[Andrei Mihailescu]

Yeah, I kinda expected / feared this, but wanted to make sure we didn’t miss anything obvious.

The split-up idea doesn’t quite work in our case, due to how the elements are composited together, so we’ll have to give up on the EG template and do everything in After Effects as individual comps.

Perhaps Adobe will consider an option/switch to make specific animation tracks or expressions “responsive” (i.e. not influenced by time stretching). Not sure how that could work exactly, but I guess I should make a feature suggestion, maybe others would find this kind of thing useful as well.

[Andrei Mihailescu]

Thanks Ian.

Obviously I expected that very CPU-intensive and/or disk-intensive codecs might not play back well, but I was worried that there might be some kind of software limitation that would make even simpler codecs not play well (or at all). Glad to hear that is not the case.

May I ask, is there any kind of performance penalty when previewing to a BMD card as opposed to simply playing back to the desktop in your experience? Given the same sequence/codecs, of course.

One thing I really hate about Firewire previews (besides the quality loss in my current setup) is the delay on start/stop/scrub, and those delays are significantly reduced or non-existent in desktop mode. I was hoping for a preview solution that behaved roughly as well as the desktop playback mode in CS4.