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loading the whole green bar

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December 12, 2020
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Greetings,

My video card is not compatible with AE I'm suffering

from my video playback being freezed.

So Is there a feature in AE were It can automatically load the whole green bar of a video first even if I'm not playing my video?

So after it finishes loading there will not be any clip disconnection when playing & working on my video so I can edit my video comfortably without interruption?
Just similar to Youtube stream where it loads the whole clips bar at first.

Thanks,

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Roland Kahlenberg

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AE's 'greenbar' is a visual indicator of rendered frames that have been cached to disk. This disk is the one you select in AE's Preferences>Media & DIsk Cache, in the Enable Disk Cache section..

When you initiate a Preview and you have rendered frames on your disk cache which are required by the Preview, AE will transfer those frames from disk to RAM. AS this happens, the greenbar SHOULD turn to blue; with a bluebar designating frames in RAM. A fast Disk Cache helps to initiate Previews quickly. Hence, other than your GPU, you will want to look at a fast Disk Cache. An SSD with USB 3.0 or USB 3.1 Gen 1 IO is often sufficient to create a seamless (no-waiting) experience when initiating a Preview when frames required frames have been cached to disk.

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imagenry_bAuthor

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Greetings Roland, & thanks for your detailed comments

Actually I have an internal SSD drive installed as my main drive.

It's specification is:

San Disk SSD - model SDSSDA960G - 8.13 GB size

You mention "An SSD with USB 3.0 or USB 3.1 Gen 1 IO is often sufficient to create a seamless (no-waiting) experience when initiating a Preview" So is this optimization is effective on the preview only?

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Byron Cortez

Community Expert

I wish it were as simple as that, but it turns out that that green bar fills up like a RAM preview and each action you perform must be renewed to present in real time what you have done and for that you need enough RAM installed in your system. In order for it to turn green, you necessarily have to first make a playback with the space bar or press the zero key (0) of the numeric keyboard, however, it turns green so you can preview and not to work. Also, remember that if you are editing a video you must do it in Premiere Pro where you can do it more fluidly depending on the capacity of the GPU.

Byron.

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imagenry_bAuthor

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Thanks Byron & Adobe support,

It didn't work well because my GPU is old with it's feature.

but I tried softwares like Davinci Resolve & Filmora Pro & they're able to preview

my video seamlessly with no hangout or freeze.

So what's is the difference with AE anyway in term of playback?

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imagenry_bAuthor

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After Effects is for motion graphics and effects and it treats all source footage as if it's uncompressed, loading each frame into RAM for playback in the Footage panel, Composition panel and the Layer panel.

While your graphics card does need to meet the system requirements for After Effects, the Preview depends on how quickly your system can load each frame into RAM. If you choose to continue to work in AE, fewer faster cores are more likely to help than a new GPU.

Have you tried lowering the Comp Resolution? Try changing from Full to Half or Quarter. You're trading image quality for playback, but you should get both faster and longer Previews.

Have you tried editing in Premiere Pro first? Premiere Pro will use the file's CODEC for decompression and is much more likely to play your video files smoothly. Of course, this depends on how well matched your video file format is to what your computer can play and your corresponding Sequence settings. You can copy and paste from a Premiere Pro Sequence to an After Effects Comp or while in Premiere Pro right-click and choose Replace with After Effects Composition.

While in AE, you can use Edit Original to view your video files outside of After Effects in the default player. Option double-click (Mac) or Alt double-click (Windows) is one way to do this.

Yes you're right PR has far more smooth performance than AE I wish AE has a special codec for decompression.

However Is there any external codec plugin for AE that allows me to play smoothly.

I had tried all of what you mention regarding cleaning catches, purging RAM, changing comp res

for 1/2 & 1/4 Thus my playback was enhanced slightly but if any effect will be applied there isn't any hope.

You mention that it's better to upgrade my cores instead of GPU as far as I understand right?

I'll see about that & upgrade if needed.

So just for final checkup I would like to add my PC specifications & here it is:

* Windows 10 Pro

* Dell OptiPlex 9020

* Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

* Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 OK

* NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

* NVIDIA High Definition Audio

What do you think?

Mylenium

Legend

I suggest you read the online help on how previews and the cache actually work. That aside, even with everything cached to disk things may simply not play smoothly if your system is that weak.

Mylenium

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imagenry_bAuthor

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Ok,

It seems that my system can't handle AE tasks that goes also for AP.

I might upgrade my video card.

Thanks for your support,

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