Can anyone tell me if I have this set up correctly for using After Effects. I just love using this program but it gets so slow. Maybe I just need a better laptop. Thank you!
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No plug ins. I am rather new at this...two years on my own. Slow to get the green bar back to preview most times. I do have many layers, comps. I have been reducing the comps in 'dependencies and working on most comps separately. I just wanted to make sure I had the setting for the preview 'ram' and the memory ...whatever set up correctly. I do have a graphics card that I bought and I think it's being used. Can you tell from what I sent you?
Effects in this project include turbulance dispalce, fill, a bit of cc bendit, masks everywhere, trim paths. Does this help. I end up clearing the disk often. Just didn't know if you could tell if I am using a graphic card? I bought it thinking this would help with speed. Maybe it would be slower if I didn't have it? Answering another answer...project>project settings...where is this to see if this setting? Thank you for any help.
I think it's likely AE is using your GPU, but you can check your project settings (File > Project Settings)
As @nishu_kush says, After Effects isn't a video editor. That type of software plays the clips directly from the video files. Instead After Effects builds up each frame into its RAM (the green line shows its progress). If you need to check timings, try this:
- Solo just the layers you need to check
- Hit 0 on your keypad to preview the timeline without sound.
- Once it has run through this, use the spacebar to preview the timeline again with sound.
You can also preview the audio and use the keypad's * to add markers to your comp, so you can have a visual indicator to line up animations.
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