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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.

71 replies

Jenkmeister
October 17, 2023

I promise we are not just ignoring all the AE problems 🙂 

 

What version of MacOS are you on? 

Can you look at the MacOS Activity Manger when this slow down happens in AE and see if there are any other processes that are taking CPU cycles away? 

If you turn off Cache Frames When Idle (Composition Menu -> Preview -> Cache Frames When Idle), does this still occur? 

Do you have any third-party plugins installed/panels open?