After Effects 22.5 and spacebar behaviour.

[Piotr Braszak]

Is it me, or did the new AE 22.5 change the behaviour of spacebar? Normally it would playback the current composition from current time, no matter which panel was active. As of now it will only playback the composition when the preview panel is specifically selected. If I select any other panel, the move hand appears.

If that was a deliberate change, then I'd like the previous one back, please. The current change forces me to add a meaningless, unneccessary mouse click to my workflow.

PS. I tried adding spacebar as a shortcut to preview panel (to the right by default), but spacebar is not available, even if I unassign it from keyboard shortcuts.

[Mylenium]

The space bar has always doubled as the hand tool. That is nothing new. The rest may simply be specific issues on your system, in particular related to hardware acceleration not working properly, but without any system info and details like actual hardware acceleration settings, MFR settings and whatnot we can't tell you much. It could in fact even just be a timing issue with your mouse and keyboard or the background MFR instances taking too long to spin up... Anyway, more info is needed.

Mylenium

[nishu_kush]

Hi Piotr Braszak,

Sorry for your issue.

I agree with what Mylenium said. Please share the following details:

• What are your system specifications (CPU, GPU, RAM, OS version)?
• Does it happen in a new project as well?

You can try resetting the preferences of After Effects. Here's how: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/faq-how-to-reset-trash-preferences-in-after...

Let us know.

Thanks,

Nishu

[Piotr Braszak]

The specs are:
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2808 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

- 16.0 GB RAM

- Microsoft Windows 10 Home

The problem occurs in a fresh project. I had a prompt to migrate settings from previous versions. I migrated from 22.4. I shall check if reset works.

[Piotr Braszak · Accepted solution]

Update on the issue.

The latest update 22.6 fixed the problem, but only when I selected Do not migrate when asked about settings. This essentially reseted the settings and interface which, as pointed out by several other unhappy people, should not be the only solution every time a problem appears.

Please try not to break things. This is not the first time stuff has gotten damaged when an update rolled out.

[DeeLeggett]

I am having the same issue on a new project. Hope they fix this. 

[nishu_kush]

Hi DeeLeggett,

Did you update your After Effects to 22.6? Did it help? If it didn't, try resetting the preferences of After Effects.

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,

Nishu