How are we supposed to be working with AE?

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After effects is one of the most buggy and inconsistent "Industry Standarts" i have ever come across. I'm working with a pretty beefy PC and AE is not even capable of playing the Preview of a 30sec Comp. Meanwhile i'm over here in Blender (etc.) and can get almost real time playback while doing complicated 3D simulations. How can AE be so inefficient with current Hardware? (3070ti/10700k/32GB/2TB/Win11) It's driving me crazy!! Get your act togehter and stop selling us 30 year old code. The only solution i can see, is  to develope a workflow in Blender for all my 2D-Animation needs, just to get AE out of my life.

Warren Heaton · Answer

Sorry to hear you cannot Preview a Composition with a duration of 30 seconds.

Have you tried any of the options to make Previews faster like lowering the Composition Resolution or skipping frames?

Unless processsor intesive effects are being applied to the Layers, I would expect a system with 32GB of RAM, i7 processor that's not more than 5 years old or any Apple Silicon based system, to cache and play a 2160p24 Comp that's 30 seconds long at Quarter or Half resolution without skipping frames rather easily.

Have you tried any of the troubleshooting steps from the After Effects User Guide?

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