Every time I open AE, passing a while, CTI AND PTI just stop moving, so the preview keeps playing, but only PTI and CTI don't move, I reset AE, my computer, preferences , but nothing is working permanently. Can anyone help?
Nearly 3 years later, this is still an issue for me. Same as before, regardless of AE version - it's been an issue for at least the past 6 months I'd guess, and I always have both the latest versions - beta and public release - installed, and it's the same on both. And I keep my PC (Windows 10) and Nvidia drivers updated, but this makes no difference. I tried binning my prefs before, and that also didn't help.
It's the same problem as before: I load up AE and the CTI/PTI work perfectly, and I hop back and forth between AE and PPro (always the same version - eg. if I'm working on the beta of AE, I'll work on the beta of PPro) regularly, tweaking things...then after maybe 20 minutes, I'll notice that, during a preview playing back (the actual comp plays fine in the comp window):
Neither the CTI nor the PTI (red line) move
Nothing appears in the Info window - none of the usual info about fps, etc. This is what I see while playback is actually happening:
Once I stop playback (eg. by pressing the spacebar), the video in the comp viewer window stops as expected, but the CTI remains wherever it was when playback started, eg. if I have a 10sec comp, and I set the CTI to frame 0, started playback, and stopped it after 7secs, the CTI remains on frame 0. When AE is in this state, pressing spacebar, numpad 0, etc. does nothing at all. I can move the CTI using page up/down, but the comp viewer window remains static, on the same frame (eg. 6 secs in this case). The ONLY way to update things is to drag the CTI with the mouse, or open another comp and go back to my original comp. Or quit and relaunch AE - that fixes it for a while.
AE Version 24.1.0 (Build 78) and AE Beta 24.3.0 (Build 8 )
Sadly, purging does not work for me. This is a problem that has only got WORSE as updates have been pushed out. It happens on both the beta and public release versions. It only happens when using linked comps with Premiere Pro.
I also have this issue. It must be a bug which they urgently need to fix. The only way I can fix it is by quitting and reopening the program. I have found that it is most likely to occur when switching between AE and Premiere, with dynamicly linked comps.
I solved this problem by increasing my RAM of 8 to 16 GB. I mean, the problem isn't 100% solved, but it has decreased a lot, almost nil. I think if I increase my RAM even more this problem will be solved completely.
Hope this helps you and anyone else with this problem.
I also have the same issue. I'm on 22.1.0x34. I can hit spacebar, the comp plays back OK, but the CTI remains static. When I then hit spacebar again to stop, the CTI remains static...for example:
I have a 10sec comp
I move the CTI to frame 0
Hit spacebar...it plays back OK, the timeline is green
I hit spacebar; it stops playing
CTI is still at frame 0
I press Page Down repeatedly, Page Up too, to move the CTI. CTI moves, but the viewer does not update. CTI is on frame 10, viewer is showing frame 57.
I then scrub the CTI with the mouse, and everything updates nicely.
I can then hit the spacebar again, and playback continues from where the CTI is. If, however, I hit spacebar to play, then spacebar to stop, then hit spacebar to play again, nothing happens - no playback at all. I have to scrub the CTI with the mouse for AE to get its act together so I can then play again using spacebar.
I think that AE doesn't realise that it's stopped playing. If I look at the Preview panel, the 'play' icon goes from normal to 'playing' when I first hit the spacebar to start playback. When I then hit the spacebar again to stop playback, the icon remains in its 'playing' state. From then on, any spacebar hits are ignored until I scrub the CTI, which makes the play icon revert to its 'stopped' state.