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RogsCra
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February 27, 2018
Question

After Effects saving takes 5 minutes or more

  • February 27, 2018
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CPU: Ryzen 7 1700x

GPU: GTX 1070 Ti

Ram: 16 GB

Most current version of AE: 2018 CC

I have searched very long with no answers that worked. Ive tried moving the save file, from HDD to SSD, clearing cache, etc. The project have 5 gb of items in it, but no effects no nothing. Just like 6 10 second clips in a timeline.

The problem: I save, or it auto saves, and it stops responding for a solid 3 minutes. Nothing is maxed out in my resource monitor. All of a sudden, it starts working again and saves basically instantly. Why is this and how do I fix it? Please help.

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      maxw93641147
      Participant
      February 22, 2024

      You HAVE to keep the projects in after effects very small in the latest edition. 

       

      If you're importing projects, especially those created externally, my best advice is to go into the project you want, single out the element/comp you're after, render it with alpha and import that in only.

       

      Go into your slow project and select the comps you need, then reduce project.

       

      You need to keep the project small.

      rebane2001
      rebane2001
      Participant
      June 15, 2021

      Had the same issue, nothing else worked for me but I found a really really weird solution that fixed everything.

       

      I opened the project and deleted all items and saved. Then I pressed ctrl+z and deleted everything but one item and saved. Then I pressed ctrl+z and deleted everything but two items and saved and so on until I went through all the items in my project panel. Eventually I pressed ctrl+z to go back to the initial state and saved.

       

      This somehow fixed my problem and I have no idea why this worked but it took my project save time from 20 minutes down to less than a second.

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      Gareso@Res
      Participant
      October 28, 2020

      Don't ask me why, but I was having the same issue and it was driving me crazy. Tried everything, until I emptied the Render Queue. Problem solved over here.

       

      So yes, just try emptying the Render Queue.

      Hope it helps.

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        biend3571623
        Participant
        December 17, 2020

        Thanks for this. It worked on me.

          maxj22585809
          maxj22585809
          Participating Frequently
          August 12, 2018

          A preview of aftereffects results in a very slow save process if the physical memory of the window is insufficient.

          So before you save it, you can use ctrl + alt + / to clear the preview cache and it will be saved quickly.

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          hctitoto
          Participant
          August 13, 2018

          nope, that never seemed to help at all. I clear cache every couple minutes while working and every time right before saving but never helped. Although the latest AE CC2018 version 15.1.2 (Build 69) seems to be much better at it. The previous one from the April update was the one having more trouble for me. I have not seen this issue anymore on this version.

          P.S. I have 32GB of RAM and was monitoring it constantly specially when saving to try to figure it out and the RAM was never maxed out while saving. Only maxes out when making the previews but like I said, I always cleared it before saving.

          Overall I'm pretty happy with this latest AE CC2018 15.1.2 (build 69) I wonder if this update also fixed it for RogsCra​ ???

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          Byron CortezCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          February 27, 2018

          Hi rogscra, try this:

          Selecting in Project Panel the Composition that you are working, go to menu File / Dependencies / Collect Files...

          Then, select All if you are working with one composition and you haven't got more compositions, but, if you have a lot of compositions in Project Panel and you know that your are not using it, select For Selected Comps in Collect Source Files menu. Now you click in Collect... button, choose an folder in your HDD or SSD and save.

          Now, close After Effects and open the AE project that was created in Collect Folder that you create it.

          I hope this helps you.

          Regards!

          Byron.
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            RogsCraAuthor
            Known Participant
            February 27, 2018

            Update: Ive nailed the error down to the amount of files I have in my project. It appears to go extremely slow when I have a lot of files, for this project around 1000. I still don't know why it crashes, and how to allow myself to work with those files because i need them . Please help!

            Roland Kahlenberg
            Roland Kahlenberg
            Legend
            February 28, 2018

            You should send in a Bug Report.

            AE's Help menu gets you there, like this: Help > Send Feedback.

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