Text layers are painfully slow to work with.

[pasiv42547404]

Whenever I try to drag a text layer of type in it, everything happens with a huge delay. 2 secs today. Shouldn't be a problem fixing this in 2019…

Also, rendering simple script-animated text plate with a solid bg color could take up to 20 minutes. I have pretty good Macbook Pro i7.

BUT then, if I construct a cool Sci-Fi space scene in Element 3D (3rd party AE plugin), with several textures and lights and a depth of field camera in it, renderind could take less time! How??! .

[thorn-neverwake]

Thanks for sharing your findings.

On this "It remembers the settings from the last one and this corruption is getting passed on to the new element like some hereditary disease." - that's an interesting observation. I've now run into this problem 2-3 times since the original popped up... I couldn't determine how Faux Bold got turned off, as I never use it. After finding this thread, turned it off and the speed returned.

A month later, working with this same file - BOOM, faux bold is now randomly BACK ON for no reason at all. At least this time around, I immediately knew where the render speed was being killed and was able to quickly correct it.