Slow refresh rate when scrolling timeline

[Chris Warren]

Decrease the resolution in the Preview to half, or lower if needed

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[Sam Freeman]

Sorry Dave, should have been more specific. Apologies!

I’m doing a comic book layout with frames made in illustrator, (cont rasterise on) and then HD ProRes footage in the different frames. These are masked out using track mattes (solids). Then I animate around using a camera. There are lights but I turn them off until I render – same with motion blur etc. It’s nothing taxing really. Classic Renderer. I should note I work in quarter quality for the most part, when building (always have), and changing the resolution of the viewing makes no odds anway (as that’s absolutely fine for navigating around).

Also, it’s not the viewer that I can’t navigate around – that’s fine, it’s scrolling up and and down and left and right in the timeline that causes me issues. It just chugs down layer at a time when you try and scroll down. It’s fine when I use the scroll bars however… Just irritating when you’re in a hurry. I never had an issue with this in CS5 or 5.5, and it’s taken a few months of using CS6 (and the new tablet) for me to get annoyed enough to ask if other people experience it.

Thanks
Sam

iMac 3.4gHz i7
16gb Ram
CS6

[Vince Lund]

I seem to be having exactly the same issue… It seems when I have lots of layers on the Timeline (enough to fill the screen) scrolling up and down becomes slow and painful… I’m using trackpad to scroll. Grabbing scrolls bars seems a bit better, but there is still some lag as the scroll is initiated.

**this is scrolling the timeline window up and down, not panning on the viewer**

Anyone having the same trouble? Did you find a solution, Sam? I have multiprocessing off, and 16GB ram.

Cheers,

Vince.

[Sam Freeman]

I never actually found a solution for this – I’ve put it down to another small glitch in CS6 which I have to put up with. The benefits of CS6 do generally outweigh the downsides, but I find this so very frustrating. Nothing I do seems to make a difference…

Let me know if you find anything!

Thanks
Sam

[Johan Weidlerino]

I’m having the same issues and while it seems a frequently appearing issue, no fix is done yet. Kind of frustrating.
Even more, as it does not even work to turn the render-engine completely off with pushing capslock.

[Shane Robinson]

seems as though turning off the “After Effects Multiprocessing” dramatically improved it for me. Scroll rate is now as fast as the wheel will go rather than the chunky slow lag that it had before.

Preferences > Memory & Multiprocessing
uncheck “Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously”

[Normann Petkau]

Hi guys,

after struggling with the same problem for a few months now on my mac (not on PC), I think I have found something that makes scrolling up and down the timeline window so stuttery: It’s the Cache Indicator, the thin line between the work area bar and the layers.

My Solution:
Open the drop down menu of the timeline panel and turn off the option “Show Cache Indicators”… that’s it.
I also noticed, that when it is turned on and there is a caching-process going on the scrolling is stuttery, but when the process is finished (i. e. the line goes from lighter gray to dark gray) the scrolling is smooth.

I hope this helps You, it worked for me. But also I have to say, that it is the Mac Version of After Effects I am talking about – on PC I never had this Problem… strange.

Normann

[Greg Platt]

You are a LIFESAVER. Turning off the Cache Indicators cleared it right up for me. I hated this issue. Thanks!

[Sam Freeman]

Normann you are a genius! I’m pretty sure that’s sorted it for me as well. It’s been bugging me for so long but I’ve never got close to sorting it (I’d actually forgotten that drop down menu existed…)

Thanks a million for sorting at and for sharing.

[Chouki Merou]

Thank you! This issue made me continue working on CS5.5 until now !

However, turning off the Cache indicator make disappear of course the display of the green/blue bar of the RAM/Disk preview. Viewing it can be useful. Any suggestions?

Thanks again