Re: Cannot Standard Preview - Occasionally via different projects

Here's the short version: never use the space bar. Not ever. I won't go into the reasons why it's happening to you because there are too many of them and too little time to write them down.

I'm not kidding -- space bar preview is the WORST way to preview in AE. Why? Because AE isn't designed for realtime playback. It has never worked like an editing application because it was never built to edit. It was designed to do motion graphics and compositing, things that editing applications aren't designed to do.

Thus, people have gotten used to RAM Previewing. I recommend that you look at the AE Help section called Views and Previews to learn the many, many ways to preview in AE... and forget the space bar option.

There's no use complaining that you can't do it, you just have to get used to it. The rest of the world has gotten used to it, and now it's your turn.

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA