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Subject: Re: [AE] RAM Preview and client-supervised sessions?
From: James Culbertson <albion@speakeasy.net>
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 21:46:50 -0700
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Hard to hit that last frame with the spacebar.  ;-)

I don't get realtime frame rates with spacebar playback of cached =
frames. Not with HD sizes anyway. No problem with RAM playback. Not sure =
what the difference is... RAM, graphics card, CPU?

Premiere isn't really an option at this point, since I use FCP (and =
clients expect it).

Thanks for the suggestions,

James


On May 16, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Roland Kahlenberg (RoRK) wrote:

> 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.
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> Here's the fix -=20
> 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.
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> 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.
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> HTH
> Roland Kahlenberg
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> ----- 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Of course I could just render the animation out to Quicktime and
> playback that way. But it wastes time.
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> James
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