Answers.Body: <p>Quarter of 4K is still 1080. Depending on your rig it still might chug thru playback. I would look into proxies as they are pretty quick to set up and would drastically improve workability.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I'll second looking into setting up a proxy workflow. 
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX18PMX-nS4    (AE) 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w7RIdACweQ   (Premiere)
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Answers.Text: Good point but this was not the case. Even 1080p footage was still being shown at full 1080 instead of being scaled downwards.
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Body: <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/InGmu.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/InGmu.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a>I have the preview resolution set to quarter, frame skip set to 5 and yet After Effects is previewing at full resolution constantly. I have tried changing the settings through the sidebar and the bar under the preview.</p>
  
  <p>I have purged the RAM, cache, etc. several times and even re-opening the program does not help.</p>
  
  <p>The preview is indeed set to 'Adaptive resolution'. This is making the preview playback impossible since my footage is 4K. </p>
  
Tags: <after-effects><preview>
Title: After Effects is not changing the preview quality!
UserDisplayName: Taimoor Ahmad
ThreadText: # After Effects is not changing the preview quality!
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-09-11)
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/InGmu.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/InGmu.jpg)I have the preview resolution set to quarter, frame skip set to 5 and yet After Effects is previewing at full resolution constantly. I have tried changing the settings through the sidebar and the bar under the preview.
  
  I have purged the RAM, cache, etc. several times and even re-opening the program does not help.
  
  The preview is indeed set to 'Adaptive resolution'. This is making the preview playback impossible since my footage is 4K.
  
  **Tags:** after-effects, preview
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-09-12. Score: 1
  
  Quarter of 4K is still 1080. Depending on your rig it still might chug thru playback. I would look into proxies as they are pretty quick to set up and would drastically improve workability.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: I'll second looking into setting up a proxy workflow.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX18PMX-nS4    (AE)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w7RIdACweQ   (Premiere)  
  > **username_0**: Good point but this was not the case. Even 1080p footage was still being shown at full 1080 instead of being scaled downwards.  
  
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