unable to get real-time playback of animation when I adjust the Animation Curves
by JesseS
on
May 9, 2006 at 6:37:51 pm
Hay All,
I am unable to get real-time playback of animation when I adjust the Animation Curves in the view port. I have to wait for it to re-cache the frames in the (cache Frame indicator bar). I set the in and out points for only 100 frames. I also checked my Cache preferences and it is set to 87%.
So my question is how do I get real-time playback of animation when I adjust the Animation Curves in the view port; is it a setting issue or a workflow issue in side Combustion 4?
My computer is:
* Dell Perecision 380
* XP Prp
* Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.60GHz (2 CPUs)
* 2G of RAM
* 512MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
Re: unable to get real-time playback of animation when I adjust the Animation Curves by Jeff Brown on May 9, 2006 at 7:28:43 pm
Take another look at the demo; it is re-calculating frames after curve adjustments. You'll notice that whenever Ken makes a curve adjustment, the grey band below the playback marker disappears, and frames have to be re-calculated. The underlying composites are still cached, so the render is quick, but a render it is. Also, take note that the animation Ken is working on is 2 seconds long, so things are not remaining real-time.
In other words, I doubt there's anything wrong with your setup.
Re: unable to get real-time playback of animation when I adjust the Animation Curves by Kenneth La Rue on May 9, 2006 at 7:45:10 pm
Hi Jeff is right, whenever you adjust anything or any parameter within Combustion it will have to rerender the change to RAM. The underlying layers and operators will not need to be re-cached just the layer or operator's keyframe you are adjusting.
Re: unable to get real-time playback of animation when I adjust the Animation Curves by JesseS on May 11, 2006 at 10:01:07 pm
Yep, thanks for pointing that out to me.
With this in mind, I blocked out just 2 seconds of my project and it still is not as fast as Ken's Demo.
So, is it that I have a slow computer?
My computer is:
* Dell Perecision 380
* XP Prp
* Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.60GHz (2 CPUs)
* 2G of RAM
* 512MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
More info:
My project is a simple slide show with 16 images BMPs at 1024x768 with an animated cursor TIFF with an alpha & is 20x20 pixels & animates for about the same time as in Ken's Demo.
Re: unable to get real-time playback of animation when I adjust the Animation Curves by JesseS on May 13, 2006 at 1:12:15 am
mmhh, do you use software or OpenGL for viewport rendering?
--- In Preferences-> OpenGL-> Global Settings (Use Software OpenGL is checked)
* Am I looking in the right place here?
What was your Frame Rate during re-rendering?
--- is 29.97
Re: unable to get real-time playback of animation when I adjust the Animation Curves by JesseS on May 23, 2006 at 7:15:04 pm
Hey All,
I am able to get realtime play back by setting playback in Medium mode fixes the issue of realtime playback; it plays great and I can edit the "Tangent Handels" with out them jummping all over the place.
My question now is; what do I need to do to get realtime playback in Best Mode?
