whoa!

I can’t playback realtime anymore since this update (13.7.1) until I zoom into a place where the cursor isn’t visible…

[Jared Young]

[Michael Szalapski] “A much simpler workaround is to dock a panel underneath your timeline. It can really be any panel and it can be shrunk really small.”

This fixed it for me.

I came back to a project that didn’t playback well and my render queue was underneath my timeline. Now playback was fine, even by just hitting the spacebar. After closing the render queue it went back to a poor framerate even after caching. I put the render queue back underneath and it plays fine again.

[Michael Szalapski]

Jared, what version of AE are you running? This issue was meant to be fixed for Macs in an update. The latest CC 2015 for Mac is 13.7.2.x

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[Jared Young]

Michael, thanks for your reply. Looks like I hadn’t even checked to see if there was an update. I was on 13.6.x and after updating to 13.7.2.3 it’s working as it should be without having a window beneath the timeline.

[Jeroen Beltman]

You can install After Effects CC14 and before from the Adobe Creative Cloud Application Installer Software. See this video: 10148_creativecloud362016125538.mp4.zip

[Miki Kada]

YES!! It works!! So, this is a bug!

[Cole Christine]

AE 13.8.1.38
OSX 10.10.5

Same issue as many above. I currently am editing 600fps footage interpreted as 60fps. No effects and a single WAV audio track. During Preview, audio stutters and changes pitch. “Cache Before Playback” is checked. By checking “Mute Audio When Preview Is Not Real-time” audio cuts out during preview. It’s evident Preview is not playing back at real-time when cached.

Workarounds:
1) Using Tilde to maximize the composition window resolved the issue.
2) Checking “Fullscreen” in the Preview window resolved this issue.

These workarounds don’t apply to a Standard workspace layout. Apparently a bug fix was issued in 13.7, but did this address the bug in OSes prior to El Capitan?

[Cole Christine]

As an update, experimenting with the composition frame-rate seemed to help. 53FPS and above caused audio lag during Preview, but 52FPS and below did not. Raising composition FPS increased the amount of audio lag during preview, with severe audio pitch drops to compensate for lower rates of playback. It seems pretty clear that even with 13.8, AE still experiences the audio lag bug on older operating systems.

[Till Koenig]

Thanks Jared Young! This fixed it for me!
This Software getting stranger to me every day.