Previewing anything with VAI is pure pain

[axymeus]

I’m not exaggerating. Here are a few issues I can find…

1. Place playhead at 3:09 and press “Mark In” to cut a segment. Playhead moves at 03:08.2 and the marked segment starts at 3:16.2
2. Render 5 seconds of preview: VAI can’t play the preview half second without stopping to either try to render additional frames past the preview (while the playhead is still within the prerendered area) or for nothing, just pausing an instant (not a performance issue, the UI switches back to a non-playing state before reverting).
3. Marks a segment and finally manages to play a render correctly: the loop restarts in the wrong place.
4. Clear segment marks: playhead moves at the beginning of the video (don’t touch the playhead please!).
5. Preview isn’t in sync with the original video, usually by a single frame, making comparisons impossible (hard to reproduce, but has happened a couple times).
6. Split view preview: when moving the separator, the right-most frame wobbles trying to move along with the separator, making comparisons difficult in this mode.

Besides #5 which is difficult to reproduce, everything else happens all the time, no matter the input (videos and image sequences alike).

[kyle.topazlabs]

Do you have the Live Render feature turned on in the Preferences Panel? If so, try turning that off and it should help with item 2.

For the others, I will try and replicate on our end and share with the team for investigation.

If you have screen recordings of any of these situations that will be helpful for them to see what you are seeing as well.

[axymeus]

I have disabled live render. #2 wasn’t exactly better but different. Now VAI is simply unable to play anything that was prerendered.

I have made a 2 minutes video highlighting all the above issues, what is the best way to send it to your team?