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After Effects CS6: ***Layer Cache Indicators*** issues

May 28, 2012 10:39 AM

I guess i jumped the guns too soon on the CS6 upgrade (from CS5.5 Production Premium) as I've discovered quite a major issue with one of the selling points of this product.

 

The issue is with After Effects CS6, as enabling Layer Cache Indicators is not available. You can only select to show the global cache indicators (thats the render blue/green line on top of all the layers), but i really wanted to see the render bar for each of the layers, which was heavily advertized upon release of CS6.

 

Adobe, you have to fix this asap, release an update. This feature is available in CS5.5 (I've checked) but no where can i find to enable it in CS6.

 

PLEASE HELP!

1522 Views   9 Replies   Latest reply: Todd_Kopriva, May 28, 2012 7:47 PM
 
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  • Bob Levine
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    1. Bob Levine,
    May 22, 2012 7:33 AM   in reply to DimitryNov
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    Please post in the AE forum.

     

     

     

    Bob

     
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    2. Mylenium,
    May 22, 2012 9:38 PM   in reply to DimitryNov
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    Select the layers, hold down Ctrl and hit the Show Cache Indicators option - magic!

     

    Mylenium

     
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    3. DimitryNov,
    May 22, 2012 10:17 PM   in reply to Mylenium
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    Thank you! My CS6 experience bebside this hiccup has been excellent so far! Cheers!

     
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  • jacob.danell
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    4. jacob.danell,
    May 24, 2012 6:16 AM   in reply to Mylenium
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    Can you please take a printscreen or something? I really don't find it in CS6 and here is the only place I have found any instruction about it for cs6.

    EDIT: Oh, sorry... i saw now that this was for windows and I'm on a Mac, but maybe you still know where to find it?

     
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    5. DimitryNov,
    May 24, 2012 6:29 AM   in reply to jacob.danell
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    Its the Timeline panel menu, screen.jpgthat yellow button on the top-right corner within the timeline. That opens up a menu, hold CNTRL + select show cache and the render bars going to appear on each of the layers. This should work for MAC i think.

     
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  • jacob.danell
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    6. jacob.danell,
    May 24, 2012 6:54 AM   in reply to DimitryNov
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    Thanks! The way to do it on Mac was to go the the menu and press "show  global cache indicators" while holding CMD and you would activate Layer Cache Indicators. (Leaving this information if an other Mac user would find this). Thanks!

     
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  • Todd_Kopriva
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    7. Todd_Kopriva,
    May 28, 2012 10:41 AM   in reply to jacob.danell
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    The layer cache indicators are undocumented, unsupported, and untrustworthy in After Effects CS6. Do not use them. They will hinder performance enormously.

     
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  • DimitryNov
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    8. DimitryNov,
    May 28, 2012 6:10 PM   in reply to Todd_Kopriva
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    Wow really Todd???? Then whats with all the fuss around the layer cache at NAB2012? So far i havent notices any performance drop, but i dont enable it all the time, just to see which layers have been cached already and i turn it off when working. What other features would you recommend that would improve performance in the whole Production Premium CS6 suit?

     
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    9. Todd_Kopriva,
    May 28, 2012 7:47 PM   in reply to DimitryNov
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    I was referring specifically to the feature of showing the layer cache indicators. Forcing After Effects to calculate and redraw the cache indicators for every layer is very expensive.

     
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