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Improving playback with Draft 3D

Improving playback with Draft 3D - After Effects Tutorial

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Improving playback with Draft 3D

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- Inside of After Effects, there are several switches that will affect playback quality and other essential options. One of the most important one is Draft 3D, which will allow a computer, particularly an older machine, to render 3D elements with less accuracy. This can really speed up preview times. Here's how it works. In this particular comp, you'll notice that we have a 3D camera and a light and that our objects here are being drawn in 3D space with cast shadows. Now, this is a relatively fast modern computer, so that drawing is going pretty quickly. And as we animate through there, it's okay in speed, but it's not perfect. What we can do here is we can actually change this so it goes much faster. If I click the button here, it's going to render things in draft quality. Now, in this case, what that does is disable some of the options, such as 3D lights. So in draft mode here, we now get the position movement in 3D space, but a lot of the other elements that are much more…

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