AE crashes when selecting any Apple's SF Pro Font Family

Report · Mar 17, 2022

Adobe After Effects crashes when you're doing :

Track Camera
Set as Ground Plane
Place Text on Ground Plane
You select the Text layer, and set the Font to any "SF Pro" font family

You can find the Apple SF Pro font family here. It's Apple's System font, and can also be used as a Modern Sans font or for animating any Apple related design use cases (e.g. UI design on Apple platforms, that's why it's important this gets fixed)

For some reasons, it crashes AE by just selecting it.
But apparently, it doesn't crash AE when applying the font in non-tracked camera (normal Text layer).

You may find the behavior on this screen capture video : https://cln.sh/95f0nG

AE Error Logs here : https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/b761fbff-d5d1-46f4-58bc-c1ca8236ed61

Thanks. Let me know if you guys have fixed this yet.

Report · Mar 17, 2022

To add : I am on Macbook Air M1 btw. On macOS Monterrey 12.3
Using the latest AE version 22.2.1 Build 3, running on Rosetta 2

Report · Apr 22, 2022

Hi Mancerrss:

We made a fix specific to this particular Font - Apple SF Pro version 17.1d1e1 - released in 22.3, which is available for update from Creative Cloud.

Appreciate hearing if this update stops yours crashes.

Douglas Waterfall

After Effects Engineering

Report · May 26, 2022

SF Pro is still extremely slow to work with on Apple M1 machines with the latest update to AE (https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/after-effects-really-slow-with-sf-pro-font/...)

Report · May 26, 2022

We recently integrated some improvments which target fonts like these - if you are able, please try our Beta 22.5.0 (Build 36) currently available on CC and please share your experience.

SF Pro Compact Display is what I have tested with and it is 3x faster now, but still 3x slower than say Arial. In my opinion it takes it from being impossible to being just sluggish.

Douglas Waterfall

After Effects Engineering

Report · Jun 10, 2022

It's like night and day for me on a Macbook Pro with M1 Max chip. The 22.4 build was impossibly slow when using SF Pro. The 22.5 seems pasable so far. I can actually make edits.