Playback in Adobe After Effects

Video Transcript

"Now, you can watch this in real time by doing what's called a Ram Preview. After Effects will not run in real time like say, Adobe Premier. What it does is it saves all the effects to your Ram, then plays it back from there. Because the, uh you know, you can imagine if you keep adding effects and effects and effects, it really starts chewing up the memory. So, it's very difficult to play back. Even on a fast machine, it's very difficult to play back in real time. But there are ways to play back and the time controls here, allow you to do a playback. But to do a, and this we're going to play it back now and you can see that it gives you a warning that it's not playing back in real time. It's giving you the frame rate, thirteen frames per second. But that's not real time."