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March 12, 2026
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Playback/preview is pixelated

  • March 12, 2026
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If i press spacebar and let it play, it gets blurry. Using mouse for fast preview or scrubbing on timeline, everything is fine. i’m on 100% magnification percentage. Resolution on Full. Cleared my cache. Updated to the latest After Effects 2026. But still nothing is working. Was working perfectly fine but suddenly this happened. On the picture, you’ll see its pixelated while it’s playing compared to the one that’s still (maybe need a bit of a zoom-in but trust me its very noticeable. Had this on other projects as well… Its a bit annoying.

 

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    Community Expert
    March 13, 2026

    This is usually because your graphics card can’t keep up with the playback and the final product should render out fine. You may want to try updating your graphics drivers.