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Marc Trzepla
Inspiring
September 28, 2022

Interface is Slow and Laggy

  • September 28, 2022
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Dear Adobe,

Me again.

Please stop everything that you're doing with the development of new bells and whistles and doodads and put all your resources and firepower into resolving the years-old issue of the Slow and Laggy Interface in After Effects. Seriously. It's been YEARS. I kept thinking, "ah, they'll fix it soon.." and hope for the best and I end up feeling like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football every time a new update for After Effects comes out. "Maybe they fixed it!" And it's still not fixed.

When I contact Support I'm told, "the issue that you are facing is a known issue and the same has been highlighted to the designated team who are working on getting the issue fixed in the future releases," but it has yet to be fixed.

Old After Effects was FASTER on OLDER laptops - I have been on modern workstation-build DESKTOPS that are slower in response. Makes me not want to work in After Effects. I feel bad for those starting out in motion graphics in 2020 and this is what they are introduced to.

SpaceX put two astronauts on the space station. Surely we can get a butter smooth interface in After Effects.

Thank you.

https://vimeo.com/441661685/b7aba12cba

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    zsaaro
    zsaaro
    Inspiring
    September 28, 2022
    Box select in blender. Seems like actual selection only happens after you release the mouse which might help performance? Here's a video selecting 4000 - 8000 cubes.
    It does start to lag just a tiny bit at some point, but again, 8000 cubes...

    Could it be that After Effects constantly selecting and deselecting as you move the mouse makes it perform so poorly? If so, is there any good reason it works that way?
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      JDLLC
      Participating Frequently
      September 28, 2022
      I have a moderate sized project that I'm working on today (75 layers in the current comp), however moving keyframes is an absolute pain. I'll click and drag a keyframe to move it, then release the mouse, the keyframe will go where I put it, then the keyframe will jump as if I was still holding the keyframe. It makes editing using the mouse almost unusable because the UI is so laggy.
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        JDLLC
        Participating Frequently
        September 28, 2022
        This is especially a problem with high dpi monitors (and I'd bet that 95% of working professionals have high dpi screens). Today I used the shortcut "s" to bring up my scale property. I waited 3 seconds before it popped up. I love faster render times, but a slow UI is unacceptable.
          Fresh Squeezed Creative
          Fresh Squeezed Creative
          Known Participant
          September 28, 2022
          Yes, please!!!!!!!!!
          Adobe, empower your professional day-to-day users, we don't NEED more bells and whistles. We NEED speed and efficiency. Like we had, back in 2014.
            nonibalogny
            nonibalogny
            Participant
            September 28, 2022
            Dear AE team just please put all your attention and effort into fixing this dumb bug and making your clients happy. not asking you to invent fire, it's not rocket science, just make it work better like in previous versions.
            I see I'm not the only one suffering from this problem, it's among customers with high resolution screens. narrowed it down for you. Really frustrated with you.
              Bassefrans
              Bassefrans
              Inspiring
              September 28, 2022
              Just bought a secondary 4K screen to keep my timeline on, to get a better overview of layers and keyframes. Boy do I regret! It is SO SLOW AND LAGGY that I actually had to laugh out loud at the irony of a MOTION GRAPHICS software with more lag in the UI than in the actual graphics.

              Looking forward to the day this is fixed, same day we land on Mars I suppose...
                Carlos Zenzuke Albarran
                Carlos Zenzuke Albarran
                Participating Frequently
                September 28, 2022
                Yes please, specially unbearable with one or more 4K screens.
                  the_dudes
                  the_dudes
                  Inspiring
                  September 28, 2022
                  https://digitalvideoaudio.typeform.com/to/R8yACg 👈 This survey of the AE-team is from April, but I filled it out anyways.
                  the_dudes
                  the_dudes
                  Inspiring
                  September 28, 2022
                  @7198024 Jeffries Threadrippers aren't the best for AE. Check Puget Systems for AE-PC building. They got great analysis. Also, the 1070 is terrible for GPU-Acceleration for nowadays. Putting in two of them doesn't improve anything. AE doesn't even use multi GPU.
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                    Scott.C.
                    Inspiring
                    September 28, 2022
                    Love how web browsers can scroll lines and lines and lines of graphics, text, and images smoothly and yet AE can't scroll s**t. The lack of TLC on some basic things like this makes me think they just don't care.
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