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Cached Preview needs 2 or more frames to playback?

Community Beginner ,
Feb 04, 2017 Feb 04, 2017

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Hi, I have been struggling with this After Effects for 2 days now and badly need to fix this.

When I try to preview what I am working on in my composition by pressing my space bar and clicking on the play button, I get this pop up message: "Cached Preview needs 2 or more frames to playback". When I click OK, I usually get the following pop-up: "Fresh layer cache check-out failed".

I cannot seem to get more than one frame in green or blue (cached). I have already tried Purging the memory, cleaning the database & cache and emptying my disk cache. I have also tried working on my other after effects files ( which all worked fine a few days ago) and they all have trouble previewing. I also tried working on earlier versions of After Effects and that either did not change my situation or could not open my files (not compatible versions, which is confusing to me because I have switched versions in the past when having a problem in AE and never had files not open because of version compatibility).

My max disk cache size is 75, which has always worked fine for me, with 12 GB RAM available for AE.

My "Reduce cache size when system is low on memory" is NOT checked and I have no other programs running.

Screen Shot 2017-02-04 at 4.11.04 PM.png

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Running latest version of After Effects 2017, 14.0.1.5

It's my first time posting a question on here so if I'm missing any useful info, please let me know.

I see a lot of people asking this same question on forums and have tried many of the tricks and tips, even the strange or very general ones, cleaned up a ton and restarted the computer and the program many times. None of the forums questions seemed to have been answered with a clear answer though, so hoping someone can help me as the Adobe chat will only open in two days and I have clients waiting for their work.

Thank you

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Community Beginner , Mar 04, 2017 Mar 04, 2017

Hi Kevin, I did not get an answer from Adobe no.

The only solution I have is obviously to empty disc cache, cache memory, etc, the basics. Also downloading new version, previous version, and redoing those clearing steps over and over. It eventually stopped giving me that message. Not sure it's the best solution however as it is frustrating and time consuming.

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Adobe Employee ,
Mar 03, 2017 Mar 03, 2017

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Hi CharlieG,

Did you ever get assistance from Adobe Support for your issue? Please let us know the outcome so that we know you're OK and for the benefit of others.

Thanks,
Kevin

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 04, 2017 Mar 04, 2017

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Hi Kevin, I did not get an answer from Adobe no.

The only solution I have is obviously to empty disc cache, cache memory, etc, the basics. Also downloading new version, previous version, and redoing those clearing steps over and over. It eventually stopped giving me that message. Not sure it's the best solution however as it is frustrating and time consuming.

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Adobe Employee ,
Mar 06, 2017 Mar 06, 2017

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Thanks for the feedback Charlie G.

Kevin

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New Here ,
Mar 09, 2017 Mar 09, 2017

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Hi Kevin,

I'm having exactly the same problem as Charlie. I have reinstalled AE and purged the memory and image cache a hundred times.

I am running the latest version of AE from my creative cloud account and this is my system information:

System.png

This is my AE memory allocation:

Memory.png

As I was typing this message AE crashed on me with the attached selection of error messages.

Error6.pngError5.pngError4.pngError3.pngError2.pngError1.png

Please can you help?

Many thanks

Peter

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Adobe Employee ,
Mar 09, 2017 Mar 09, 2017

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Hi Peter,

What kind of footage and effects are you using?

Thanks,
Kevin

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New Here ,
Mar 09, 2017 Mar 09, 2017

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Thanks for getting back to me.

This time it was just text within AE. Previously it was simple 2D

Illustrator imports.

No effects.

Peter

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LEGEND ,
Mar 13, 2017 Mar 13, 2017

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What renderer is your composition set to use?

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New Here ,
Mar 16, 2017 Mar 16, 2017

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I'm not even rendering yet. This is under RAM preview.

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LEGEND ,
Mar 16, 2017 Mar 16, 2017

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peterw24682225  wrote

I'm not even rendering yet. This is under RAM preview.

Previews in AE are rendered and stored in RAM. Heck, even just to see something in your composition panel, AE needs to render something.

Therefore, what renderer your composition is using matters immensely.

There are three options: Ray-traced (a way to create 3d geometry from AE-native layers - technically obsolete, but still present for compatability reasons), Cinema 4D (for creating 3d geometry from native AE layers - like the ray-traced renderer, but without the GPU requirements), and the classic renderer.

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New Here ,
Mar 16, 2017 Mar 16, 2017

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Sorry, I see what you mean.

The answer to you question is: Classic

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New Here ,
Mar 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017

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I'm having the trouble again. Any news on a fix?

Many thanks,

Peter

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New Here ,
Apr 26, 2021 Apr 26, 2021

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does anyone here have an answer?  CC 2021 has never NOT given me this error message. and ues, i've tried everything and even bought new drives in. hopes of getting rid of this consant error.  It is beyond annoying! 

 

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New Here ,
May 05, 2017 May 05, 2017

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plzz can you help me i was trying to edit an video but when i just start my after effect and put my files on it its saying Schermafbeelding 2017-05-05 om 19.52.44.pngplzz can you help me idk what the problem is??

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LEGEND ,
May 08, 2017 May 08, 2017

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In your case, it might be something screwy in that particular video file. Try transcoding it with the Adobe Media Encoder into a production codec (like Cineform or DNxHD) and then import the new file into After Effects. Please let us know if it works.

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LEGEND ,
Jun 13, 2017 Jun 13, 2017

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For persistent causes of this issue, today's bug fix update should solve it.

See the Adobe blog post for more information: A June 2017 Update to After Effects CC Is Now Available | Creative Cloud blog by Adobe

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New Here ,
Jun 16, 2017 Jun 16, 2017

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I'm having the exact same problem as the original poster, exact situation and I've tried all the same potential fixes. Nothing works. New update didn't help at all. It's been happening every now and then with a variety of projects actually, it's infuriating. The only thing I can think of is it's happening with a comp with Red Giant Universe on it, but it's happened before without it, and doesn't get fixed if I remove it.

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New Here ,
Jun 17, 2017 Jun 17, 2017

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Fixed it! Preferences > Memory, and make sure "Reduce Cache size when system is low on memory" is NOT checked. Worked for me anyway when absolutely nothing else did.

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New Here ,
Apr 24, 2021 Apr 24, 2021

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Thank you! this is the only thing that worked for this issue!!

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New Here ,
Jun 23, 2021 Jun 23, 2021

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Thank you for posting this! 4 years after your comment, and it still worked for CC 2021. Huge relief to have this solved.

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New Here ,
Jun 08, 2022 Jun 08, 2022

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You saved my day in 2022 with yer 2017 reply!

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New Here ,
Jul 19, 2017 Jul 19, 2017

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I am also only using text with After Effects and getting the error, with the classic renderer. However, I can avoid the error message if I begin my preview from 00:00:01 instead of 00:00:00.

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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2020 Jan 24, 2020

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Try to stretch your Work Area more than 2 frames.

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New Here ,
Nov 10, 2020 Nov 10, 2020

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work area timeline screenshot.png

 

Thanks for the comment. It was hard to find the "work area", but I noticed the blue bar on top of the timeline and it says 'work area'.  I stretched it and the message no longer showed up!  🙂

 

 

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 27, 2021 Jan 27, 2021

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Yes! This! This guy's advice is the absolute best. Stretch your "work area" (cuz that's what it's called, apparently) at least two frames (though I reckon God won't smite you down for sneaking another two or three or twenty seven in there) and then try playing it. This worked for me where the :: Edit->Preferences->Memory and Performance->[Empty (or checked) box] Reduce cache size when syste is low on memory :: didn't work. Give this a try!

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