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How to step through an unrendered shot frame by frame (like in FCP)? And performance issues
I’m doing a project with a lot of embedded After Effects compositions and other overlays (not done in After Effects). I’m on Premiere Pro CC.
Before I render a shot, I’d like to step through it to check it. In Final Cut 7, there was a way to do that, essentially forcing a render with each frame. What’s the equivalent here?
Also, in general I’m seeing sluggish performance, even though I’m on a new Retina MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM (and Iris Pro graphics and a 2.3GHz i7). Is that likely to be because of all the After Effects dynamic linked compositions? Or is the Canon XF100 footage slowing it down?
It’s not terrible, but I’m seeing it show the wrong frame for seconds at a time before it updates. Sometimes pressing play does nothing for a few seconds, and so on. I’m running off a USB 3.0 7200RPM drive, so I don’t think that’s likely to be an issue.
Any thoughts?
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You can set the work area (context menu on the top right of your timeline in Pr CC), then hit Enter to render.
As far as performance goes, you’re not going to see real time After Effects without render, except for very simple stuff. That’s normal, you wouldn’t in After Effects either.
And unfortunately, you won’t get CUDA processing on a Macbook Pro which requires a nice NVIDIA card, so effects will be as good as your processor can handle.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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