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After Effects 22.0.1 causing memory leaks on M1 Max

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November 12, 2021
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I'm running AE 22.0.1 on my M1 iMac (16GB Ram) with no issues. Yet when I render videos on my M1 Max (32GB RAM) I'm getting error messages saying "Your system has run our of Application Memory" or it simple has the goat yell at me and it crashes.

22.0 worked perfectly. I'm sure its a new bug, just putting it out there.

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christiaanventer

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Yeah same problem. It's driving me mad, cant make previews and constantly getting the low memory warning. Resorted to contantly making small test renders to preview work. What a mission!!

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sarahc16162113

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I have a brand new M1 Max with very little on it and having real issues on a 17second movie. I also updated to ventura, still the same issue. Come on adobe, get it sorted, pleeeease.

francoestrubia

Participating Frequently

22.6.0 still leaking insane amounts of memory (AE the worst). To this day, adobe is completelly unfunctional on M1/M2 macs.
Is what we get with this crappy development workflow, just a peak out as betatesters who pay.

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creggor

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I'm no longer having these issues - I'd love to share how I solved it but not sure exactly what I did lol.

I'm using both the beta (when possible, and in native mode) and the latest Intel official release version, switching back and forth when the need aries, and even sometimes at the same time. I've tested on old projects where this problem first occured and didn't have any issues.

The system ram does diminish down to under 1GB at times but it manages do a purge and gain some back. Out of habit I do "Purge image cache memory" from time to time. In fact if you run into the "Out of memory" error, simply close the window and chose that purge option, rather than "All memory or All memory and disc cache".

So I'm wondering what the deep issue is? Is it a plugin suite causing the memory leak, or something within the system? One thing system-wide I changed is switching the System Security Settings to "Full Protection " as I was having issues with Box (which doesn't need partial security anymore) and a driver to my external LaCie 2Big which was actually slowing the drive down and doesn't need it to function.

Here's the settings for both versions of AE that I use - maybe this will help someone?

Intel version:

M1 beta version:

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kidcrayon

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Thanks for this. I'm still experiencing it reagrdless of changing settings.

Also, I'm now running into an issue with Media Encoder not accepting any work exported from main file in AE so I can't render anything now.

I knw it's a running joke with AE being such a hog on processing power but with the new mac, it feels like they can't hide behind this issue any longer. It's as though the app itself just takes over any capacity you have at default. I've never, in the last decade, ever had a normal functioning AE... and that's just mad how we even accept this as a standard.

I hope someone from Adobe sorts this out once and for all.

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kidcrayon

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It seems to be an issue with other apps, not just Adobe:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/02/application-memory-error-affecting-many-mac-apps-intel-as-well-as-m1/

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keyjonathan

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My whole team is having the same problem with M1 Max (64GB RAM)

juicybiscuit

Participating Frequently

AE is in a kind of garbagey state at this moment. Another major annoyance - the complete inability of AE to ever respect the Maximum Disk Cache limit that you set in preferences. Adobe - there's zero point adding an option for the user to set a limit if that limit is completely ignored.

juicybiscuit

Participating Frequently

Still getting issues. Cannot even render some relatively lightweight but long in duration comps as the computer dies when memory runs out (Max M1 64GB). Just insane how it gobbles up ram until there is no more.....

Conrad_C

Community Expert

Just a troubleshooting step to try and isolate the problem…

Is everyone who is having this problem using the current release which is not optimized for Apple Silicon?

Does the memory problem still happen when working in the After Effects public beta that is optimized for Apple Silicon?

I’m just wondering if it has to do with the higher and more complex memory usage of running a Rosetta app that is also RAM hungry. I recently did a personal project using the Apple Silicon public beta of After Effects and had no memory issues on my 32GB M1 Pro, but it was a rather modest project.

If it can be shown that the Apple Silicon-native version still has the memory problem, it needs to be reported in the After Effects beta forum ASAP, so that maybe it can be fixed before the Apple Silicon-native beta becomes the official version.

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stevenprobets

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My issues are with the latest After Effects beta. The project isn't huge either.

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Luciano Foglia

Participating Frequently

This needs to be addressed ASAP. I am running AE passively in the background. Not running or rendering the timeline or anything in the program at all. And it is sucking so much memory that my SWAP is going high. Come on, do some work Adobe!

M1 Pro Macbook PRO

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kidcrayon

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Same here. M1 Max (64gb). I've turned off all caching. I erased all cached files. I played through one clip (4k iphone clip / @283052 / 650mb file / no effects). Notification pops up half way through preview saying the application is running at 50gb and must close.

At least I haven't waited over 2 months for this to be delivered.... fml.

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stevenprobets

Known Participant

I am using 64Gb M1 Pro, Monetrery 12.1 and After Effects 22.2....... also have this problem! Any response from Adobe?

Thanks

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SK Studios

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I've yet to see anything of value to help the situation. I've found some old posts from Adobe saying that they "cannot recreate the problem" with users arguing with them that it is indeed a widespread issue, but that was from a while back I think.

Still searching high and low for a solution, as EVERY Adobe product I use causes this problem, "using" upwards of 40GB of memory that doesn't exist.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

Apple just released a macOS 12.1 update. The Apple release notes don’t mention anything about memory bug fixes, but it’s worth trying…if you install 12.1, is the memory usage improved?