Novelectro wrote .....I am 100% new to AE. .....I hit play and wait 10 seconds, and the clip moves the tiniest bit, wait 10 more seconds and it moves the tiniest bit again. Since you're so new, here's a shocker -- don't hit play! You see, AE can't play anything. It PREVIEWS. It doesn't work like a video editing application. It renders out a comp's contents to memory and cache, and THEN it'll play whatever it can, as fast as it can. But not faster than the comp's frame rate. So try two things: 1) hit the zero key on the numeric keypad, wait, and see what happens. 2) look at the views and previews section of AE Help. There are a lot of strategies for speeding up previews, and you'll need 'em -- AE sometimes has a tough time previewing in real time.
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