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After effects not playing when I hit space bar

Community Beginner ,
Jan 04, 2017 Jan 04, 2017

Hello,

Simple Problem, which I am hoping is easy to fix...

When I press the space bar to play an animation review, nothing happens....How can I fix this?

Thanks,

Charlie

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LEGEND , Jan 04, 2017 Jan 04, 2017

Hit zero on the numeric keyboard and wait for the RAM Preview, or wait until AE finishes rendering the background.  Either way involves a little waiting.  AE ain't a video editor, y'know.

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Community Beginner , Nov 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020

This did not work for me, but I found a solution that DID work here:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/after-effect-preview-not-work/m-p/11610161?page=4#M155349

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New Here , Jan 20, 2021 Jan 20, 2021

Hi! I managed to find something that worked for me!

My space bar wouldn't start the video, and sometimes it would go back like 1 frame, but still woulnd't play properly.

All i did was go to Edit > Preferences > Audio Hardware and i disconnected the headphones i was using, after it it was fine and running and i've connected them again and it's all going smooth : )

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LEGEND ,
Jan 04, 2017 Jan 04, 2017

Hit zero on the numeric keyboard and wait for the RAM Preview, or wait until AE finishes rendering the background.  Either way involves a little waiting.  AE ain't a video editor, y'know.

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New Here ,
May 21, 2020 May 21, 2020

No.. it's just a stupid software made by stupid people who don't want to fix bugs.

All Adobe software are full of bugs that are 10 years old and they just keep ignoring them and keep adding all kind of useless fancy features instead..

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New Here ,
May 25, 2020 May 25, 2020

Im on after effects right now.. And when I press space bar it doesnt preview. It goes back 1 milliseccond. 

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New Here ,
Oct 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020

Same it keeps going back a millisecond, did you solve this? 

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New Here ,
Aug 23, 2022 Aug 23, 2022

My space bar wouldn't start the video, and sometimes it would go back like 1 frame, but still woulnd't play properly.

All i did was go to Edit > Preferences > Audio Hardware and i disconnected the headphones i was using, after it it was fine and running and i've connected them again and it's all going smooth : ).   THIS IS CORRECT

 

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New Here ,
Nov 08, 2020 Nov 08, 2020

Hey man, I just figured out how to solve this problem. Just go to composition menu in the top left and then press preview>play current video. Hope this solves your problem 

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New Here ,
Apr 08, 2021 Apr 08, 2021

i just made an adobe account just to thank you 😊

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New Here ,
Dec 15, 2023 Dec 15, 2023

thank you!

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 03, 2020 Aug 03, 2020

All my audio mapping is accurate, and still nothing when I hit spacebar or 0. 

 

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 01, 2020 Dec 01, 2020

I have been facing same problem. Nothing seemed to solve it. But I got it done by the most immature try "RESTART". Yes, I just restarted the AfterEffects and the Spacebar worked fine. Hope this helps 🙂

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New Here ,
Jan 04, 2021 Jan 04, 2021

i have been trying for hoursss and it worked also when i restarted it 😕 

Thanks bro

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New Here ,
Jan 31, 2022 Jan 31, 2022

How do I restart on after effects ? like by just restarting your computer or?

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 31, 2022 Jan 31, 2022

Just close After Effects (or End Task from Task Manager) and launch After Effects again.

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New Here ,
Jul 30, 2024 Jul 30, 2024
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Thanks a lot! That worked.

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020

This did not work for me, but I found a solution that DID work here:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/after-effect-preview-not-work/m-p/11610161?page=4#M1553...

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New Here ,
Jan 20, 2021 Jan 20, 2021

Hi! I managed to find something that worked for me!

My space bar wouldn't start the video, and sometimes it would go back like 1 frame, but still woulnd't play properly.

All i did was go to Edit > Preferences > Audio Hardware and i disconnected the headphones i was using, after it it was fine and running and i've connected them again and it's all going smooth : )

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Participant ,
Apr 02, 2021 Apr 02, 2021

This did it for me! Thanks so much for your reply here.

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New Here ,
Apr 07, 2021 Apr 07, 2021

It actually worked... Who would have thought to search for the problem there? 😮
Adobe should really work on bugs like this.. Small problems like these happened to me in almost every adobe app and it just kills your workflow.....

 

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New Here ,
Apr 29, 2021 Apr 29, 2021

This is the fix! Just like you said you can reconnect afterwards and it still plays. What a goofy bug. Welcome to Adobe I guess...

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Contributor ,
Apr 29, 2021 Apr 29, 2021

This.

What I usually do is in the Audio Hardware tab change the default input to something else, then change it again back to the one I want to use. It solves it for me.

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New Here ,
Oct 28, 2021 Oct 28, 2021

had the exact same problem thanks

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New Here ,
Jun 03, 2022 Jun 03, 2022

You save my life xDD Thanks a lot

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New Here ,
Jul 23, 2021 Jul 23, 2021

Hi

 

I have a easy solution for this. You don't need to restart After effect. Just follow steps:

Step1: Click on Edit

Step2: Click on Preference > Audio Hardware

Step3: Just choose Default Output to Speaker (Laptop / PC Speaker) > OK

Step4: Here you go. 

 

Hope it will solve your probelm ever.

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Contributor ,
May 14, 2023 May 14, 2023

for me the whole problem was in this icon innactive...

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Make sure it is active all time 🙂

Ofcourse88
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