During the rendering and caching phase, frames are rendered and cached as fast as possible. When Preview Favors is set to Frame Rate, After Effects renders and caches frames until the available RAM is filled and then plays the cached frames in real time. This control is similar to choosing between RAM Preview and Standard Preview in previous versions of After Effects however, there are several differences in After Effects CC 2015 (13.5). Choosing this menu command gives the same result as pressing the Play/Stop button.Ĭhoose to optimize the caching and playback behavior for better Frame Rate performance or unlimited Length of preview. The Composition > Preview > Play Current Preview menu command is linked to the Play/Stop button. Pressing the Play button in this state will interrupt rendering and caching and play back the cached frames, and the Play button changes to the Stop icon. When you start a preview with Preview Favors set to Frame Rate, the Play button will change to a “cache and play” icon while frames are being rendered and cached. If you change Shortcut to Numpad 0 and this causes Play From to change to Start of Range, pressing the Play button will start preview from the beginning of the range. For example, if Shortcut is set to Spacebar and Play From is set to Current Time, pressing the Play button will start preview from the current time. This means the Play button’s behavior will change when you select a different Shortcut. Pressing the Play button will start a preview with the settings currently displayed in the Preview panel. Explicit action is required to stop a preview because previews are not interrupted while you modify a project or composition.If you choose to play audio, the audio stutters to maintain sync when the preview frame rate is slower than real time. A new preference allows you to choose whether to mute audio or to play audio. When the preview frame rate is slower than real time (for example, during caching), audio is muted by default.Audio can now play with all previews, regardless of how the preview was started.When frames can be cached faster than real time, the playback speed is limited to the real-time frame rate. When caching a preview, After Effects starts playback immediately.New range option: Work Area Extended By Current Time.New controls in the Preview panel allow you to configure preview behaviors per-keyboard shortcut: audio, looping, caching, range, and layer controls.Preview behaviors for the spacebar keyboard shortcut can now be configured.Spacebar now starts a preview that plays audio and optimizes frame caching for real-time playback.

The RAM Preview button has been removed from the Preview panel. The term “RAM Preview” is no longer used to describe a separate preview mode.

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