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frustration – why doesn’t caps lock cancel screen preview??
say i’ve got a lot of huge render intensive comps. i accidentally open one up… it starts to preview and you have to wait up to five minutes a frame.
if i hit caps lock, ae STILL processes the frame, and you can’t do ANYTHING until it’s done.
surely caps lock should cut this out mid-process and terminate any processing that’s happening?WHY WON’T YOU DO THIS, ADOBE????
peeved,
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5 Replies
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No, your logic is wrong. C-lock is a modifier key used in concert with other keys or commands, not an exclusive command. How should that possibly allow you to cancel renders halfway thru? I know it sucks, but unless there will be explicit commands for rendering like, say in Shake, I don’t see a way to change that.
Mylenium
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Try turning the caps lock on and forcing it to begin a new cycle by pushing the page-up(next frame) button and the caps lock will hender the rendering… It’s not instant but it should cut the frame render time some.
Andrew
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That sounds logical — Caps Lock may be designed to stop the (screen) render of the next frame, not the current one. So Andrew’s action forces AE to consider the render of the next frame … assuming AE checks the keyboard buffer for the PageDn key at some point during the (screen) rendering process. Maybe between effects? Between layer processing? Have to test.
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mylenium, it’s previewing i meant, not actually rendering to disk. but even when rendering i’ve noticed that hitting the stop button doesn’t cut out immediately either – you have to wait for the current frame before the stop actually happens. i
as for hitting page up/down, it seems to work sometimes but not others… it depends how intensive the render process is at that point in time. i’ve got some pretty intensive comps and sometimes if i forget to caps before i move around, after effects practically becomes frozen for minutes at a time until it recognises that i’ve page-upped or cap-locked or anything else. there should be some kind of instant kill-switch. i wish.
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Yep, that would be nice. You could send a feature request to Adobe. There’s a form on their site.
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