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Elyse Da Silva
Elyse Da Silva
Inspiring
January 19, 2024
Question

Extremely slow frame render rate... hardly workable. Any suggestions?

  • January 19, 2024
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Hi there, 
relativley new to animation and yet my company has asked me to create an explainer video for them. I'm desperately trying to work on this but my AE on my Macbook Pro is hardly workable. I've attached a screenshot of my Mac Chip and memory specs, and I truly don't know if my computer is up to this or not. 

I also attached a screenshot of my After Effects version. I've not added anything special to it, just downloaded it and began working. I will say that I am working from hefty illustrator files that I am converting into shape layers, and there's a lot of shape layers lol. You can kind of see a sliver of what I'm trying to work on in the AE screenshot. 

I can't even scroll through my layers without it being choppy and sometimes getting the spinning wheel. How on earth am I supposed to animate this thing? Any suggestions on how to fix this? 

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    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    January 19, 2024

    You kind of answered your own question: unless you actually have to animate the path vertex by vertex, there's no reason to convert your AI artwork and even then you do so selectively strictly based on what's needed. I'm sure if you drill open your layers there's a quadrizillion shape layer groups and those take time to process. It's simply a bad workflow. That and of course there's several bugs that make AE slow down randomly on MX Mac's, but that's just the old Adobe vs. Apple nonsense for you like it always has been...

     

    Mylenium 

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