Sorry, I offended you. My comments are directed to all the folks that use this forum to try and improve their workflow or solve problems. RogsCa, the OP, gave no indication of his experience level. He only said that CS6 was faster at saving and opening projects and that his were taking a long time to save.
There can be a lot more going on in a CC project than in a CS6 project, and AE has gotten more picky about video formats than it used to be. A project with 200 compressed video clips is going to take a lot longer to open and save than a project with 200 production friendly video clips. These are all considerations that any AE user trying to improve his productivity must think about. I wish AE was more efficient at saving projects, but for now, you have to at least consider the consequences of throwing all of your assets into a single project file. It's hardly ever a really good idea.
In my experience, most of the folks that I have trained and worked within the last 25 years try and edit in AE. Almost everybody I have ever worked with that has less than a couple hundred hours of experience create comps that are too long to efficiently manage and a surprising number of them have comps that re-render footage has had no change at all to any of the pixels in the frame. I have seen countless examples of folks fiddling with camera tracking a 30-second shot or rotoscoping an entire actor when all that was really needed was to work on a small portion of 20 or 30 frames. Short comps that contain only the layers and effects needed to complete the effects shot are much more efficient to handle than throwing everything in a single comp or even in a single AEP file.
I have written, produced and directed hundreds of presenter videos that were 30 minutes or longer. I can't ever remember intentionally doing one in a single shot because that's a pretty lousy way to tell a story. If I was doing presenter videos like you describe with a single shot of the presenter in front of a green screen that was a half hour long I would break the show up into at the very least, paragraphs, each paragraph would be a separate composition. I may combine the comps in a final comp or render them using Render Garden and complete the edit in Premiere Pro because I could handle the composites, the motion graphics, and every part of the project more efficiently, get done in less time, do a better job and have a lot easier time making changes than I could with a single half-hour comp with hundreds or thousands of layers.
if that's the way you work and have worked for years, and you see no need to try and make your life easier by giving some thought to the process then be my guest. I don't have time to enter a race to complete the same 20-minute video, but I can tell you that it is much easier to make changes the client wants in at the 8-minute mark if that part of the show is a comp with 10 layers and 2 nested animations than if it was in a 20 minute comp with four or five hundred layers you needed to move around.
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