Laggy Typing in After Effects is getting worse.

Hey @JohnColombo17100380 ,

It was in this thread (AE UI Lag) that Jenkmeister mentioned that this had been acknowleged and was being worked on.

I also uploaded another video here (although I've since removed off my Google Drive - I can't host all these adobe videos forever!)

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-bugs/interface-is-slow-and-laggy/idc-p/13752017/page/9#M3685 

I'm very surprised you guys haven't been able to reproduce. I jump around a lot of different machines as well as work on two primary machines, and I seem to experience this on every single one (albeit, all Mac machines ranging from 2017 iMacs to 2019 Macbook Pros).

Hi @Rob217717683hsl,

No, we have not been able to reproduce the lag on our systems, to the best of my knowledge. Was that shared elsewhere?

There is work in progress involving our type engine (details here) but without a repro on our end, I can't say for sure if it will affect the issue you're seeing. As I mentioned, please install and give the latest Beta builds a try if you can, and let us know if you encounter the same lag as in the release version. This would help us to narrow down the conditions in which you are seeing the lag and possibly determine if it is related to a typeface, a preference, or something else.

Cheers,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

Hey John,

It seems you guys are now aware/have been able to reproduce typing issues in AE and are working on it?

Hi John,

This is still an issue. Video here:

laggy typing in AE.mov

Just to reitterare, you can see the blank spaces where characters should be, but don't appear until you hit another character.

To be perfectly honest, the interface is slow in general.

Also to answer your question, no I don't have SF Pro installed.

I can't remember, but I've already tested this behaviour with a number of fonts, included those installed by default in MacOS, and installed with other Creative Cloud applications and I can't find any performance improvement by changing font.

In fact, I've noticed this issue get worse.

One issue is that After Effects often doesn't update the visual when you make one change, then it updates when you make the second change.

For example, type one letter and you don't see it. Type two letters and you see the first letter plus the second letter. This is on top of issues that have cropped up since chatting to support initially, such as the fact that the Character panel now also lags and doesn't update the values of the text you've selected until you click to edit somewhere in the character panel twice.

Hi @Rob217717683hsl,

Thank you for reporting this issue. Do you recall who you were in contact with previously regarding this issue?

We know of a number of typefaces that can cause the kind of lag you are describing, both when typing and when interacting with the Character panel. A commonly-installed one is SF Pro. Do you have this typeface installed? If so, see if uninstalling that typeface improves the responsiveness. If not, I would recommend using "Deactivate all fonts not in use" in the Creative Cloud app and see if there is any change in responsiveness.

We are actively working on improving the performance of After Effects with any currently-problematic typefaces.

Thanks again for reporting this issue and for any further information you can provide, 

- John, After Effects Engineering Team

I just replied to my own post. That's amazing.

I can't upvote this, but 100% agree. Typing in After Effects is horrid.