Return-Path: Received: from atl4mhob09.myregisteredsite.com ([209.17.115.47] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5037937 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 05:20:41 +0200 Received: from mail.hostingplatform.com ([10.30.71.210]) by atl4mhob09.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r3E3SfCN006042 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:28:41 -0400 Received: (qmail 12045 invoked by uid 0); 14 Apr 2013 03:28:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.7?) (chris@chriszwar.com@60.225.197.206) by 0 with ESMTPA; 14 Apr 2013 03:28:40 -0000 From: Chris Zwar Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_175B813D-69C6-4093-938D-522F6EDCBB5E" Message-Id: <1C47216B-FEDA-4020-A313-7F602722661E@chriszwar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Subject: Re: [AE] a tip about Caps Lock Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:28:38 +1000 References: To: "After Effects Mail List" In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) --Apple-Mail=_175B813D-69C6-4093-938D-522F6EDCBB5E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 I've never understood the obsession with rendering with caps-lock on. = Back in the 3.1 days, when we were working on machines where the speed = was measured in megahertz and memory in megabytes - yes. It made a = small difference to render with caps lock on and save the machine the = time needed to draw the output. And also because we were using crappier = operating systems that didn't multitask properly, once you hit the = 'render' button there wasn't much else to do but wait. Caps lock back = in those days made a small but measurable difference. But that was = about 10 years ago, or more. These days we have multi processor computers, multi-threaded = applications, running at gigahertz with gigabytes of RAM and usually = with loads of applications open at the same time. You no longer sit = around doing nothing while waiting for renders. If you're not rendering = in the background (and you should be) then you probably have your = browser opening checking Facebook or something. That's going to make a = bigger difference than caps lock. Caps lock=85 I just don't get it. -Chris On 14/04/2013, at 1:01 PM, Michael Malone wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 > On Apr 12, 2013, at 3:38 pm, Todd Kopriva wrote: >=20 >> Here's something I just tweeted: >>=20 >> "to all who use CAPS LOCK when rendering in After Effects: Don't. = Dock Render Queue panel over Composition panel. Same result; less = shouting." >>=20 >> I'm going to try to get this change made in our Standard workspace, = too. >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to >=20 >=20 --Apple-Mail=_175B813D-69C6-4093-938D-522F6EDCBB5E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 I've = never understood the obsession with rendering with caps-lock on. =  Back in the 3.1 days, when we were working on machines where the = speed was measured in megahertz and memory in megabytes - yes.  It = made a small difference to render with caps lock on and save the machine = the time needed to draw the output.  And also because we were using = crappier operating systems that didn't multitask properly, once you hit = the 'render' button there wasn't much else to do but wait.  Caps = lock back in those days made a small but measurable difference. =  But that was about 10 years ago, or more.

These = days we have multi processor computers, multi-threaded applications, = running at gigahertz with gigabytes of RAM and usually with loads of = applications open at the same time.  You no longer sit around doing = nothing while waiting for renders.  If you're not rendering in the = background (and you should be) then you probably have your browser = opening checking Facebook or something.  That's going to make a = bigger difference than caps lock.

Caps lock=85 = I just don't get = it.

-Chris

On 14/04/2013, at 1:01 PM, Michael Malone <mmalone@mac.com> wrote:



On Apr 12, 2013, at 3:38 pm, = Todd Kopriva <kopriva@adobe.com> = wrote:

Here's something I just = tweeted:

"to all who use CAPS LOCK when rendering in After = Effects: Don't. Dock Render Queue panel over Composition panel. Same = result; less shouting."

I'm going to try to get this change made = in our Standard workspace, too.
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