getting a full RAM preview

[Jimmy Brunger]

Malcolm, shutting down your computer and leaving it off a couple of minutes can sometimes work when just a plain restart doesn’t…something about it holding something in cache until it is totally powered down for a while. It’s worked for me in the past. Don’t ask me how it works though!

As for the comp window resize…doesn’t seem to make any difference for me having it at 100% or 1.5%.

Anyone else seeing any difference for this in AE7?

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[Jimmy Brunger]

I appreciate I’m still on a single proc computer (albeit a resonably fast one), but I’m only working on shortform projects in SD at present and some stuff is stupidly slow.

An 8-core beast with 16GB or RAM for SD would be amazing…but I imagine by the time my miser of a boss gets round to ok’ing that we’ll be doing mostly HD anyway!

Such is life.

Honestly though, reducing my comp window did nothing to preview speeds. Have I done something wrong!? Is there a trci to it I don’t know about? I could do with grabbing every spare second at the moment!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Ahhh…so the shrunk comp window only works in conjunction with reduced resolution? I know about setting it to half, etc. But I got the impression reducing comp window’s PHYSICAL size sped things up aswell…or have I got my wires crossed?

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[Kevin Mcquade]

So why don’t my previews play in real time any more? I have found it easier to make small movies so I see the timing of animations. I have been reducing my resolution and comp size for years. I understand how that works. I also tried emptying my cache etc.

[Steve Roberts]

I’m assuming your RAM previews don’t play at full frame rate…?
(sorry, we need to be specific on technical matters)

If you have a Decklink card, try setting your video preview pref to “faster”, and/or matching the 16:9 or 4:3 setting to your 16:9 or 4:3 comp format … all in the prefs.

[Jimmy Brunger]

[Dave LaRonde] “Jimmy, this isn’t brain surgery. Just open up an AE comp, do a RAM preview at full resolution, then do a RAM preview at half-resolution, and note the difference, okay?”

Dave, I think we’ve definitely got wires crossed here! I know setting res to half, qtr, etc speeds things up..I do it all the time. I’m talking about physically shrinking the comp window aswell. As in: com window @ 100% half res vs. comp window at 50% half res.

I can’t see a difference in speed here, I guess I must have misread the initial post. Maybe most ppl have prefs set up so comp window shrimnk automatically when you lower res, I don’t.

Nehmind!

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[Malcolm Desoto]

Hmmm…interesting info on the history of RAM and the rise of HD.

Well, everything is moving along alot smoother.

I do however, have a bloody chicken in the fridge if things start going wonky again.