Didn't think I could have made a clearer demo of it being a software issue! It has absolutely nothing to do with hardware, how much clearer could I make it!!! Stop buying into Adobe's BS... It has been said by so many people on this thread, just try other software on the same machine and see how well that performs. I'm sure there are challenges in OS X and on Apple's new hardware, but other developers seem to have the talent and ability to deal with it and produce quality products. And not take nearly two years to not fix it! After Effects as it currently stands is a complete and utter mess. It isn't fit for professional use and no matter how many blinkered fan boys pipe up on here, that fact does not change. If you can't even get import to work, exactly how bad is the development team!!! I have shown in black and white as simple as I thought was possible that import is completely unusable professinally. I could also show how when rendering, your whole machine gets bogged down due to catastrophic memory leaks. Or the poor GUI performance in 3D space.... Or how Cineware is absolutely useless compared to the old c4d import plugin... This is in AE2014, I won't waste time on pointing out the massive issues with 2015, which is clearly only beta software. This would be largely pointless as Adobe just tell you 'that's just your experience, we have plenty of happy users'. Denial upon denial, never accepting evidence even when you present what I think is crystal clear evidence of utterly substandard performance issues. Now this all sounds a little harsh when taken on its own, but let's all stop kidding ourselves. After Effects is not important to Adobe, It's only important to us few fools who have stuck with it like brain washed idiots! Do yourselves a favour and move on, AE is dead for Mac users... Can't speak for PCs... Sad and unwelcome as that news is... It's time to move on and just stop hoping for something that is never going to happen. Just read back through the thread... It's all hopes, wishes and anger! Nothing has really been fixed in over 20 months! Just accept it and move onto another platform. AE is not professional software... AE is dead... Unless they change the management and culture of the whole dev team... Can't see anything changing anytime soon.
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