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Kea Leens
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November 11, 2013
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After effects CC on maverick slow render because of PP CC Dynamic Link Footage

  • November 11, 2013
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I put premiere pro CC edits in After Effects CC through dynamic Link every day. Since I upgraded my systems to Maverick and first installed the 12.0.1 and afterwards 12.1 the rendering of the After effects projects that have Dynamic Link Edits on the timeline slow down from 10 hours (in12.0 on Mountain Lion) to about 90 hours. When I replace the dynamic Link with a QT Movie, it renders about 10 hours again. It is normal that Dynamic link slows dow the rendering, but this is extreme and since this wasn't the case on Mountain Lion and 12.0 for the same project with the same dynamic link, not normal. I couldn't figure out what causes this. Is this Maverick on my 2008 Mac Pro ? is this a bug in 12.1 or dynamic link ? Or can I solve this with a simple setting somewhere in Maverick or AE ?

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      Correct answer AEZ125

      I have had some issues with render times and serveral slowdowns in premiere, after effects and encore after mavericks update, I found in other forums that the new feature called power nap was the problem, after disabling it, adobe prodcuts work like a charm. Go to your application folder, right click your app and check the option to disable power nap, tell me if it work for you.

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      TBH12345
      Participant
      November 26, 2014

      It is indeed app nap that is causing the problems. If you open activity monitor and add the 'app nap' view in the monitor you will see that AE has it still activated. I have tried everything to turn it off but it clearly is still running and not allowing PR to communicate with AE and therefore render a dynamic linked sequence.

      mojareeves1
      mojareeves1
      Participating Frequently
      November 6, 2014

      What is the go with this? The new update is still more unstable than the previous version when using dynamic link. I have to deal with this every day and I would love an update on when this will be addressed.

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      Diiorio
      Participating Frequently
      November 6, 2014

      This is y I did not upgrade pp or Ae after upgrading to Yosemite.  It seems stable to me with pp 2014.0.1.  It ain't broke now so I ain't fixing it.

      Sincerely,

      Digital Production Group, LLC

      Http://www.dpgnc.com


      Edit: personal info removed.

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      Milan_Michalik
      Participating Frequently
      November 8, 2014

      Same here, the dynamic link is worse and worse each release. If my AE is open, I can't render or play Premiere seq with linked AE seqs more for a year now. What Adobe beta testers do?

      Do you release these versions for the shareholders or for the artists?

      I lost my hope for the future of Adobe workflow. The fixes take ages and every new fix brings more bugs.

      mojareeves1
      mojareeves1
      Participating Frequently
      October 21, 2014

      This problem has got worse with the 2014.1 update. I now get more dropped frames, the playhead is sometimes unresponsive for a few seconds when working on sequences with dynamic link comps and comps also go offline when I close my AE project in order to be able to play back sequences in Premiere.

      I was hoping the update would bring bug fixes and improvements to workflows, so far it seems to be a different colour scheme and fancy markers.

      Micka Mex
      Micka Mex
      Participant
      November 4, 2014

      I completely agree. The update is horrible. I've wasted a complete week trying to cope, but I can't. So unsatisfying.

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        EchoOut
        Participating Frequently
        September 30, 2014

        After Effects CC 2014 doesn't have the "Prevent App Nap" switch and the Terminal command seems to have no effect. This is really holding up my projects that worked fine in CC.

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          Mike08594
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          July 18, 2014

          I'm was having the same issues, turned off "app nap" for premiere and after effects which has mostly fixed things.

          The only thing now though is if I have a dynamic linked after effects composition within premiere and I have the after effects project open (that the composition came from) the dynamic linked comp within premiere won't play properly no matter what.

          Tried everything I can find on the net - app nap, full screen full res rendering within after effects - that composition just won't play and take ages to render if the after effects project that it came from is open.

          If I close the after effects project, the dynamically linked composition in premiere starts playing perfectly. Open the project in after effects and that dynamically linked comps stop playing. Any other dynamically linked comps from other AE sessions play fine within premiere (unless I open their original AE project!)

          This used to work fine before - it was great to be able to have AE and premiere open together and make changes in AE then switch to premiere to see the changes update, watch the sequence to get context, then flick back to AE, make more changes etc.

          Now I have to close the AE project, go to premiere, watch the sequence, open the AE project, make changes. When doing a few hundred adjustments over a week this can add considerable time to workflow!

          Any ideas? Is this happening for you guys?

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          AEZ125Correct answer
          Participating Frequently
          December 9, 2013

          I have had some issues with render times and serveral slowdowns in premiere, after effects and encore after mavericks update, I found in other forums that the new feature called power nap was the problem, after disabling it, adobe prodcuts work like a charm. Go to your application folder, right click your app and check the option to disable power nap, tell me if it work for you.

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            dzsokolino
            Participating Frequently
            December 18, 2013

            You are the man! It made ma crazy, 3 minutes video were rendering for 3 hours. With one simple Dynamic link. Now it is way faster! Thanks a lot.

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            Kea LeensAuthor
            Participant
            November 18, 2013

            no ideas ?

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            SteevCo
            Participating Frequently
            November 22, 2013

            Hey Kea,

            I was having a very similar problem. I wasn't able to solve the issue as such, but I did find that if I quit After Effects before attempting to render my PP timeline with the linked comps in it it worked just fine. The speediness we had pre-Mavericks returned.

            Now, admittedly, this isn't a perfect solution. I mean, every time I want to make a change to one of the linked comps I need to re-open AE, make the change, then close it again, but it does let me finish rendering the project before I grow a long gray beard.

            Definitely something to put forward to the powers that be.

            Good luck and hope this helps!

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              Kea LeensAuthor
              Participant
              November 23, 2013

              I'm going to try it, I noticed that it isn't happening all the time. I think you shouldn't touch premiere at all when rendering. Yesterday I rendered two 15s ads with only one text layer that had different information. They both had the same dynamic link sequence and all the graphics and effects were the same. The first one rendered in 7 minutes, the second in 16 minutes ...  I once thought it had to do with the cache folder that was growing to his limits but when I purged the cache it wasn't solved.

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