From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 11 3D Space
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Fast previews in CS6 and later - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 11 3D Space
Fast previews in CS6 and later
- [Instructor] After Effects CS6 added a ray-traced 3D renderer as an option for your compositions. Unfortunately, this renderer can be quite slow. Particularly if you've cranked up the quality or if you don't have an authorized Nvidia card that provides CUDA acceleration for your ray-traced calculations. As a result, Adobe overhauled the fast previews options for 3D compositions. I'd like to run through those in this sidebar, and then open up my composition ray-trace seven Fast Previews starter. It includes an environment layer identified by this little icon, two extruded and beveled 3D text layers, they have some soft reflections in their faces as well as some transparency, and then an ordinary camera and light. Along the bottom of the composition panel is a fast previews button that provides access to these different preview options. As of After Effects CS6, these first three options rely on CUDA acceleration from an improved Nvidia graphics card. I happen to have a Quadro 4000…
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