[Michiel Van haren]

Obviously. Who says anything about not watching the tracker?
I can have multiple windows open on my screen so I’m still watching the tracker while clicking off to another window.
And it’s not like I want to have to do this, but the bug in AE forces me to. If I didn’t move focus off of AE, my tracking would take days, not hours.

[Michiel Van haren]

There has been a confirmed issue with AE CC 2015 not responding (or responding very late) to keyboard presses while previewing (as well as several other issues including playback having trouble staying in real time even when all frames are cached).
As far as I understand the document relating to the new preview, a single press on spacebar or numpad 0 should stop the preview. The fact that it doesn’t always do that right now is a bug and Adobe have said that a bugfix update would be released in July.

[Michiel Van haren]

From the blogpost:

layer folders: A lot of folks ask for the ability to add layers to folders to tidy up their Timeline panels. We get it. So why haven’t we done it? Because we know that merely doing this would be a half-solution. As soon as we create a feature that allows you to put layers into folders in the Timeline panel, many people are going to want/expect to be able to apply, say, effects to just the layers in a folder. That starts to sound like a precomposition, right? So the conversation nearly always ends up getting back to the previous request, übertwirl. Similarly, once you’ve got folders, people will want/expect to be able to put non-adjacent layers into folders. Now this starts to sound like labeling/tagging. I’m not sure how we’re going to solve this, but I think that 1) we will solve this and 2) it’s not just going to be with simple layer folders. We get more requests to implement übertwirl, and it seems to us to be the more robust and useful solution. Personally, I use Zorro to manage my layers, and I strongly recommend that you try it yourself. Also, you can get rather far toward tidying up your Timeline panel and managing layer sets by using label colors and using the commands to select label color groups.

This has basically been Adobe’s stance for the past 6 years (the same suggestions for Zorro etc… I’ve seen in the feature request thread on AE forums since 2009!).
They do not want to do “simple layer folders”, even though many users would rather have had these “simple” folders than nothing.

And now it’s 2015 and still there are no groups/folders…

Oh what’s that you say? Someone already did it?

https://aescripts.com/layer-groups/

lol.
While Adobe has been busy for >5 years trying to think of a type of folders/groups that are so complicated that they will surely never see the light of day, this guy just basically did what Adobe refuses to do. Give use simple Photoshop-style groups/folders in the timeline.

It’s sad that you have to now go and pay more money for something that should by now really have been part of AE’s basic feature set, and it has to work with it’s own interface buttons so it’s not as elegant as a proper native solution could have been.

But hey at least it works, and sadly I do no really expect Adobe to ever deliver timeline folder or “ubertwirl” functionality to After Effects at all.

[Michiel Van haren]

I know this is an old thread, but I just started a project where I’m doing a lot of (simple) tracking using the built-in tracker and I have the exact same experience. Granted my footage is mp4, but here also it starts of really quickly then gradually slows down.
And indeed, if you switch to another app, it doesn’t slow down! I guess this is a good “workaround” for now 😉

[Michiel Van haren]

Ok, I just managed to get something working! What I did was go to the “audio output mapping” screen in AE prefs. When this was set to System Default, the “left” and “right” twirl-down selection boxes where empty and I couldn’t select anything there. Then I changed the “map output for” to “built in output” which then gave me the built in speakers for “left” and “right”. Then I changed it back again to “system default” and lo and behold, now suddenly the “left” and “right” menu’s had Blackmagic Audio out selected that weren’t there before!

So for anyone else with this issue, try changing the “map output for…” to something else, then changing back again to see if your Blackmagic outputs suddenly appear.

[Michiel Van haren]

Hi Kristian, thanks for responding.
In AE Audio hardware is set to system default, and in the system settings the audio device for output is set to Blackmagic but I’m not getting any audio from AE. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the BM driver but no luck so far…

[Michiel Van haren]

Hi Kristian,
the problem is that Blackmagic Audio does not show up in the devices list for “default device” in AE CC for me, even though in the system audio settings it is there and works (although for me I am suffering from audio stutters/dropouts in general system audio now)

[Michiel Van haren]

Hi,
we are having the same problem at work here on OSX. Using AE CC and 9.7.5 driver we cannot get audio to play through the Blackmagic audio outputs from After Effects anymore (using Decklink Studio connected to HDLink DVI).
Also it seems that since I installed the latest driver the audio in the whole system seems to exhibit tiny dropouts/stutters in playback that weren’t there before. Although I can’t say for sure if the new driver is causing this, together with the audio in AE not working it seems suspect. Hopefully someone from BM can investigate?