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NEWBY: preview screen a la combustion
One of the things that turned me off to AE and on to Combustion was the option to turn on two screens: one to work in and the other which constantly updated to show the results of my tinkering.
Every time I try to set up two screens in AE whenever I touch any parameter the looping preview window stops.
Is there a way to have a screen update and play constantly while I mess with the variables?
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Rick
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5 Replies
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Nope, not yet. Apple’s Motion offers that sort of thing, though.
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Thanks Steve.
[Steve Roberts] “Nope, not yet. Apple’s Motion offers that sort of thing, though.”
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Not being funny, but why would you want this? If you have realtime output to a TV monitor why would you want another monitor window on your pc doing the same thing?
Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
*AE 5.5 Pro – *PS CS1 – *Combustion 3
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I think that Rick wants the preview to continue playing through user interventions.
The realtime monitor output just means that the comp window is copied to the TV monitor with no perceptible delay. However, AE still can’t play a RAM preview while you mess around with settings. Any user intervention stops the preview. You stop the preview, make a change, start a new preview. You watch it. You stop it, make a change, make a new preview. Watch, stop, change, start. And so on.
In Motion, you start a preview, then while it plays, you make changes, and Motion updates the preview while it continues to play.
Of course, Motion has its limitations, but in simpler comps, that feature can save a lot of time.
Media 100 has something that does this too, but it’s expensive.
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Hmmm…that sounds quite cool. Might jump on Combustion again and have a look at that. I barely use Combustion, cos it’s such a complicated nightmare to do something that is so simple in AE!
*AE 5.5 Pro – *PS CS1 – *Combustion 3
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Win XP Pro SP2 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / BMD DeckLink Pro / Sony BVM-20G1E / DVS SDI Clipstation
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