"Sticky" Mouse in 23.1

I updated to 23.2.1 and the timeline performace is much better. Thank You. It still studders compared to 22.0 but the keyframes are not getting "stuck" anymore.

@Diego-3-1-20 The slowdown with many keyframes and selected keyframes is what we'll be focused on improving in future versions. Thanks again for confirming that the latest Beta build's performance matches 22.6. That was our goal for this fix and now we are planning to address further the interactivity slowdown with keyframes and layer overlays.

Cheers,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

Had to change my testing. What I was doing before, it didn't really matter if I had layer controls on or off.

This is a 1080p 15second comp at 144fps with a single solid(300x300) with a keyframe every frame.

22.6, 23 and the beta perform the same. Disabling layer controls on all 3 helps.

With this many keyframes visible, they almost perform as bad as 23.2 but they still feel better. Moving the layer past the current frame on the timeline show how much worse 23.2 is. Scrubbing performance on all versions is worse if I have all keyframes selected even with layer controls off.

Without recording and counting frames, I'd say the beta, v22.6 and v23 are all identical.

But I'm also running on a 5950x and a 4090. Slower builds might show differences I can't see.

Thank you for that feedback, @Diego-3-1-20. The detail is very helpful. How does the performance compare to 22.6? Does disabling Layer Controls in the View menu improve the performance?

The current fix is focused on fixing the issues that started with 23.1, but we are actively looking to further address UI interaction performance in future releases.

Thanks again,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

Beta feels really good to me. Huge improvement. It's really obvious if you set a comp to a high framreate and move a layer around while zoomed out on the timeline.

It starts to slow down a bit with a more keyframes and layers but it's much more usable. Only thing that feels off to me is clicking on the timeline takes a second to respond if a lot of keyframes are visible. After that delay, you can drag around like normal. Layer count doesn't cause it, just visible keyframes.

Hi all,

Thanks again for your reports about this issue. There is a potential fix available in the latest Beta build and we would greatly appreciate it if you could try it out and let us know if the issue is fixed for you. Look in the Beta apps section of the Creative Cloud app for After Effects (Beta)—the version with the potential fix is 23.3.0.36.

Thanks again for your help in tracking down this issue,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

There are several threads discussing this lagging timeline problem in AE23. I've commented in another tread as I am having the same issue. I'm noticing a commonality in most posts...NVIDIA Hardware.

Yes! i have machine with Nvidea Graphic card, my especs GTX 1660Ti 6GB Notebook Nvdia Studio Driver Updated. + Intel i7 9750H + 32 GB Ram. 

Same issue, since v23 update, pointer is sticky in the timeline, triming or moving layers have delay. Im on windows 10, Nvidia Studio drivers (because I am using Octane render I cant have game drivers) all up to date. Simply creating a new project and creating a solid produce the lag.

Still have the problem on 23.2.