Extremely Slow Preview in After Effects CC 2017

[hafsan4260580]

Hello,

I have an hp z800 machine with the following specs.

1. Processor: Intel Xeon X5660 @ 2.8 GHz ( 2 Processors)

2. Installed Ram: 32 GB

3. 256 GB SSD for Windows and a Separate 120 GB SSD for Disk Cache

4. GPU  Nvidia Quadro 4000 (2GB)

With this configuration I am unable to preview properly in After Effects. Please click on the link below, I have recorded a screen capture of the actual problem:

Dropbox - after effects preview too slow .mp4

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thank you.

[defaultwwv4z5ie3i7t]

Hi

Ive had a problem where i have a very powerful machine, and the preview was so "slow"

However its not slow, its a setting in the preveiws panel. 

Open preview

Half way down it says skip

Is that set to 5 like mine was?? so it only gives you every 5th frame!! haha! 

spent months working with this. How the bloody hell can I see how smooth something is when this is set.

SET IT TO ZERO

Bingo... smooth playback. every frame. Not jumpy.

Good luck everyone

[nick25040818kqoi]

I had the same issues on 2017 Version, and I thought It was my hardware (which is a very powerfull workstation) but then I realised that I was working with the wrong video files - AE does not like AVI FILES !!! after converting to mp4 it made a huge difference!