Isn’t the caps-lock solution stupid?

[John Cuevas]

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[Jon Doughtie]

I do not intend this to sound snarky – I really don’t. But the caps lock is a button, and it does the job.

[Zvi Twersky]

Snarky 🙂 I can’t do other PC operations while my CAPS LOCK is on or else EVERYTHING WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS.

[Walter Soyka]

How about maximizing the Render Queue panel with the accent grave/tilde key before rendering?

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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[Kevin Camp]

I just have the render queue as a tab in the same panel as the preview window.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Zvi Twersky]

Hey guys, there is no shortage of workarounds. You can use Media Encoder to render, you can close the preview panel, and many other things. I was just wondering… “why”.

[Walter Soyka]

[Zvi Twersky] “Hey guys, there is no shortage of workarounds. You can use Media Encoder to render, you can close the preview panel, and many other things. I was just wondering… “why”.”

I guess we could turn the question around — with so many other ways to prevent viewer updates, why add another button or preference to the UI? Why take development and Q&A time away from other features or problems with no workaround? What about the potential for user confusion? Think of the “Ae doesn’t look like it’s rendering anymore” posts we’d start seeing.

Also — and I’m curious here — is the time difference measurable and significant on modern machines?

That said, John nailed it with the first response of the thread. If this is important to you, file a feature request [link]. These are all logged and tracked by a real live human being and discussed and evaluated by the development team.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Matthew Wood]

Especially frustrating when switching to a different window, like a browser, and telling yourself not to forget to reset the caps lock after typing in whatever “you” are quickly typing in, then forgetting about the cap not being set, dragging the render time out even further.

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[Spencer Tweed]

Haha, I run into this all the time. I’ve probably made a million folders nAMED lIKE tHIS on our network. I definitely think there should be a button! (or option at least)

One thing you can do is hit ~ over the render queue and thus minimize the preview.

It’s funny because when you watch folder render AE does actually do what you say – it doesn’t render the preview. So it shouldn’t be hard for the AE guys to make that an option in the preferences: “Disable viewer on render” or something like that.

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

Actually that’s a pretty good idea!

– Spencer