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Mago Fattino
Mago Fattino
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July 24, 2023
Question

AE it's become a hell of a program

  • July 24, 2023
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Hi everyone, can someone please explain to me why AE it's become so slow? I started 15 years ago with v2.0 and it was amazing, for years, I say! Now it's just frustrating as hell, every update it gets worse and worse, I'm wondering why paying so much for an ass program like it's today. I can't understand... 

 

Check out my screencap video of a project running.
I can't even have a real time preview in quarter resolution (original comp size is 1080p), I'll put my PC specs down below. I have no motion blur activated, no other programs or software running in background, I cleared the cache before recording. If I pause and play a section already cached, it needs to be rendered again... other times if I pause it and start again it take 4 to 5 seconds before starting the preview... that's disgusting.
The project it's really small and light, a bounch of elements with very few effects (some light sweep, puppet tool, color fill) I've done thing way much complicated than this! Everything is compact and well organized with short names and short location path.

The stranger things it's the use of components, CPU is used only around 20%, GPU around 40%, the disk around 5-10%, RAM is 55%. Why!? Why spending money on new hardware then?
I tried with nVidia Studio Driver, it get even worse...

My PC specs:
- Rog Strix Z590-E Gaming Wi-fi
- i9 10900KF 3.70GHz
- 64GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro (2 x 32)

- 1TB Sabrent Rocket SSD NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 (200GB of cache and planty of space)
- Windows 10 Pro


My old PC with a GTX 980 and old CPU works better... I can't say why. Please help me find out.

Thanks

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Andrew Yoole
Andrew Yoole
Inspiring
July 26, 2023

Just post a project file as an attachment in this thread.  I'm currently using the same machine - MBP M2 Max with 96GB RAM - and not experiencing any obvious issues.  I find Apple silicon to be pretty incredible during the design phase in AE, the timeline is so smooth and responsive.  (Although I do seem to have regular Dynamic Link issues when sending the AE Render Queue to AME.) Lets see if we can reproduce your issue on my machine.

    DVSth
    DVSth
    Known Participant
    July 25, 2023

    How would i be ablet to share a project to you? 

    Warren Heaton
    Community Expert
    Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 25, 2023

    @DVSth 

     

    Sorry to hear that you're having unexpected performance issues.  After Effects should run pretty well on your MacBook Pro.


    Do you have a project that you can share?

     

    I could try to reproduce the issue on my 32GB/1TB M1 Max 16-inch MacBook Pro.

     

    Having others be able to reproduce the issue is key to getting unexpected performance issues resolved quickly.



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    markoconnell
    Known Participant
    July 25, 2023

    I've been having crashes as well because all the system memory is somehow taken. I'm at the point where I purge memory and disk cache before attempting anything.

    DVSth
    DVSth
    Known Participant
    July 25, 2023

    I have a Macbook Pro M2 Max 96 Gigs of Ram and it can not even perform 2D work without the RAM spiking to 90% usage and crashing. It dies just trying to render text with 2 simple animaitors applied. I have spent 3 days trying to trouble shoot it - even downgrading and everything. 

    Had to resort back to my 13 yr old PC to get the job completed. 

    Not one Adobe Rep can assist. 

      Warren Heaton
      Community Expert
      Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 25, 2023

      @markoconnell 


      Sure, 15 years ago someone could have been running After Effects version 2, but not under Windows.

      Warren Heaton
      Community Expert
      Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 25, 2023

      How does After Effects behave if you disable all third-party addons and plugins?  

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      markoconnell
      Known Participant
      July 25, 2023

      Mylenium- The fact that he started working in with AE fifteen years doesn't mean he couldn't have been working with v2.

      Mylenium
      Mylenium
      Legend
      July 24, 2023
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      I started 15 years ago with v2.0 and it was amazing, for years, I say!

       

      That's unlikely. The actual v2 is more like over 20 years ago and AE7, which you presumably mean, wasn't even officially called CS2, even though it was packaged with various CS2 suites. Just sayin'... That said of course we all can agree that AE these days is a veritable mess in so many ways. Your screen recording seems to drive home the point of the sub-par GPU acceleration not working and potential caching issues. Of course one could tell you to check those things, but I guess you already knew that...

       

      Mylenium

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      markoconnell
      Known Participant
      July 24, 2023

      You’re right. AE has become a real problem. I’ve been using it since ver 1 and am dismayed at what’s happening. Lately it crashes as a result of stealing all the system memory, a weird chroma flicker has developed, and on top of everything else it often refuses to be hidden with command-H. What a pain.


      Mark O’Connell

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