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teaguehayes
teaguehayes
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September 28, 2022

RAM Preview not real time on MacBook Pro M1 Max

  • September 28, 2022
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I'm currently having to use After Effects 2021 instead of 2022 because 2022 will not RAM preview in real time. I'm running a brand spankin' new 16" MacBook Pro M1 Max with 64GB Unified Memory & 4TB of space. The system is screaming fast so this AE issue is evidently a bug. Please fix as soon as possible Adobe because AE 2022 looks amazing and I'm dying to dive in.
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    Thomas25259530bvpq
    Known Participant
    September 28, 2022
    Same issue, working on an M1 Macbook, with AE 22.6 and Monterey, with or without Rosetta, it gives me the same issue and does not allow me to preview more than 5 frames at a time. It only works for a few minutes after a clean reboot and then changes and only allows you to preview a few frames, which is completely unworkable. I wish Adobe would fix all their issues and improve their performance on all their products before releasing new tools and features.
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    robertd69306378
    Participating Frequently
    September 28, 2022
    Echoing others. Renders a few frames and then comes up with low memory warning.
    vdøg
    vdøg
    Participating Frequently
    September 28, 2022
    yeah same here, best and quickest way I found to fix this is to RESTART AE...
    I know it's annoying.
    btw shortcut to restart latest project is ⌘⌥⇧P
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    345111333
    Participant
    September 28, 2022
    Chiming in. Trying to do work on this is impossible. Won’t render more than a few frames at a time. Renders taking forever and are often colour inaccurate (although it seems the latest 22.6 has fixed some of that). I switched back to my 2018 intel mbp 13” and it runs better than my M1 Max 32GB MBP. Very frustrating trying to hit deadlines. Spoke with Adobe support last night and they couldn’t figure it out and said a more “senior agent” will be in touch with me.
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    George Radu
    Participant
    September 28, 2022
    Same problem here, I can not even play a 4k video without any edits in it. Tried all the versions so far, 22.6 22.5 22.4 22.3 - the app is not usable, it makes you go crazy even with the small edits ... this needs to be fixed (using an MBP M1 16GB ram)
    benr85342125
    benr85342125
    Participant
    September 28, 2022
    After Effects 22.6.0 MacBook Pro M1 16GB ram - I can barely use RAM preview at all and rendering is super slow in AE and Media Encoder. This needs to be fixed.
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    FJ Edit
    Participant
    September 28, 2022
    Hi! I'm also having problems with broken RAM Previews with the latest version Apple Silicon version of AE 22.5.0 running on a M1 Max, Macbook Pro, 64GB, 4TB Monterey 12.5.

    At some point, around 20 GB into my disk cache, it refuses to re-cache, replace or play any of the old blue rendered parts. creating lots of gaps and shrinking the green parts more and more each time I want to preview until I'm left with just a few frames. A quick fix is to Clear my Disk cache (set to 200gb), but this will only fix the problem temporarily, especially when using a ProRes clip in my timeline. 20 gb is easily filled in minutes.

    Hope this will be fixed soon, bc I like certain performance improvements already. But like everybody is really asking, it really feels like a tedious slow process, just at some point have the guts to re-engineer the * program from scratch :). Personally would rather loose a few favourite old plug-ins and scripts in favour of a real rock solid competitor to other vfx motion design tools that fits the need of modern artists and programmers.
    Dierenwinkel Doc
    Dierenwinkel Doc
    Inspiring
    September 28, 2022
    With ram preview fully green. My M1 Max still struggles to play back my ram preview at 30fps.... why? Its ram previewed... it should be playing back at realtime.
    It hovers around 24-28fps seems to only be happening when i have motion blur enabled.
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    Matnesss
    Known Participant
    September 28, 2022
    Just a tip from a long time AE user. I have never found rendering via Media Encoder reliable. Best to render ProRes (or other non-temporarly compressed codec) directly from AE, then compress that to H264 (or other destination format) via Media Encoder. You get better file size and quality for your final H264.
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    brians67211052
    Participant
    September 28, 2022
    Echoing the same sentiments around render preview issues, but also – and even worse – are failures to send to media encoder, encoding render times are long, ME render failures, AE crashes, infinity beach ball and generally poor processing. To get projects to completely render I must restart the machine and in some cases I have had to resort to splicing together multiple renders into one final comp just to get the job done.

    Essentially at work stoppage.

    MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021)
    Apple M1 Max, 32 GB
    Monterey 12.5
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