I have been using After Effects since CS 5, a version I absolutely loved because it was solid, stable and rarely crashed and because of that, fun to work with. Your latest major release, After Effects CC 2017, is the exact opposite of stable. This is not new, all of the Creative Cloud (CC) releases have been buggy at best, fundamentally broken at worst upon initial release. The 2017 release, however, has been the worst by far. In my line of work, we create some pretty complex projects that older versions had no problem handling. But now I cross my fingers hoping After Effects did not crash overnight while rendering. This would be forgivable except any project file touched by 2017 is somehow 'tainted' so attempts to roll back to a previous version with the same project will start causing similar crashing issues in CC 2015 I am totally blown away that someone at Adobe looked at 14.0, saw it's functionality, said "f&#+ the customers" and greenlit it for release. Based on all the bugs and crashes I've seen both personally, from other people I work with and on forums, 2017 has at least 6 months of development and 6 months of testing before it is a viable software. The AE platform isn't going to make you guys any money if you continue down this path. I'm telling you that you might actually cripple the software's reputation so badly that no one is going to use Adobe products. Nuke and other competing alternative softwares may be ridiculously expensive but at least they can render a shot without crashing all the time. I feel bad for the 10 software engineers who coded this and were forced to release this crap so early in it's development. Apparently, the Adobe executives got wild hairs up their — about only releasing new versions every 3 years. Instead of giving the mere 10 person AE team plenty of time to TEST and FIX the software bugs themselves on a rainbow of computer hardware configurations, you guys decided it would be best if the CUSTOMER tested the software in before it has even reached the beta phase and then release patches for it over the course of it's one year lifetime so you could release a new version every year like some crappy sports video game. The customers. The people who are not a quality control department! The people who basically rely on your software to eat and pay the bills! People pay money for this, companies pay money for this. A lot more cumulatively than with the Creative Suite releases and the return on our investment is becoming increasingly not worth it. The only idea I have right now is to remove all versions from my system and re-install a solitary older, stable, tested by customers version of After Effects and not opening but IMPORTING my previous projects that were saved out of 2017 as CC13. At home, I have my own box that I built myself, happily running (and rendering) smoothly on AE CC 2015 and 2014. I would've been done with several of my projects from work weeks ago if I had taken them home to render. Here is a small list of things that can (but not always) cause After Effects CC 2017 (14.0) to crash: -Opening After Effects -Closing After Effects (Error literally says "Stuff not in right order") -Starting a RAM preview using the spacebar (Fixed in update but still worth mentioning) -Stopping a RAM preview (Fixed in update but still worth mentioning) -RAM previewing clips containing audio -RAM previewing audio -Having layers with keylight at the bottom of a layer stack vs the top -Rendering -Rendering with keylight -Doing anything else on the computer while AE is rendering even if half of my 64GB of RAM is allocated -Opening Preferences (Fixed in update but still worth mentioning) -And my personal favorite: Absolutely nothing P.S. After 5 years, your software is still unable to utilize high performance graphics cards that are recommended on your website. Computer Specs: -ASUS SABERTOOTH X99 LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard -Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3 GHz LGA 2011-v3 Desktop Processor -G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series (64GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Intel Z170 Platform -PNY Quadro M4000 VCQM4000-PB 8GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Full Height Workstation Video Card -2 Samsung 1 TB + 2TB SSD Drives -Windows 10 Pro -Latest AE CC 2017 version as of 12/20/16 according to Creative Cloud desktop app Moderator note: This is a warning. Please do not use profanity in your posts. It is against our community guidelines. Remember. There are those under 18 using our forums too, so please be respectful. Thank you.
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