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ashpou
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March 5, 2019
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Project loading for ever (mac spinning wheel)- AE_CC2019

  • March 5, 2019
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Hi !

I am contacting you because i'm working on a very large After Effect file for a client since 2 years now with a lot of assets and comps in it.

The project got bigger and bigger as we added many things into it along the way, and we had to update the project every time a new Creative Cloud Update was available.

I know that it's not a good idea to update files when in production, but we wanted to use new features of AE (.mogrt for instance) in our workflow.

Currently, the AE file is 121,5mo and all the Assets used in it weights 505Go.

Anyway, i'm still working on this same file currently, and now i have a very hard time opening it and even working on it. Most of the time the project freezes and stays forever on the mac spinning wheel. When i'm lucky, i don't why exactly, the project opens very quickly and i can work on it, but 99% of the time it freezes at opening.

To avoid this issue, I am currently trying to re-organize the project and split it into many different smaller projects to make the files lighter and easier to debug.

Do you have any idea why sometimes it opens fast and most of the time doesn't open at all (i mean freezes at opening).

Here are specs of my machine and AE versions :

MacPro Trashcan Late 2013 (known for thermal throttling issues)
Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 - 3,7Ghz
32Go of DDR3 RAM

AMD Firepro D700

macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (scared to update to Mojave since I don't know if it is stable with Creative Cloud).

AE 16.0.1 (Build 48)

Thanks in advance,

Rafael

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Correct answer Doc Maik

Why use such huge projects? Just to have all comps under one click? No goo idea. You should split projects and if you need, you can make a superior one, because projects can be nested. I'd say you stress AE to its limits.

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Legend
March 8, 2019

Why use such huge projects? Just to have all comps under one click? No goo idea. You should split projects and if you need, you can make a superior one, because projects can be nested. I'd say you stress AE to its limits.

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ashpouAuthor
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March 9, 2019

Yes i guess i did not see it coming, i started small, than added bunch of things along the way and told myself that i would clean and split the project into smaller ones later... 2 years passed and i'm still using the same project.. So yes totally agree i didn't think that through.

Anyway the good news is that i opened it up on a powerful PC workstation and it was quite fast to open so i'm going to break it down into smaller files on the other machine !

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