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JyotDiliip
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February 18, 2025
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Rendering in After Effects is taking ages!

  • February 18, 2025
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Rendering Issue in After Effects (2024 & 2025) – Extremely Slow Performance

I have been using After Effects 2024 for a long time, and rendering a 1-minute video used to be much faster. Recently, I updated to After Effects 2025 (v25), and ever since then, rendering has become extremely slow—taking around an hour for a 1-minute video.

Steps Taken:

  • I rolled back to After Effects 2024 (v24), but the issue persists.
  • The project is not complex—it contains only basic color corrections and looks adjustments, with no 3D effects or heavy transitions.

System Specifications:

  • Model: Predator Helios 300
  • Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
  • RAM: 16GB
  • System Type: 64-bit
  • Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060

Issue Summary:

  • Before updating to After Effects 2025, rendering was much faster.
  • After updating, the rendering time increased drastically.
  • Rolling back to v24 did not solve the problem.
  • My project is lightweight, so it shouldn't take this long.

Would appreciate any help in troubleshooting this issue!

    5 replies

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    Yael32827509zzpz
    Participant
    April 3, 2025

    im currently dealing with this too, i thought itd be fixed with the latest update but no

     

      Warren Heaton
      Community Expert
      Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 20, 2025

      @JyotDiliip 


      While working in After Effects, what render time are you seeing for each Layer in the Composition Profiler? 

      ToolfarmJP
      Community Expert
      ToolfarmJPCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 20, 2025

      Have you used the lastest version of the graphic card driver?

       

      EyeCreate2024
      EyeCreate2024
      Participant
      February 19, 2025

      I am having the same issue. What would take a few seconds is now taking 30+ minutes for a 15 second video. Nothing has changed other than updates on AfterEffects and Media Encoder recently. My process has remained the same (clearing cache, etc.). I'm running on a W11 PC.

      EyeCreate2024
      EyeCreate2024
      Participant
      February 20, 2025

      I thought I'd make an update to my post. I installed previous versions of both After Effects and Media Encoder with the same issue still present. As of right now, it has taken an hour and a half so far, with another hour and half to go according to media encoder FOR 15 SECONDS OF VIDEO. I have a video that I will be working on for a client tomorrow that will be anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour. I'm scared to find out how long that one is going to take to render. This is unacceptable.

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      KellyMB
      Inspiring
      May 21, 2025

      If you pre-render your comp before exporting it will be a lot faster. If you have an external SSD used for your cache and previews with enough allocated space, that can also speed up your render times. Also make sure that you have the hardware acceleration ticked on and enable preview from disk cache settings ticked on as well.


      And @JHillPhD Already on top of that. I've tried all of that. I PROMISE you. I spent all day yesterday watching different YouTube videos and trying every method people have suggested. I have a Samsung T9 2TB SSD and it's pretty empty other than the Adobe caches and other files that it collects. I've tried it both ways...caches on the SSD and caches on the internal hard drive in the folder next to the project file.  Same exact issue. 

      nishu_kush
      Community Manager
      nishu_kushCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      February 18, 2025

      Thanks for reaching out, Dilip.

      Have you tested with a different project and media? Do you get the same results? Are there any third-party plug-ins installed? Do you get the same results when exporting using After Effects render queue?

      Let us know, we're here to help.


      Thanks,
      Nishu

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