I'm running AE 22.0.1 on my M1 iMac (16GB Ram) with no issues. Yet when I render videos on my M1 Max (32GB RAM) I'm getting error messages saying "Your system has run our of Application Memory" or it simple has the goat yell at me and it crashes.
22.0 worked perfectly. I'm sure its a new bug, just putting it out there.
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Same problem, even on a 64GB M1 Max. Changing Memory settings in AE doesn't seem to do anything.
But I was having these memory problems with 22.0 (and even with the M1 Native Betas).
Anyone have a solution? I have to constantly purge memory to get work done. Besides that annoying problem, AE flies on this thing. Might be an Apple Problem
Having the exact same issue uing AE 20.0.0 on a new M1 MacBook Pro 64GB. Getting pop up from ios saying I'm out of memory simply while working, not rendering.
I'm running AE projects that my older Intel MacBook Pro 2018 laptop ran without issues. It is making workflow difficult because I'm also purging the cashe to avoid crashes. I've read this is an issue with other applications too so possibly a Mac thing, hopefully can get sorted soon via an update or something. Keen to hear if anyone has any similar issues or work arounds.
Well one thing you can do is make sure that "Cache frames when idle" is turned off in the "Composition/Preview..." menu. I find it's trying to cache the entire work area, which in my current case it over a minute long, which messes everything up when working.
Exact same problem here with my 64Gb M1 Max. Trying to set up to work on a commercial job alongside other machines and it's powerful - when it works, but this is massively frustrating. Any workarounds appreciated. Don't want to purge every x frames if I can help it as the render time will go up exponentially and defeat buying such a poweful laptop.
I switched over the the latest Beta AE 22.1.1 (Build 68) and am still getting this issue. Extremely dissapointing, gives you 'range anxiety', I'm missing my previous machine where it seemed to mangage the memory in the background and I never confronted this issue.
I'm having to purge memory constantly which is really a disruptive workflow. Definitly my biggest pain point, they're selling this technology on the performace of this software suite – this should be a P1 bug that needs to be addressed ASAP.
Thanks for sharing your same issue and I encourage any other users to do the same.
Not saying Adobe is in the clear because no one’s posted confirmed info about whether After Effects is free of problems; some may be seeing different combinations of causes that could be in both After Effects and macOS. It will probably take a few updates of both macOS and the application to sort it all out.
True, and thnaks for the links. I actually just throttled the default AE 'Memory & Performance' settings basically halving them which has helped prevent the issue for now. Just a bit confused as I've never had to mess with those values in the past and always used the default settings recommended in After Effects. But as you said not certain if it's a Adobe or Mac thing or both.
Can confirm bug same happening in 22.0.1 M1 Max 64GB. Driving me nuts. Checked out the Monterey links below regarding custom pointers (which I DO use). Have turned off and problem persists.
Have turned off Cache frames when idlea and this definitely seems to help stop the issue. Not sure why it's endlessly caching frames to the point of running out of memory. Seems like a definite bug as I don't recall it happening in 22.0
Having a similar issue with my M1 Max 32c 32gb but in other adobe suites as well. I get photoshop telling me iv ram out of application memory doing tasks I could do on my old intel. I talked to the guy at the apple store he said it's now a known issue do to with some elements of photoshop/adobe apps not being optimized to work with more then 16gb of ram (the old M1 ram maximum) hopefully this should be cleared up quickly it's makes me want to use my old computer
I upgraded to a 2tb ssd and 64 gb of ram and my computer does not go over 55% memeory pressure ever anymore. Just received it a few days ago and I'm not sure if they changed something from the first shipments of the computer but it works flawlessly even when I'm running photoshop and Lightroom and final cut at the same time it doesn't slow down or go above 45-55% memory pressure for some reason.
Apple just released a macOS 12.1 update. The Apple release notes don’t mention anything about memory bug fixes, but it’s worth trying…if you install 12.1, is the memory usage improved?
I've yet to see anything of value to help the situation. I've found some old posts from Adobe saying that they "cannot recreate the problem" with users arguing with them that it is indeed a widespread issue, but that was from a while back I think.
Still searching high and low for a solution, as EVERY Adobe product I use causes this problem, "using" upwards of 40GB of memory that doesn't exist.
Same here. M1 Max (64gb). I've turned off all caching. I erased all cached files. I played through one clip (4k iphone clip / @60fps / 650mb file / no effects). Notification pops up half way through preview saying the application is running at 50gb and must close.
At least I haven't waited over 2 months for this to be delivered.... fml.
This needs to be addressed ASAP. I am running AE passively in the background. Not running or rendering the timeline or anything in the program at all. And it is sucking so much memory that my SWAP is going high. Come on, do some work Adobe!
I’m just wondering if it has to do with the higher and more complex memory usage of running a Rosetta app that is also RAM hungry. I recently did a personal project using the Apple Silicon public beta of After Effects and had no memory issues on my 32GB M1 Pro, but it was a rather modest project.
If it can be shown that the Apple Silicon-native version still has the memory problem, it needs to be reported in the After Effects beta forum ASAP, so that maybe it can be fixed before the Apple Silicon-native beta becomes the official version.
Still getting issues. Cannot even render some relatively lightweight but long in duration comps as the computer dies when memory runs out (Max M1 64GB). Just insane how it gobbles up ram until there is no more.....
AE is in a kind of garbagey state at this moment. Another major annoyance - the complete inability of AE to ever respect the Maximum Disk Cache limit that you set in preferences. Adobe - there's zero point adding an option for the user to set a limit if that limit is completely ignored.
There seem to be multiple problems with AE under rosetta on the M1 Max. Users are also reporting that previews are much slower than on Intel computers with the same AE version. Have you encountered that issue as well on the M1 Max?
If so, there is a user voice post to vote on to get adobe to address this issue:
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