| 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… I just don't get it.
-Chris
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. +---End of message---+ To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv>
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