After Effects really slow with SF Pro Font

Report · Apr 01, 2021

Hello all,

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.

Comp:
Ryzen 1700x
32gb ram
1080ti

Report · Apr 25, 2023

I have the same problem with the "Inter" font family on my Mac laptop. I'm on the latest OS with Ventura. Whenever I select Inter as a font family to animate with in After Effects, it slows RIGHT DOWN, and it's affecting my workflow. Any thoughts or suggestions on what I can do to help fix this?

Thanks in advance

Report · Apr 26, 2023

My advice is to use a different font manager. FontBook comes with your Mac
and is not a professional-level tool. I switched to a different font
manager and my AE problems with SF Pro went away. Maybe could work with
"Inter"?

Report · Aug 03, 2023

I'm currently dealing with fonts crippling AE (inter, arial, sharp sans) and it just started yesterday. I'm not sure what's going on but my only work around has been to turn the fonts off while working. This is August 2023

M1 Macbook pro

Ventura 13.5
64G Ram (using 4%)

AE version 23.5.0

Report · Aug 16, 2023

Hi Bevan Bell -Cisco,

Sorry to hear that.

Are these external fonts or were they included with the OS installation? Could you elaborate more on crippling? If possible, share a screen recording that shows the issue.

Looking forward to your response.

Thanks,

Nishu

Report · Aug 17, 2023

Here's a link to a screen capture. The text I'm using is Inter. Whenever I inroduce a text layer AE becomes very slow to respond near the point of unuseable.
It doesn't seem to change if I try to change the font. I thought if I used the text within it's own comp, that might help but the problem persists. Doesn't seem to be a RAM problem, but it does seem to be struggling like it were a RAM issue.
https://vimeo.com/855538691/0db0177b4e?share=copy

Report · Aug 24, 2023

Thanks for sharing the screen recording.

It looks like a font-related issue. I could be wrong. For testing, could you try running After Effects in Safe Mode, creating a new project, and using a different font? Try using a font that comes preinstalled with the OS. If everything goes well, then use the Inter font again.

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,

Nishu

Report · Oct 06, 2023

It seems like the amount of text in a sequence is being problematic. Different project, but I'm now having issues with the amount of titles, changing titles, and everything being jammed up and the slowest of slow.