"Cached Preview Needs 2 or More Frames to Playback" in After Effects

[Saqerfice5ED1]

I've been editing a video for a day and this morning when I went to play "Cached Preview Needs 2 or More Frames to Playback" pops up. I've tried purging and putting it in Quater or Custom but nothing works.I've tired putting more ram in but whenever I change it and look back it goes right back to 0 and I don't know how to fix.. 

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[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

Make sure you did not accidentally set the work area (b and n keys) to one frame. It is easy to do. You can also set the Preview Panel to ignore the work area.

[Ehren6]

This worked for me!! Even though my work area wasnt one frame apart, I just made the work area bigger and my preview was working again

[Muftaudeen31353682e31j]

I had the same issue, and had done everything as stated in the schoolofmotion blog, problem still persisted.

This worked for me

[Gadi24024143j8my]

Thanks so much, this is the tip I needed... that was driving me crazy!

[nishu_kush · Accepted solution]

Hi Saqerfice5ED1,

Sorry for your issue.

Please check out the following article: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/cached-preview

Let us know if it helps.

Thanks,

Nishu

[Saqerfice5ED1]

Hey, this worked thank you for this.

[d-korolkov]

All those references to RAM issues regarding this problem is worthless. 
Turn off Continuously Rasterize on the layer with some raster effects (e.g. Pin tool) to avoid this issue.