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October 17, 2023

After Effects 24.0 EXTREMELY slow

  • October 17, 2023
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I don't know if everyone is having this problem, but After Effects is absolutely impossible to work. I'm working using simple shapes, a gradient layer and a text layer. And After Effects is just slow with something so simple like that. Inside the program, the mouse movement gets really laggy, it takes forever to render. And I'm not using external files, I'm not using adjustment layers and I'm not using any Motion Blur.

 

I'm feeling After Effects is getting worse and worse on each version Adobe release. And there's no way the problem is my computer, since I'm using a Mac Studio with M1 Max, 64Gb RAM and 4T storage. I can't find a resonable explanation for all this lag on every project.

 

Honestly, I'm starting to think about migrating to another software, since Adobe seems to just ignore all the After Effects problems.

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Known Participant
November 30, 2023

I'm sorry but you really are!  There are so so many things that people have been asking for for at least a decade - including bug fixes and features - and you just don't do them!  You just add features that nobody wanted and never really work (content aware fill) and keep piling the problems up.  Maybe stop releasing a new version every year and release one that actually works?  I'm more likely to keep paying Adobe that way 

Frank_B
Inspiring
November 29, 2023

@jenkmeister17177426It's not just MacOS. I work on Windows 10, Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core, 64GB RAM, Geforce RTX 3080. Adobe installed on NAND SSD, projects files are on 2nd NAND SSD.
I literally just came to Adobe forum to write the same comment as @Bruno T. Augusto .

After Effects is extremely slow like never before. As I see it at the moment, there's no rule when it happens. Can be selecting keyframes, can be switching from precomps to precomps,  a project can be simple with just a solid with text and AE will still freeze for a second or few (to process simple operations??).

I use the same workstation and SDD with Photoshop or Lightroom and there's no such issue.

EDIT / UPDATE:
This is very weird but the issue didn't occur as much yesterday. No updates, no changes in plugins or system. It's quite baffling. I'll try to find out the reason for it.
The bottom line, Ae is slower than it used to be.

Participant
November 29, 2023

Same problem... I just updated to the new version and it is really very slow compared to the previous one, used a few hours before, always in a Win11 environment, and always in the same conditions (no other changes on the system).

 

Participant
October 17, 2023

I'll see what I can do with this WindowServer problem. But I think it might be because I have some windows open at the same time. I'll check it out!

 

I'm using this computer for less than a year and AE started to lag a lot since the last update on the 23 version. And the 24 version got much worse. Besides theses problems I reported, it continues to show an "out of memory" warning. Even in really really simple compositions. Like...an animated text with no background. I never had this king of problem before, even when I was still using my old iMac. But now, AE keeps crashing, showing warnings that just disappear and lagging a lot.

Jenkmeister
October 17, 2023

I've responded on the other post. And we'll leave this post for the Mac issue that @Bruno T. Augusto is reporting.

Known Participant
October 17, 2023

I uploaded the logs & crash files in a previous post: https://adobe.ly/46PJ316 .

Didn't get any responses since the upload.

Jenkmeister
October 17, 2023

@GotChaDigi If you do crash, please make sure to submit the crashes and we can look them up on our backend and see what's going on.

Jenkmeister
October 17, 2023

@Bruno T. Augusto if you look at the idle rate, you're actually at 85% idle. AE using 113.2% just means it is using more than 1 core of your system. The next 3 tasks in that image are what concern me. They have used hours and hours of CPU time with nothing else coming close. The WindowsServer one in particular is used for rendering the OS in general. 

Known Participant
October 17, 2023

Having the same problem(s) on the Windows 11 platform.  Waiting for a 2nd call back today from second-level AE TS. 

 

Propagation and rendering is unbearably slow and freezes and crashes regularly.  Tried to use Beta versions too.  Looking for alternative solutions instead of Roto Brush within Adobe tools and outside UGH 

 

Participant
October 17, 2023

I'm using MacOS Ventura 13.4.1

After Effects is consuming all the CPU and a little more. 

 

I tried do turn off cache frames, but didn't work. It is still very very slow and laggy.

And I use a few third party plugins. DecomposeText, from Aescripts. And the Maxon Universe bundle.

 

Don't know what this problem could be. But I'm having problems with After Effects for some years already, and it keeps getting worse and worse.