After Effects 24.0 EXTREMELY slow

@BRDy Any chance you are able to install the 24.4 AE Beta and see if that helps your project work better? There are a series of fixes in 24.3 and 24.4 that are specific to the Apple silicon machines and memory usage. I don't know for sure if it'll fix your situation (depending upon the grading tools, there have been past situations with a few different plugins holding onto memory in a way AE can't recover) but if it's not those plugins, the fixes we have put in might help. 

Also, no, not running multiple applications. I've tested all of this bot with a browser and email client open, then close and only After Effevts and only Media Encoder running.

the first thing I close when that message forst came up were other applications and background processes.

@BRDy Thank you for all the details. The conforming and grading work - is that using any 3rd party plugins or just native plugins in AE? 

For contrast, rendering within Premier, works. Rendering from Premier into Media Encoder, works.

I tested rendering the same volume from Topaz Video AI, just to see if there were issues... And there were none, it worked.

i had recreated the same work I did in After Effects in a new After Effects project, twice, and all of the same rendering issues in After Effects and rendering After Effects compositions in Media Encoder, failed, each time.

This all seams like a really big issue with the After Effects render engine, but I'm not a dev. Just a life-long user that can't afford these ongoing issues with a tool I love 🙂

MacBook Pro, M2 Pro, 32GBs RAM, 1TB SSD. Working drive is an 4TB TB4 SSD, Rendering to another 4TB TB4 SSD.

At first: I was running 24.2.1 on macOS Sonoma. Got the error message. Tried rendering comps through Media Encoder, they hung and lead to a force quit. Activity monitor showed the same memory issues there.

Fix steps were to change the Memory settings to multiples of 4GBs, so I set it to 4GBs. And the same issues happened, tried 8GBs. I got the same issues. So, I opened a new project and imported the old one, and got the same issues across the same memory settings.

i save a new copy of the project to 23.x

installed After Effects 23.6.2 and Media Encoder 23.6.4.

Same issues, same fix steps, and same issues.

i shut down and tried all of these steps all over again... Same issues.

i shut down did a clean install of macOS, this time Ventura 13.6.5.

installed After Effects 23.6.2, Media Encoder 23.6.4.., Got the same issues, took the same fix steps, same issues.

installed AE 24.1 and ME 24.2.1... Same issues.

repeated same fix steps, same issues.

I've had to bring all of my work into premier, and recreate it there and instead of exporting the clips I needed, I'm exporting all of the clips I needed from a single timeline, into one file... And it seems to be working... From Premier.

i was conforming and grading multiple clips I need to share with collaborators across different projects leveraging the same assets so they have to match... And I've lost three days doing this work around and troubleshooting.

even after a clean install, I'm getting all of the same issues with after effects.

please don't make me have to switch to Final Cut, resolve and motion.

@BRDy Are you running 24.2.1 or 24.3 or 24.4 Beta? Are you running other Adobe apps at the same time? If you use Purge, does it help. What are the specs on your machine? 

This issue is costing me three days of my work time and I've tried it all. I change the memory settings, rolled back to previous versions of the software and repeated those steps. I've even done a full clean OS install and AE re-install resetting preferences and trying again and I'm getting the same system out of memory error every time I render. In Media Encoder, it will complete 1 clip and then hang on the second requiring a force quit.

its bloody tiring and is the latest in a line of issues over the last couple years with after effects and adobe in particular.

@cathyd23090491 Any chance you can screen record what you see. I'm not really sure what to attribute, "the lag is insane" too. So it may help to see a recording of what you're experiencing. 

Yup. That's happening to me. I'm working exclusively with text and shape layers. No fancy effects. MacStudio, M1 Ultra with 20-core CPU, 48-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine 64GB unified memory 1TB SSD storage. MacOS Sonoma 14.3.1. Keep emptying cache, restarting machine, closing other apps, but makes no difference. I can't get anything done, the lag is insane.

Hello, I finally recorded my screen.

I identify two specific problems:

1. Adobe dynamic link between Premire and After Effects cannot be used correctly, error is shown in the video.

2. "After Effects" does not work smoothly, as you can see in the video, basic actions like cutting a layer, playing or setting the space for preview work slow, each action takes about 4 seconds or more, even if I work in Resolution 1/4. I also opened the specifications of my computer, I have enough free space on my SSD, I have an 8-core Intel Xenon W processor, 32 GB RAM. In more than ten years using the suite I have never found myself in this situation.

This example is in mac, but also I experiment the same problem in my PC. 

Can we get an old version? Maybe in 2023 or 2022, I really need to work, guys.

In this link I uploaded more images: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16e-aiI1kolKFBLlgl6a_61boR-kXAmB4?usp=sharing

Thank you!