RAM Preview not real time on MacBook Pro M1 Max

Hi, same problem here: brand new M1 running AE (without Rosetta). I can't load the preview at all. The footage color is Rec 709 Gamma 2.4 and this color space doesn't exist in the list in AE. What's the solution here? If i set the color space to "none", the problem doesn't go away

We were able to get our After Effects running properly by running WITHOUT Rosetta, and adjusting some of our playback settings. I hope these help some people out because these issues were really slowing us down and I was tempted to downgrade back to my old computer.

In Preferences / Previews - We changed Viewer Quality to Faster

In Audio Hardware, we changed the Buffer Size to 128 samples.

We also lowered the RAM reserved for other applications to the lowest allowed (3GB)

John, Happy to help you with this and supply any information needed. I have tried several versions of AE with the same file and still not getting previews that run at all. I can export the file in less 2 mins yet cannot get a preview at quarter size to work?

I am having the same issue. I have a maxed out M1 Max Macbook Pro and I cant even preview a 5second section of animation in AE. Ive just updated it to latest update and it seems even worse!!!
Can Adobe just stop adding pointless new features and get the basics working first!!

This is not a new issue, and not unique to the M1. The problem has been around since 2016. I have it on my 2017 iMac pro as well. See this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/ram-preview-not-in-real-time/td-p/8353465.

The fact that After Effects will not playback cached frames in anything close to realtime is my number one issue with the program. I hoped you all would finally fix it when rewriting stuff for Apple Silicon. Apparently not.

I just obtained an M1 Ultra Mac Studio. Preview is not even marginally faster than my 2019 Intel Macbook Pro. I'm running After Effects 22.6.0 build 23 natively on M1, and After Effects 18.4.1 build 4 on Intel.

I will be uploading a simultaneous side-by-side recording of these devices to YouTube shortly and publishing to Reddit / Twitter / Apple / Adobe / and whatever other relevant channels come to mind.

Adobe has grossly misrepresented the performance gains of M1-native After Effects. The lack of transparency is disturbing, bordering on deceptive. When can we expect genuine, broad-reaching performance increases on M1 as opposed to cherry-picked numbers under artificially fabricated scenarios? Adobe has no answers.

UPDATE: Recording of side-by-side performance can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnn0DcosO4w

Brand new m1 max mac studio. After Effects has been seriously disappointing. Both in performance and rendering times.

I dont understand how this machine is somehow slower then my six year old macbook.

Disappointed.

Echoing the issue many are experiencing here. Brand new M1 MacBook Pro running 22.4 on Monterey 12.4. Making changes to a credit scroll I'm working on -- text only, zero effects and plug-ins used, takes longer to preview than it did on my old Windows machine. Completely unacceptable; even changing text from bold to italic gives me the beachball and even then takes about a minute and a half to show up in my preview window.

A fix is long overdue.

Renders times are super fast on new M1, but previewing is taking longer and maxing out at around 15-20s. Even in 22.4. Hopefully this is fixed soon.

Hey there,

I'm too experiencing incredibly slow workflow within AE 22.3 (Silicon) on 16inch M1 Max 64 GB, 1 TB Storage // OS Monterey 12.3.1.
After letting it ram preview it even is very slow with a green bar being displayed. But it's not only playback, a simple change of text size takes about 2-3 seconds to render on the program screen.

Thanks in advance

Best
Timm