Throttle-n-Purge

Allows quick access to switch between 8, 16 and 32 bits per channel as well as turning the multiprocessing preference on and off. There’s also a version that gives you a button to purge the image caches.

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Throttle-n-Purge

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A dockable UI for quickly accessing preferences to speed up After Effects. Change project bit-depth, multiprocessing, and idle rendering as well as quickly purging the image caches.

Starting with After Effects CS4, there is a new multi-processing throttle system that manages how many CPU’s are to be left free for other applications. This script also adds access to a little known hidden preference that allows you to set the quality of the Toggle Pixel Aspect Correction button in the Comp View. (Please note that After Effects needs to be restarted after changing the PAR quality)

The package includes both Throttle and Throttle-n-Purge.

Version history

1.5 Made CS5 compatible – 05/2010
1.3 Fixed PAR Quality bug if it has never been selected and is missing from prefs – 11/2009
1.2 Updated for CS4, added PAR Correction Quality – 11/2008
1.1 Added 8.0.2 prefs – 08/08
1.0 Original Release – 10/07

: Throttle-n-Purge UI

: Throttle UI

Last updated May 10th, 2010
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Tags: Color Depth, CS3, CS4, CS5, Multiprocessing, Preferences, Purge, Throttle

Lloyd Alvarez

About the author

I am a freelance art director and After Effects artist in New York City. I aim to provide high quality scripts that provide clever solutions for After Effects workflows.

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6 Comments

shankar (Reply to this comment)
December 24, 2007

really superb
freezen (Reply to this comment)
June 9, 2008

ALT-clicking on the 8-bit number at the bottom of the project window does the same
Lloyd (Reply to this comment)
June 9, 2008

yes, but it takes 2 option clicks to get from 8 to 32. The script is all about streamlining your workflow
mike behrens (Reply to this comment)
August 30, 2008

Thanks!

I actually came to this site to learn how to write scripts so that I could make a script just like this.
jammarlibre (Reply to this comment)
September 28, 2008

I browse and saw you website and I found it very interesting.Thank you for the good work, greetings
Leon (Reply to this comment)
July 13, 2010

Hello, ima running this script in cs5 mac, and it dosent work,it open de script debugger but nothing happen, if there is a way to solve this tell me please. Very awesome comunity, writing from Venezuela.

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