After Effects 2021 (18.0.1) has a real hard time processing the Mac standard SF Pro font on my Windows device. I installed it like any other font (unpackaged the OTF from the Apple website) and it works fine in all other programs, but for some reason After Effects doesn't like it? The 3-minute animation (motion blur, 20+ layers, with camera video) can render within 4 minutes, but when I put the lower thirds in render time skyrockets to almost 2 hours.
It took me a while to figure out that it was the specific font, but I tested it with other windows & Adobe native fonts, and render time was fixed.
Not sure if anyone has experienced this, or found a solution, but any help would be great! Normally, I would pick another font but brand requirements and whatnot.
Having the same issue here - the moment I changed to the SF font, AE is barely responsive at all. I've yet to try converting the fonts to TTF's or something else. Will give that a shot.
Just tested other OTF vs TTF fonts on my computer and none of them cause any performance issues. The only one that does it is the SF family... I'm stumped.
I'm also having this issue and I couldn't find a workaround. I downloaded the fonts from Apple but they make my AE run painfully slow. Has anyone found a solution?
Same issue - on an extremely tight turn project (of course) where I'm animating product interactions. The only workaround I can think of is to set all the type ahead of time in Illustrator or some such.
Wow, I'm glad i'm not the only one. The moment I added this font as live text my performance tanked. I'm on an iMac 4.2GhZ i7, 32GB ram, Radeon Pro 580 8GB gpu. I'm looking at 1h+ render time for 4 seconds of animation.
Hi Nishu! This problem only happens on Mac from what I understood, I also noticed some people reporting this issue on other forums and they were also on Mac. It seems to happen when you install the most updated fonts from the original source.
If you find an install older versions of SF fonts, the lag is gone.
Just noticed the original post was from a person using Windows. Maybe mine is a different issue from the person who posted the original post or maybe its related to rendering of the newest SF fonts.
Me on my side, I'm having severe crashes when using a Text Layer in a Tracked Camera. The font is working well in a normal Text layer tho, but on a Tracked Camera it crashes it.
Just FYI - Not sure if this will work for everyone, but I downloaded the SF Pro fonts from cufonfonts.com and installed them with Suitcase Fusion, as opposed to the Apple versions that come with their own installer, and I'm no longer having the issue.
Is there a work around until a fix is forthcoming? I have an AE project to mimic a iPad app and the SF font makes it nearly impossible to navigate around.
OMG, this has been killing me for nearly 2 weeks! The sluggish delay just to paste text and move the field is painfully slow, but the render times... what would normally be a 30 second render in ME took almost 40 minutes with the SF Hello font. Reinstalling the font made no difference. Other typical fonts are no problem. Has anyone cracked the mystery on this yet???
I've started two new projects with two different newly-installed fonts and am having the same exact issue everyone else is describing. I don't think this issue is unique to one specific font, unfortunately. I had to find an older version of the same font from a sketchy site online before AE stopped running absurdly slow with it.
Unfortunately, this new project of mine uses a custom typeface for the brand, so I'm sort of SOL on this one.
It's really unbelievable that this is still a problem. I'm unable to work properly because of this. It's been months since this was reported. Is there any updates on this as it's still the same on AE beta?
I have a similar problem on my Macbook Pro and Macbook Air. I hoped for version 22, which is referenced by support before the release, but the problem has not been resolved.
For those using the SF Pro or SF Hello fonts, and are experiencing this performance issue in Adobe After Effects, please let me know which version you are using. You can use the Font Book app or the Finder (File > Get Info or Command-I) to get the version number, which should follow the pattern nn.ndnen. I have a theory as to what is causing this particular performance issue, and knowing the version would be helpful.
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