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777bbbbq
Inspiring
June 24, 2023
Question

Play button doesn't play.

  • June 24, 2023
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When I click on the play button nothing happens.  I have refreshed the scene. I have exited and re-entered.  I have a 2-minute scene that was playing fine and suddenly it will not play at all.  Any ideas on why it will no longer play? Thanks.

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777bbbbqAuthor
Inspiring
June 24, 2023

Okay, it started playing again for no apparent reasons. Hmm.

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dtull-adobeCommunity Manager
Community Manager
June 26, 2023

I have seen a few odd situations where the play button wouldn't respond and they've all been somehow related to audio playback being in a weird state. Irritating and devilishly hard to reproduce the issue to look into fixing it. 😬


Mentioning it only in case it gives you some ideas for what might have caused it (let me know if you find such clues, I'd love to corner it) or at least a way to shake it loose if it happens again.

Dan Tull

Adobe Character Animator

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dtull-adobeCommunity Manager
Community Manager
June 27, 2023

It sounds like the work area for your animation does not extend the length of your timeline. Try moving the play head to the end of your animation, right-click on the timeline, and select "Set Work Area End to Playhead."


Yeah, the default behavior of an active work area is to loop the content of the work area once playback hits it, so if you had a really short work area with no appreciable animation content in it right after the spot where you started playing, it would just loop that nothingness and seem like it was just not playing at all. (especially if you are zoomed out far enough that the work area is effectively zero length in terms of pixel dimensions)

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