Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time
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Looking for some guidance on AE, as I'm not an expert with it at all.
To summarize, when attempting to preview an AE file, even after letting the file perform it's initial load, it is still not in real time for a large portion of the playback.
Anyone have any insight on what to adjust / investigate?
AE is allowed 50G of RAM of the 64GB the system has. The cache disk is targeting the C drive which is an SSD. (the secondary is a winchester thus avoiding that for testing).
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@DustinB3403 Back when I actually worked with AE a little bit, it was always wait for the preview window. It has to do a transcode for the preview window if I remember how it works. That takes time, no matter what hardware you throw at the system.
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@travisdh1 this is even after the preview loads that the playback slows down and then throws the red "NOT REAL TIME" warning that we're trying to address.
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@DustinB3403 said in After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@travisdh1 this is even after the preview loads that the playback slows down and then throws the red "NOT REAL TIME" warning that we're trying to address.
Well, I don't remember seeing that, so guess I'm no help.
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@travisdh1 You're not of no help, just that we've already seen that and knew about it.
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Check what kind of encoding you have on the source material you're editing.
It's possible that the machine is not powerful enough to do real time preview on that format.Could also that some new filter or effect is applied so the machine can't render it in real time.
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First thing to do would be to check some old files that worked fine before (on the same version) to determine if it is something that has changed, or if it's just that the demands are higher than the system can handle.
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So the off part is that even with allowing AE to use 50 GB of RAM for the preview and with the SSD disk cache the system isn't getting taxed.
At most 16GB get used
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@DustinB3403 said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
So the off part is that even with allowing AE to use 50 GB of RAM for the preview and with the SSD disk cache the system isn't getting taxed.
At most 16GB get used
Rendering has not much to do with RAM (as long as there is enough for the application).
CPU speed, GPU speed and disk speed. -
This I get, but it's all rendered out and even on subsequent plays (changing nothing) the preview is still horrible.
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@DustinB3403 sounds like a shitty GPU. You should probably be running AE on a windows box with a badass workstation GPU, works a charm.
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@RojoLoco said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@DustinB3403 sounds like a shitty GPU. You should probably be running AE on a windows box with a badass workstation GPU, works a charm.
Adobe recommends Windows for production use.
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@Pete-S said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@DustinB3403 said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
So the off part is that even with allowing AE to use 50 GB of RAM for the preview and with the SSD disk cache the system isn't getting taxed.
At most 16GB get used
Rendering has not much to do with RAM (as long as there is enough for the application).
CPU speed, GPU speed and disk speed.And GPU more than anything in modern apps.
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@scottalanmiller said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@RojoLoco said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@DustinB3403 sounds like a shitty GPU. You should probably be running AE on a windows box with a badass workstation GPU, works a charm.
Adobe recommends Windows for production use.
I know, and I laughed for a long time when they announced that.
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@RojoLoco said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@DustinB3403 sounds like a shitty GPU. You should probably be running AE on a windows box with a badass workstation GPU, works a charm.
This is on a PC with a GTX 1080 8GB of ram.
Also the preview gets loaded into RAM, and is off of the GPU. So it really should only matter when rendering. Not when on continued playback.
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@DustinB3403 said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@RojoLoco said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@DustinB3403 sounds like a shitty GPU. You should probably be running AE on a windows box with a badass workstation GPU, works a charm.
This is on a PC with a GTX 1080 8GB of ram.
Also the preview gets loaded into RAM, and is off of the GPU. So it really should only matter when rendering. Not when on continued playback.
And that is a gaming GPU. Our guy who does all the AE stuff here has a Dell Precision desktop with a FirePro something in it, made for doing video editing stuff more than gaming.
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@RojoLoco said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@DustinB3403 said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@RojoLoco said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@DustinB3403 sounds like a shitty GPU. You should probably be running AE on a windows box with a badass workstation GPU, works a charm.
This is on a PC with a GTX 1080 8GB of ram.
Also the preview gets loaded into RAM, and is off of the GPU. So it really should only matter when rendering. Not when on continued playback.
And that is a gaming GPU. Our guy who does all the AE stuff here has a Dell Precision desktop with a FirePro something in it, made for doing video editing stuff more than gaming.
This is true. .
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But it still only would make sense to cause this spike to "Not realtime" during preview if it was during the rendering operation to get the preview.
Not once it has rendered out.
(also I didn't build/buy/recommend any of the hardware)
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@DustinB3403 said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
But it still only would make sense to cause this spike to "Not realtime" during preview if it was during the rendering operation to get the preview.
Not once it has rendered out.
(also I didn't build/buy/recommend any of the hardware)
The hardware we use here is a Precision T5810, Xeon E5-1607 v3 @3.10gHz, FirePro W4100, 32GB RAM. The user has never had a complaint.
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@RojoLoco said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@scottalanmiller said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@RojoLoco said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:
@DustinB3403 sounds like a shitty GPU. You should probably be running AE on a windows box with a badass workstation GPU, works a charm.
Adobe recommends Windows for production use.
I know, and I laughed for a long time when they announced that.
It was always better on Windows, they just finally had to put their foot down because so many people claimed that they were getting Mac for Adobe and it's the most ridiculous claim as neither the vendor recommends it, nor does it run as well.
