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danmitch1
danmitch1
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July 4, 2019
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Animation playback issue

  • July 4, 2019
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Hello all,

Long time reader second time posting!

After several google searches I can not figure out what has happened to my animation playback

(please bear with me if this has been answered using different key words)

I have loaded 400 + (300x300 pixels) JPEG images into Photoshop as layers using the load into stack script. With the timeline open, I can create a frame animation from layers.

The issue..

Before, playback performance (with all frames set to 0 delay) would perform as should in Photoshop.

Now for some odd reason, animation playback in Photoshop is much slower and obviously not playing back at the correct frame rate.

Im running Photoshop CS6 on a custom built Windows 10 pro PC (32 gb 3200mhz ddr4 ram, I9 9900k, gtx 1080 ti)

I cannot figure it out,

Any ideas are greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Dan.

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    davescm
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    davescmCommunity Expert
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    July 4, 2019

    With zero delay you have not set a frame rate so there is no correct to aim at. Try setting a delay for each frame based on what you need. Even then preview playback will depend on your machine resources.

    Note if your intended output is to gif, as opposed to a video format such as mp4, don't set the frame rate too high. Although you can theoretically produce a gif with 50fps, some browsers actually slow playback down if faced with too high a rate. For gif I usually aim at around 12-15fps (delay 0.08-0.06s)

    Dave

    danmitch1
    danmitch1Author
    Participating Frequently
    July 4, 2019

    Aha, That makes sense! Im going to have to check that out when I get home. As far as resources go, I believe I have ample even over kill so I think it has to be what you said with the delay. Im exporting to mp4 then into premier after, but it was more the performance in photoshop that was puzzling me. Im guessing it retains your previous settings because I had set the delay to zero on another project, most likely why it performed well before and not now.

    Ill try it out and post back!

    Thanks very much for your reply!

    Dan.

    danmitch1
    danmitch1Author
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    July 5, 2019

    Im not sure that is the issue. When I set the delay on all frames to 0.01 seconds, the animation still plays back sluggishly in Photoshop (the exported content plays correctly )

    During playback my cpu usage is near 11%,  ram 42%, gpu 6%.

    Is there some sort of performance setting I need to activate or something?

    Thanks again for your time!

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