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Ram Previews not long enough
Hi,
Newbie here at CC! I was wondering if anyone knew how to increase the length that a “Ram Preview” gives, some of the projects I’m working on are over a minute long I find it only previews about 30secs through and I seem to be running into this problem quite a bit now even at “quarter resolution & at 25%” . Are there any settings in preferences that I can adjust that lets me see a longer Ram Preview? (I havent touched them too much really)
Cheers
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What version of After Effects?
See “FAQ: Why does RAM preview only play part of my composition?”
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If you run out of RAM… explore Disk Cache options
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques
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in addition to the down sampling that you are currently doing, you can set ram preview (or shift-ram preview) to skip frames. skipping 1 frame will double the duration that you can preview. the setting is in the preview controls (window>preview).
you can also use the region of interest feature that allows you to preview just a portion of the comp. it’s the button next to the down sample dropdown. click it and draw a rectangle around just a portion of the comp viewer.
of course the other option is to get more ram, a 64-bit os, and cs5 which will be able to address a lot more ram for ram previews.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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Thanks, I’m using CS4 on a Mac Pro with 2x 3GHZ Quad Core and 10GB of Ram and usually working in 1920×1080, I havent really touched my preferences in AE except I turned “Render multiple frames simultaneously” on only affects final output. Depending on how graphics heavy the project is I usually get about 20seconds of preview using Ram and I usually have Photoshop running at the same time too. Ah, I hadn’t even noticed the region of interest icon next to down sampling and will check the “drop frame” out too.
Cheers
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Cool, thanks for the link Dave, very helpful.
Cheers
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Hi Jody,
This might help you. It certainly did me. https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2009/12/performance-tip-dont-starve-yo.html
Goodluck!
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