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After Effects is unbelievably slow on M1 Macbook

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July 24, 2021
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Hello everyone, I have been using AE for 3 years. I was using a windows PC in the beginings of my experience which had 16 GB ram and i7 intel CPU. 4 months ago I switched my system into Apple and I was expecting a relief on my workflow, but I have exteremely disappointed. AE runs slower than my 5-year-old PC. Previews are ridiculously slow, renders are boring. Last day I worked on a small 20-25 sec. footage, on which just I applied an camera blur with automation, it took about 1 hour to work and render the file.

Does anybody know when will the optimization arrives? Because I'm not getting what I pay for.

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Kevin2455631005kl

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Hi, I hope this helps, I was trying to rotoscope clips in premiere pre using the dynamic link, having big problems, I was getting warnings about the framerate, I tried multiple methods that I found on youtube, and it still super laggy and i was left with a poorly rendered clip... Until i used this method! I first of all created a proxy for all my clips in premiere pro, then created a duplicate of the clip that i wanted to to rotoscope, then I turned off all the effects of the clip apart from motion i then nested the clip and proceeded to click replace clip with aftereffects composition... in after effects i chose the composition in the project window and created another proxy in after effects, then precomposed the clip, and after that rotoscoping worked seamlessly like in seconds it was done and i the chose to freeze it and went back to premiere pro and the clip was rotoscoped and working seamlessly... I'm on a 16gb M1 btw! I made a video and posted it on youtube hopefully this will help a lot of people from jumping through hoops or looking to upgrade their computer! https://youtu.be/izOS89KW4xI

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Jürg5FCD

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The latest AE Version for m1 seems to work pretty fine in my cases so far. But I only use plugins who are optimised for m1.

Working with Blender does work, but a bit unstable and the rendering is much slower than on my rtx 3070 pc laptop.

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claytonb69055831

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I also have this problem. I teach After Effects, and my students are on 5 year-old imacs that are running circles around my brand new M1 laptop. It's staggeringly, astonishingly slow. Trying to use the 2D tracker - forget it. Camera tracker - impossible. I'm really glad to see I'm not the only one.

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DarkmanMsk

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try to off multiframe rendering. I do this, and my project who was render 1 hour was render for 8 minutes. Amazing ) sorry for bad english, but i think what this important.

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davidb46026235

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Hi all, please post your comments also on Adobe User Voice. Here is a post where you can vote on this topic to be addressed by Adobe and add more information for them.

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911311-after-effects/suggestions/44654946-ram-preview-not-r...

Adobe may not be aware how many users are still finding after effects RAM previews and interface performance extremely slow on MacBook Pro M1 and M1 Max computers, and the user voice site is more closely monitored.

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dejank83925505

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I agree preview on Macbook Pro M1 32gb RAM is basically unusable for me on even native version. I am left with returning the machine because youtubers are paid not too point out to this crucial issue. Its 4x faster previews on my 10yo PC, when previewing quater resolution same as I tried on macbook pro but it was unusable 0.2fps. This is beyond ridiculous.

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Jürg5FCD

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Some users who recently upgraded to macOS Monterey are experiencing a bug known as a "memory leak," a scenario in which a specific macOS process or application is bugged out and stays running for prolonged periods in the background, consuming abnormally high amounts of memory or RAM.

Source: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/01/macos-monterey-memory-leak-user-reports/

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Jürg5FCD

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Its not better with the ultra:

Double the price for just 25% more speed….

They trick the numbers even in their Presentation Videos.

https://youtu.be/FS0bnE5Yf1k

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Peter23526835my94

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Unbelievably bad performance! Very difficult to work. Reverting to Intel machine and just using the M1 to render. To use F1 parlance "quick in a straight line - but can't corner!"

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davidb46026235

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Having the same problem with a brand new M1 pro max 64GB MacBook Pro. After effects version 22 previews are unusably slow even at quarter res in a simple comp. I tried the beta and it seems reasonable but many plugins I rely on are not yet supported on M1 so this is not an option. What is strange is that I have asked other users of this same computer if they are having the same trouble, and some are while others have no problems. Are some of these computers buggy? Is there some particular system setup that causes the issue?

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Jürg5FCD

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Its still a young m1 version. In some jears - right before they change to a other cpu system - it will work pretty well.

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Mitchellhart

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I had this problem on a new M1 Pro, but I found a fix, at least for now. Trash the preferences by holding Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while launching After Effects. Then can release the Alt or Option key when the splash screen appears.

Feels much faster and I can at least keep working.