After Effects 24.0 EXTREMELY slow

113%(?!) cpu - thats a lot!!! 😛

Same me and friend have been having the same issue in all the adobe different apps from Premiere Pro to After Effects,

is anyone else having the same issue with the apps recentlky and if not can ianyone help, ive been trying to work and evertime it crashes after a few minutes.

@֑nubnubbud Just to clarify, my comment was directed at another user, not the original poster. They were discussing their setup, which includes an i7-7700 processor, 32 GB RAM, and a GTX 1060 6G, and how it benefits from quicksync hardware acceleration. As for me, I'm still getting the hang of this Adobe community forum layout.

Regarding my experience, I haven't used Adobe After Effects on my M1 MAX Macbook Pro (with 32GB RAM, 1TB internal storage, and a 2TB external SSD for cache) since I built my PC a few months back. However, I did notice that AE seemed more stable on MacOS, probably owing to better support for ProRes and ProRes Raw. I do wish Adobe would add ProRes hardware acceleration for CUDA in AE, but I'm not too hopeful. This skepticism is based on the lack of stability I've observed with ProRes Raw in AE on Windows, as evidenced by numerous unresolved discussions over the years. Currently, I'm using a Ryzen 9 7950x with an RTX 4080, 96GB of RAM @6400, and a 2TB M.2 drive dedicated solely for caching. Performance-wise, it feels comparable to my previous setup.

@HunchoDreams With all due respect, my computer is from 2017 and works better than his does. Newer computers typically work better because they're stronger, but AE typically has very poor scaling with anything but processor speeds and single core transistor counts, in a time when we're getting more, smaller cores, stronger GPU's, and not much faster CPU's. and the addition of a built in GPU takes up some of the space that AE could use for CPU cores to render one more frame at the same time (not rendering the next frame faster, AE isn't multithreaded for consistent framerates, we don't need that, right?).

With slightly less respect, those graphs are intel CPU's, which have been a joke for efficiency and overheating since the 12000 series and he's using an M1, not an intel chip... Ironically, Apple sells their machines as a creator platform, and AE struggles on it. Adobe advertises their programs as running on apple machines, though since AE22 there have been nonstop stability issues on apple platforms, and since AE2016, performance issues throughout. 

Not to be rude but you would really benefit using a more recent processor and possibly faster ram.

We have M1 Ultras on the development and QE team and are not reproducing this choppyness. Are you able to screen record your experience so we can take a look at what's going on?

Same here, 24.1 is basically unusable as it is, playback is choppy even when rendered and the cursors lags when using the program. Its catastrophic. Using an M1 Studio Ultra 128 GB Ram

Can you capture a screen recording when it is happening? Or share a project that we can attempt to reproduce the problem with? 

Same problem here.

I tried in two differents computer, mac and windows both whit 8GB  dedicated video graphics, everything is so slow for expample:

When I cut a layer the program last 6 or 7 seconds to show the instructions,  also for move the intro outro marks, horrible.

I dont know what is happening, both computers have 32 GB RAM and SSD disk. No plugins, No third-party plugins installed/panels open. All aplications closed.

Like many I am facing similar issues. It's hard to work on small projects smoothly, and when it comes to longer ones, my computer lags so much that it's impossible to work. To "overcome" this problem, I have to start new projects and break them down into smaller parts, even though I'ts hard to work. I'm not using any fancy effects; most of the work is done on simple objects and masks. 

For a long time, I thought the issue was with my PC and was hoping that buying a new one would solve it, but now I'm really disappointed, that is not a case. What are good alterantives to Adobe, especialy AE?

i7-7700; 32 GB RAM, GTX 1060 6GB, 1T storage

Recently I cleaned and added a new thermal paste.