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cmatts
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February 17, 2022
Question

Jittery movement when scrubbing in After Effects 2022

  • February 17, 2022
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Feel like i shoudl start a new thread bc this is older.


having similar issue.

ram previewed comp - scrubbing is all jittery bouncing btwn frames out ouf order.
ram playback is smooth.

if i use full screen preview - that screen's crubbing is smooth d

tried turning of gpu/metal rendering to sofware only>

tried turning of mask and path viibiluty
tried turningon adptive resolution on / off.
tried changing prevew size to fixed 100% or 200% or 50%.
purged ram, changed montior resoultion and refresh

ae 2022 and beta
os x 10.15.7
maxed out 2017 imac pro - 18core, 256ram 16gb vram

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cmattsAuthor
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March 18, 2022

so i guess theres no solution to this.

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cmattsAuthor
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March 18, 2022

trying to stablize footage-and having it shake as i scrub through makes it even harder

 

Rameez_Khan
Rameez_Khan
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February 22, 2022

Hi again, cmatts@cmatts.com.

 

I see you have "Display Color Management" turned on. Can you try turning it off and see if that fixes it?

Thanks,

Rameez

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cmattsAuthor
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February 22, 2022

that doesnt really change anything

the jittery ness is in both ae 2020 and the betas

I seem to be able to avoid it under specific secenerio - if do no do any scrubbing thought the time line before i do a ram preview- then its fine. If i move the current time indicator and then ram preview it bounces around

 

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cmattsAuthor
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February 22, 2022

I also tried Hide layer controls - from this thread

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/after-effects-scrubbing-through-timeline-is-lagging-playback-is-fine-what-s-causing-it/td-p/10077895


but thats not giving me consistant results.

Rameez_Khan
Rameez_Khan
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February 17, 2022

Hi cmatts@cmatts.com,

 

Sorry for your issue!

I understand that preview is jittery only when you scrub the timeline but the playback is fine. Is that correct?

  • Can you go to Composition Settings > 3D Renderer and see which renderer is selected?
  • Are you facing the same issue after reinstalling the app?

 

Thanks,

Rameez

 

 

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cmattsAuthor
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February 17, 2022

...is jittery only when you scrub the timeline but the playback is fine. Is that correct?


yes

 if i set a full screen output - that output is fine while in ae its jittery interface..



yes same issue after reinstalling app.
classic 3d rendering and no 3d layers. It's really basic type animations over footage, no reason for it to be jittery esp after ram preview.
I can send you a screen recording but not on this public forum.

uploading a screen recording.

nishu_kush
nishu_kush
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February 21, 2022

Thanks for the screen recording.

What happens if you disable Hardware Accelerated Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels in After Effects Preferences > Display? Does that bring any change? Also, are you using any third-party plug-ins?

Let us know.

 

Thanks,

Nishu

Rameez_Khan
Rameez_Khan
Legend
February 17, 2022

I've branched your post into a new discussion so that we can help you better.

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cmattsAuthor
Known Participant
February 17, 2022

thank you.

 

I also uninstalled and reinstlalled 2022 this morning.

 

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cmattsAuthor
Known Participant
February 17, 2022

for further clarity - the issue has been with 1080p prores footage -
and its not that is skipping frames, its doing something like this

frame 1
frame 4
frame 2
frame 5
frame 3
frame 6
frame 4
frame 8
- even moving slowly though timeline.

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cmattsAuthor
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February 17, 2022

also tried turning off mucury playback when not using full screen preview

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cmattsAuthor
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February 17, 2022

I also had this problem for months on my 16: i9 mbp - 64gb ram os 10.15.7

which is why i bought the imac pro - but only few weeks after the new maching things started again.

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