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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Preview Is VERY VERY Slow And Stops

  • Andy George

    April 12, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    Hi Anthony,

    The speed of your Ram Preview is really dependent upon what’s happening in
    your composition. It’s hard to tell from your video exactly what’s going
    on in your comp but Im guessing it’s got a lot of 3D layers and effects applied.
    Can you provide some more details on your composition?

    4 gigs of Ram is not going to buy you a very long preview. Especially in an HD composition.

    Do you have “enable multiple Processors” selected? If so that may be slowing you down as well.
    You don’t have enough Ram to run more than 1 core at a time. Check out Todd Kopriva’s
    article on the subject-

    https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2009/12/performance-tip-dont-starve-yo.html

    -Andy

  • Jeffrey Kaplan

    April 12, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    I noticed you want to preview the work in Full Res. Try setting your Comp window to 1/2 res or 1/3rd res and then hit 0 for a ram preview – you’ll get a much longer clip.

    Jeff Kaplan
    Point 360 WEST
    Animation & VFX Department
    http://www.point360.com

  • Tony Brittan

    April 17, 2010 at 2:43 pm

    Quick question about RAM preview…I’m new to AE and working on a Mac Pro with the Bluetooth keyboard. Problem is that the Apple Bluetooth keyboard doesn’t have a numeric keypad. So…I can’t use the 0 key for RAM previews. Can’t I use the other 0?

    Tony Brittan

  • Jeffrey Kaplan

    April 18, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    For RAM Preview: there’s a button in the preview panel that looks a little similar to a play button. See the following link:

    https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7ec9a.html#WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7ec7a

    Look under the “Use RAM preview to play video and audio” subhead.

    You can also try a Standard Preview:

    You can hit the spacebar for a standard preview – that will play the video in the active Composition, Layer, or Footage panel from the current time. However, Standard Preview will not play audio.

    Jeff Kaplan
    Point 360 WEST
    Animation & VFX Department
    http://www.point360west.com

  • Anthony Uccello

    April 18, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    Thank you ALL

    Im away until next week

    Will address these points soon.

    Thank you again

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