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When the size of the cache reaches the Fusion Caching/Memory Limits setting found in the
Memory panel of the Preferences, then lower-priority cache frames are automatically discarded
to make room for new caching. You can keep track of the RAM cache usage via a percentage
indicator on the far right of the Status bar at the bottom of the Fusion window.
Displaying Cached Frames
All cached frames for the currently viewed node are indicated by a green line at the bottom of
the Time Ruler. Any green section of the Time Ruler should play back in real time.
The green lines indicate frames that have been cached for playback.
Temporarily Preserving the Cache When Changing Quality or Proxy Settings
If you toggle the composition’s quality settings or proxy options, the cache is not immediately
discarded. The green line instead turns red to let you know the cache is being preserved and
can be used again when you go back to the original level of quality or disable proxy mode.
However, if you play through those frames at the new quality or proxy settings, this preserved
cache is overwritten with a new cache at the current quality or proxy setting.
A red line indicates that cached frames from a different quality or proxy setting are being preserved.
There’s one exception to this, however. When you cache frames at the High Quality setting, and
you then turn off High Quality, the green frames won’t turn red. Instead, the High Quality
cached frames are used even though the HiQ setting has been disabled.
Toolbar
The toolbar, located underneath the Time Ruler, contains buttons that let you quickly add
commonly used nodes to the Node Editor. Clicking any of these buttons adds that node after
the currently selected node in the node tree, or adds an unconnected instance of that node if
no nodes are selected.
The toolbar has buttons for adding commonly used nodes to the Node Editor.
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