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| You can stop playback at the point where the CTI is by pressing the spacebar key - I am assuming that you initiated playback via the RAM Preview key. If you stop playback with the RAM Preview then the CTI will jump to the point in time where you initiated the the RAM Preview - evidently not very user nor client friendly. Here's the fix - If your Timeline is already cached to RAM (green bars), you can initiate realtime playback using the spacebar starting from where the CTI is located. When previews are initiated with the spacebar key, you can stop playback and freeze the CTI at the current time using either the spacebar or the RAM Preview keys. Additionally, you shouldn't want to playback a multi-layered AE comp in Premiere (unless they playback in realtime)cos you lose out on the productivity enhancements apparent with CS6's Global Performance Cache which does intelligent caching and allows for more productive, faster, re-rendering of cached timelines - in short, changes within a cached segment of the Timeline only requires that segment to be re-rendered. HTH Roland Kahlenberg ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Culbertson" <albion@speakeasy.net> To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:37:41 AM Subject: Re: [AE] RAM Preview and client-supervised sessions? That's what I am talking about. The fact that it pops back to the original playhead position once done playing once (or initially pops from the playhead before starting) is confusing to many clients. For instance, yesterday I was working with a client on a series of 5 seconds animations. I had to place the playhead at the beginning of the timeline to show the client the first part of the animation via RAM preview. Then place the playhead at the end of the timeline to show the client the end of the animation via RAM preview. What would be helpful is an option to play from beginning to end without popping to or from the initial playhead position. Of course I could just render the animation out to Quicktime and playback that way. But it wastes time. James -------------------- |
