How to keep ram preview loading while switching to another program

[Todd Kopriva]

If those other programs need the RAM, then the operating system is going to take it from After Effects and give it to those other programs.

In general, you should have a separate computer (like a cheap laptop) for things like email, web browsing, music, et cetera. Then you won’t have problems with these peripheral programs taking resources away from your main working applications on your worksatation.

That said, check your Memory & Multiprocessing preference settings in After Effects and make sure that your RAM distribution is such that other applications are being allocated an adequate amount of RAM.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Philip Bowser]

I agree with you, that is a little annoying. I’m not sure if you’re on a Mac or PC, but I’ve been able to switch programs by pressing Command + Tab without After Effects stoping a ram preview on my Mac. Or by using the dock to switch apps. However you are correct that After Effects will stop a ram preview if you click anywhere inside of AE. It would be great if there was a preference setting to tell After Effects to only stop the rendering of a ram preview if you press the stop button or it’s associated hot key. That way an accidental mouse click doesn’t halt a render.

Perhaps there is a reason for it being this way that I am not thinking of..

Philip. Bowser

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Are you previewing via the spacebar instead of the 0 key on the numeric keypad?

RoRK

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[Orion Satori]

Awesome! That works (hitting 0). Thanks!