Adobe After Effects CS6, Upgrade, Win, EN 65174285 User Manual
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Adobe After Effects CS6
What’s New
Top new features of Adobe After Effects CS6
Global Performance Cache
The Global Performance Cache feature is a revolution ”under the hood” that makes After Effects
faster and more responsive than ever before by taking full advantage of the power of your
computer’s hardware.
faster and more responsive than ever before by taking full advantage of the power of your
computer’s hardware.
Global Performance Cache comprises a set of technologies: a global RAM cache, a persistent disk
cache, and a new graphics pipeline.
cache, and a new graphics pipeline.
Global RAM cache
Adobe After Effects CS6 contains a vastly improved frame caching system that allows you to reuse
elements or play “what if” with various ideas without having to wait for a previously created frame
to re-render. For example, you can try a new idea, and then undo if you don’t like it, without any
penalty in productivity.
Adobe After Effects CS6 contains a vastly improved frame caching system that allows you to reuse
elements or play “what if” with various ideas without having to wait for a previously created frame
to re-render. For example, you can try a new idea, and then undo if you don’t like it, without any
penalty in productivity.
What is happening under the hood is that—within the limits of available memory—any frame of
a composition or layer inside an After Effects project that is the same as a previously rendered
and cached frame does not need to be re-rendered. Reusable frames are recognized anywhere on
the timeline, including when using loop expressions, time remapping, and copying then pasting
keyframes—not just on adjacent frames. Reusable frames are also recognized on duplicated layers
or duplicated compositions. Cached frames are restored after an undo/redo; cached frames are
also restored when a composition or layer is returned to a previous state, such as toggling a layer’s
visibility off and then back on.
a composition or layer inside an After Effects project that is the same as a previously rendered
and cached frame does not need to be re-rendered. Reusable frames are recognized anywhere on
the timeline, including when using loop expressions, time remapping, and copying then pasting
keyframes—not just on adjacent frames. Reusable frames are also recognized on duplicated layers
or duplicated compositions. Cached frames are restored after an undo/redo; cached frames are
also restored when a composition or layer is returned to a previous state, such as toggling a layer’s
visibility off and then back on.
Persistent disk cache
With After Effects CS6, you can reopen a project you were working on earlier, and your previously
rendered cache is still intact, ready for immediate preview playback and rendering. You can also
render and cache a composition’s work area to disk in the background while you continue to work.
With After Effects CS6, you can reopen a project you were working on earlier, and your previously
rendered cache is still intact, ready for immediate preview playback and rendering. You can also
render and cache a composition’s work area to disk in the background while you continue to work.
After Effects calculates if a frame cached to RAM would take less time to retrieve from disk than
to render again, and if so, it is also copied to a special user-defined disk cache. Upon opening a
project, the disk cache is scanned, looking for frames matching those in the project, and makes
them available again for immediate use without the need for re-rendering. This is particularly a
boon when you need to work on multiple projects during the course of the day or week.
to render again, and if so, it is also copied to a special user-defined disk cache. Upon opening a
project, the disk cache is scanned, looking for frames matching those in the project, and makes
them available again for immediate use without the need for re-rendering. This is particularly a
boon when you need to work on multiple projects during the course of the day or week.
Green bars indicate a composition has
been cached into RAM (above); blue
bars indicate it has been cached to disk
(right). When you open a project you
previously worked on, the composition
you previewed earlier displays a blue
disk-cache indicator bar, indicating that
those frames have been stored on disk
and are available for immediate use
without the need for re-rendering.