Interface is Slow and Laggy

I've only dreamed of such performance in AE. 

https://youtu.be/vLdq9m93FLI?si=_Sl5NIeRCKK7Q9Ba

@jenkmeister17177426 Thanks for responding. I know my post isn't really helpful, but I do have to voice my frustration on the lack of apparent progress from time to time. I think fixing interface responsiveness would be the most meaningful bug fix of the last 10 year, if it can be done well!   

If this is the case then why do Adobe insist on this ridiculous annual release cycle??  We don't want a new version released arbitrarily ever year that offers no meaningful changes and the same bugs - take two years, take FIVE - just make AE work well!  That's all we want!  For the love of God! 

@Scott.C. I promise when we make improvements to the UI performance, I will post back here. There is work on-going in this area, but some of these changes are deep in shared code used across Adobe, and it is taking a long time to get those changes through all the teams for review and integration. The drawing on the timeline on Windows also affects the drawing of the overlays, so there is quite a bit to test there as well. I do apologize for our lack of outward facing progress here.

Welcome to v24! Another version where Charlie Brown doesn't get to kick the proverbial football. 

Every version I try the same basic test. Duplicate 30 solids, add one position keyframe and try to select all and move the keyframes around and it still lags like its 1993. 

@Martin Matthias - my opinion and comments are no more, or less vvalid, than yours or anybody else's in here.

While you may not agree with my comments, I'll kindly continue to voice what I think is important and appropriate. I don't think it's overly appropriate you have taken it upon yourself to decide what is and isn't relevant.

It's not about ranting, though. It's about hard working creative professionals who are finding it harder and harder to make money efficiently because the software we're paying for continually slips further and further into performance dissarray.

It's about a company touting massive profits at the expense of yours, mine, and everyone else in here's time and wallet. Adobe isn't my friend, Adobe isn't your friend. Adobe is a business that provides a service, and that service is more expensive and less efficient than a decade ago. All on hardware that is exponentially better in every single facet. 

No, I am sorry, but Adobe are taking the piss here mate. I don't know what level of Adobe it is coming from obviously, this isn't pointed at software devs.

Adobe aren't working on this as a priority, it's as obvious as night and day. it's been years!!! The "Make it faster and stop crashing" thing has been around for what seems like ever. Minus 14, God bless it. 

I did also provide constructive feedback. Hire more devs with the literal billions in profit and fox it!

Pretty sure a senior Dev doesn't cost all THAT much...

@Fresh Squeezed Creative 

If you followed this thread you know that the Adobe staff is aware of the issues and working on them. Am I disappointed about the slow development pace? Sure. It must be a business decision of the management to not put more manpower into AEs development. I bet the devs working on it are disappointed aswell.

Is it constructive to scream in Caps Lock demanding Adobe to give you money back because their software is not "good enough"? No.

We all know about the performance problems. AE devs know about them. If you have anything to add that could potentially support or speed up the development, that's great! Ranting has happened enough here.

@Martin Matthias  "Constructive" is subjective, and I respectfully disagree that my comments are not constructive. The side of this discussion that I bring up is eequally as important as the tech side. 

AE has been a total dog's breakfast since 2014. NINE YEARS AGO. Almost a decade.
Yet, Adobe made $4.89bn in Q3 of 2023 alone.

They can absolutely afford to do better, they're absolutely capable of doing better - they are choosing not to. 

@Fresh Squeezed Creative 

Let's keep this discussion constructive. No one forces you to buy Adobe products. If you're unhappy with the software, cancel your subscription. It's a free market.

@Marc Trzepla 

I find the Composition Profiler to be very helpful for what you're describing "to see where After Effects is getting tied up".

I'm not sure what's different about my configurations, but I do not experience the UI lag that some of the screen recordings posted in this thread show.

-Warren