Isn’t the caps-lock solution stupid?

[Jason Jantzen]

Kevin Camp had the correct answer. This is seconded by Todd Kopriva’s tweet a year and a half ago.

https://twitter.com/toddkopriva_ae/status/322825830898208769

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[Matthew Wood]

Yes, but the problem with this is that when the renderer is going you cannot open the comp window, if you want to check something out. Not even when it is paused, as far as I know. I would say that the caps lock is a better choice than closing comp window, right?…. right?… see, i can be condescending, too, didnt ya know? There’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s a flippin aspie, so firing back, with even more force, is first nature… 🙂 Ive seen all your highlights, though. Your comments in, randomly 200 threads I have looked through were both always the most annoying and the funniest. At first just annoying, then came to expect it and so — hahha.. too funny, anywho, more on that latere.. its just completely, utterly, complicated to explain to you, right now, as I don’t have time to slow myself to the average man’s pace, in order to do so…

Meanwhile,back at the lab:
That would actually be a tiny code addition and have huge upside, though, the ability to just do what is possible with the bgrenderer. Even if it was just configuration changes and such, nothi8ng on the timeline

This is a super simple fix just like the magnification levels not being able to go between 50 and 100 unless fit to 100. I odn’t know of any other app that cannot scale between such number gaps. It is very strange, and clearly intended to frustrate me.

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[Zvi Twersky]

[Dave LaRonde]:“Ain’t no reason to use your render as your final error-checking time.

Oh, I guess you could get mesmerized by the comp window refreshing as it renders, and you might actually like stopping your render and fixing errors when you spot them, but I’m not a fan of that.”

Exactly! When you render – and I mean export, not render preview, you should already be at least %99 sure that all is good-to-go and there is usually no reason for the preview window to run for the hours of export time (yes, even on strong machines, it can take hours to render large and heavy projects).

So although I don’t mind that the user should have a choice if to keep the preview window running or not, it’s just the CAPS LOCK that bothers me. There is NO other Adobe software or any company for that matter that makes you keep a keyboard function on (CAPS, NUM-LOCK, ScrLk, etc…) in order to perform any kind of task. It just doesn’t make sense.

I, like many others, multitask all the time… I don’t sit for 40 minutes to watch the preview screen while rendering… I use this time to reply to client emails, maybe edit in Premiere, or maybe I must write a birthday card for my wife because in 3 hours her birthday will be over and I’ll be over my head in trouble… I can’t have the caps-lock on for any of this. What’s not to understand?

In reply to your answer about cluttering the interface with more buttons… that’s silly. In the render que itself you can have a checkbox on or off to determine if the preview window should be running or not. You can even switch the CAPS LOCK with an option, say, click the F1 button to turn it on during render and F1 again to turn it off. Don’t make me keep a keyboard function ON all the time.

[Matthew Wood]

Man, I am not even 5% sure when I render, no joke. That is another huge barrier I have.I have 8gb ram, dual quad i7. But I, generally, use so many effects to color grade for keying, difference mattes, flippin alpha chokers, alpha cleaners, bla bla fn bla… Even on fast draft or with draft 3d

@Dave LaRonde,I skipped over your reply for my own sake of not getting distracted from my task, but I will read them, now. But, to the point you both make, my workflow is just beyond random, so far beyond. I have no— since I really have no specific tuts, on the entirety of the internet, for the exact things that i am doing, at my skill/experience level, with a learning path that I took. , due to no one else ever having created the type of art I am doing, means that I havent been able to find ANY kind of routine. Chicken with my head cut off just trying to push a few more vids out that with more new stuff.

It is counter productive, for me to be doing the hands on, instead of just the design, but I am selfish and unwilling to pass any of the first few examples of it all, to anyone else, so I fumble forward

My last four final project renders had over 100 layers each… You think that is bad? I don’t name them, either, heh heh… “If will take thousands of hours, dozens of minutes a day, by the end, will equal a big number”, is what I say, to myself. This can be an irrational way to approach it, at times, but every release I can see a lot of improvement, from the previous, so it is not not working, kinda…

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[Matthew Wood]

The thing is, I am a software developer, first and foremost. My desktop interface software, Splinter, has been number one rated on Earth, for three years straight, in April.

I definitely know what you are saying, and in most cases I would agree. But—well, but I dont NOT want to learn, at all, haha.. No, that was never my point. My point was that I do not want to learn the wrong things, dont want to waste time learning things that will in no way help me to accomplish the tasks. I have spent SO much time watching tuts, of all kinds. But it is like I get a tiny piece of something here and a little bit there.. The most informative were the Masters of Visual FX with Stu Maschwitz and friends. Gained a great deal of knowledge but wasnt able to see it all in practice so only went so far..

Im aspie, rememba? “Not wanting to learn” is inconceivable, to me, literally… And I can do anything that you pros can do, i just cannot do most as well, yet. But nor do I have to get as the design is where my focus

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[Matthew Wood]

So, I just came across a kind of fix. I disabled the display output while rendering option within Media Encoder and now, without caps lock enabled, my AE is not rendering the output to the screen.

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[Matthew Wood]

never mind. Apparently, just a “glitch”. I am a developer so I use that word loosely. A “bug” of sorts, apparently. The only variable changed since my last render was that option within Media Encoder. Happened once and now it isn’t, caps required, again

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[Darby Edelen]

I’m not clear on why you consider caps lock required when there’ve been at least three alternatives suggested.

I personally dock my render queue in the same area as the comp viewer, but I can see the benefit to using ` to maximize any other panel to hide the comp viewer. The ` key has the benefit of allowing you to show the comp viewer again during the render if you like.

Darby Edelen

[Criis Daw]

Does pressing the caps lock really speed it up anyway ?

But as for media encoder , I haven’t done any proper timed tests but it seems a whole lot slower at rendering to me. That said the quality is so much better.

[Rogelio Folgueras]

This is a super simple fix just like the magnification levels not being able to go between 50 and 100 unless fit to 100. I odn’t know of any other app that cannot scale between such number gaps. It is very strange, and clearly intended to frustrate me

hahah, agree 🙂