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dexj29289924
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May 11, 2023
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Timeline speed Animation Photshop

  • May 11, 2023
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Hi Everybody,

I am trying to create a simple animation with the timeline animation tool in Photshop. Super simple an object moves from left to right, Headline blends ijn etc.

The play speed within the timeline doesnt match the play speed when I render the video. So the timing doesnt match, as the playspeed in the timeline is like slow motion, any idea on how to switch it to real time speed?

 

Thanks Felix

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Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 12, 2023

If this is a video timeline (not a frame animation), click to open the panel menu and select Allow Frame Skipping to enable it. If the animation plays smoothly after that, then it means Photoshop could not play it back in real time if it has to play every frame at the current frame rate. So, Allow Frame Skipping is not frame-accurate, but at least you get to see the animation in real time.

 

 

The reason others are suggesting using video editing or motion graphics software is that those typically have much more advanced timeline playback: Better GPU acceleration, better RAM and storage caching, better optimization for current hardware encoders, etc. which make real-time timeline playback easier to do.

Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 12, 2023

You may need to switch to using After Effects where the animation in the Timeline loads into RAM for Preview and we can monitor the Info Panel to make sure we're getting real-time playback.  It also has options to reduce the resolution to favor smooth motion if needed.

 

You can import your Photoshop layers into After Effects as a Composition, but not the Photoshop Timeline.

Mylenium
Legend
May 11, 2023

Update your graphics driver, check your hardware acceleration. This stuff is heavily dependent on GPU acceleration. Otherwise move on to real video tools that may handle this better.

 

Mylenium