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May 18, 2022
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  • May 18, 2022
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Timeline won't play back for longer than 3 seconds, it keeps looping back on the 2022 version of AE (Version 22.4)

PC specs::

Core i7 (2.70GHz)

8GB Ram

Windows 10 pro

 

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Conrad_C
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Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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May 18, 2022

What frame size are you trying to preview? The real time preview is cached in RAM, so if there isn’t a lot of unused RAM, the preview will be short. 8GB RAM is not a lot for After Effects work (one reason I got 32GB RAM was for After Effects previewing, although more than that is better if you can afford it), and RAM will fill up sooner if working with larger frame sizes.

 

Ultimately you can get longer previews by putting more RAM into the computer, but until that happens, you can fit more preview frames into RAM by using the Preview panel to lower the resolution and frames required for the preview (not the actual composition), such as skipping every other frame.

tiffanyl14655871
tiffanyl14655871
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August 4, 2022

Hi Conrad

I'm having the same issue.  I have 64GB RAM.

I'm using dynamic link from Character Animator files.

I opened past Ae files where I didn't have an issue, now I have issues with all my other projects.  Do you think this has something to do with the latest version (which I'm running) v22.5

Thanks

tiffanyl14655871
tiffanyl14655871
Inspiring
August 4, 2022

I should also mention, I have down all the other troubleshooting things like empting cache, changing the cache folder location, allocating more ram to Ae than other Adobe programs etc...  Thanks

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