Idon't know if everyone is having this problem, but After Effects is absolutely impossible to work. I'm working using simple shapes, a gradient layer and a text layer. And After Effects is just slow with something so simple like that. Inside the program, the mouse movement gets really laggy, it takes forever to render. And I'm not using external files, I'm not using adjustment layers and I'm not using any Motion Blur.
I'm feeling After Effects is getting worse and worse on each version Adobe release. And there's no way the problem is my computer, since I'm using a Mac Studio with M1 Max, 64Gb RAM and 4T storage. I can't find a resonable explanation for all this lag on every project.
Propagation and rendering is unbearably slow and freezes and crashes regularly. Tried to use Beta versions too. Looking for alternative solutions instead of Roto Brush within Adobe tools and outside UGH
@Bruno T. Augusto if you look at the idle rate, you're actually at 85% idle. AE using 113.2% just means it is using more than 1 core of your system. The next 3 tasks in that image are what concern me. They have used hours and hours of CPU time with nothing else coming close. The WindowsServer one in particular is used for rendering the OS in general.
I'm using this computer for less than a year and AE started to lag a lot since the last update on the 23 version. And the 24 version got much worse. Besides theses problems I reported, it continues to show an "out of memory" warning. Even in really really simple compositions. Like...an animated text with no background. I never had this king of problem before, even when I was still using my old iMac. But now, AE keeps crashing, showing warnings that just disappear and lagging a lot.
Same problem... I just updated to the new version and it is really very slow compared to the previous one, used a few hours before, always in a Win11 environment, and always in the same conditions (no other changes on the system).
@jenkmeisterIt's not just MacOS. I work on Windows 10, Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core, 64GB RAM, Geforce RTX 3080. Adobe installed on NAND SSD, projects files are on 2nd NAND SSD.
I literally just came to Adobe forum to write the same comment as @Bruno T. Augusto .
After Effects is extremely slow like never before. As I see it at the moment, there's no rule when it happens. Can be selecting keyframes, can be switching from precomps to precomps, a project can be simple with just a solid with text and AE will still freeze for a second or few (to process simple operations??).
I use the same workstation and SDD with Photoshop or Lightroom and there's no such issue.
EDIT / UPDATE:
This is very weird but the issue didn't occur as much yesterday. No updates, no changes in plugins or system. It's quite baffling. I'll try to find out the reason for it.
The bottom line, Ae is slower than it used to be.
I'm sorry but you really are! There are so so many things that people have been asking for for at least a decade - including bug fixes and features - and you just don't do them! You just add features that nobody wanted and never really work (content aware fill) and keep piling the problems up. Maybe stop releasing a new version every year and release one that actually works? I'm more likely to keep paying Adobe that way
Hey Everyone,
Today I contacted adobe billing with my gripes about After Effects performance vs subscription costs. I basically told tem how long I have been using the software and that I am very dissatisfied with the performance of recent years, how much additional time things are taking, etc - and was given a recent promotional discount.
Basically halving my subscription.
I suggest you all do the same.
If enough of us do this, well, perhaps speaking with our wallets is a better idea than trying to flog a dead horse here in the forums.
A few minutes before, i finished a Motion Graphic animation and was a pain all the lag and constant slow playback, it's too fustrating having a good setup (ryzen 9, m.2 ssd, 3090 ultra, 64 ram) and AE don't work properly.
Recently, i was moving a Solid with a text... and suddendly all the interface started to lag and slowed down everything! I don't understand... my old macbook pro from 2012 with AE work so much better than this new s**ty version. I hope some company does an Ae application to compete with adobe, because i have seen this problem in the forum for a long time and adobe just won't do nothing. I really feel scammed with all the money i'm putting on their wallet.
Please, listen to the community, repair and put some efford to solve this trashy program.
PS: Searching for an alternative, i found "Project Avalanche" wich is based in Unreal Engine... so... it's just a matter of time to transfer this laggy workflow to a another much better one.
1) are you on a multi monitor setup? There have been reports of monitors that are using different refresh rates causing some lag in UI responsiveness. You could try disconnecting one monitor to see.
I've been using AE for 30 years. Performance/stability issues have been pretty bad since the subscription service started.
The way I cope is to use older versions. I'm now using AE 2020. I would recommend sticking with that for now. I had been using AE 2017 for the last few years. The new features are never worth the crashes in newer versions. I get new capabilities from plugins and they are backward compatible.
I'm disappointd to say I'm slightly relieved that it's not just me who's experiencing these same issues.
I just bought this new Macbook pro laptop about 4/5 months ago, after effects was running fine at first, then things started to slow down. I did a little research and a lot of the same thing popped up, reccomending I delete my unused cache files to free space and declutter the software.
I did this, and if anything, it got worse...
Unfortunetely I work as a freelance vido editor and I primarily spend a lot of my time animating custom infographics for high paying clients.
It has been incredibly frustrating as of late, things are taking twice as long as they should, i run into a thousand problems a day with the software, just last night I was exporting a 15 second animation that would of taken (at most) 10 minutes, but it took me 35 minutes to export... (albiet I was rendering and exporting in 4k, but i still don't believe a fresh high quality laptop should take 35 minutes to export a 15 second animation...)
My business has slowed, I fear I might lose some of my clients, as I've had to push back a lot of my due dates because of how long things are taking to render.
Today i'm working on a 1080p clip and it's also taking twice as long to export and render... this is impossible
I just bought a new computer and an rtx 2070 graphics card to run adobe after effects. Everything was working fine with the adobe after effects 2019 for months. I just updated to adobe after effects 2020 and I got a compatibility error?? I dont understand any of this. I was brought to a download page with an Intel installer or something. I go to open the driver install file and it says "Your computer does not meet the minimum requirements to install" What does this mean!!!!!!
It looks like you should disable the Intel GPU that is attached to your motherboard. Check with you system's manual or Website to see how you should go about with this. Alternatively, contact customer/tech support to listen to what they have to say on this.
I seem to be editing in adobe after effects with no problems after I say "continue with issues." Maybe there is no problem directly with this error messsage. I will continue to edit in the new after effects for a while to see if I encounter any problems. Maybe this is some sort of error with the new 2020 after effects.
I've tried this with my Dell Inspiron laptop with Intel 520 integrated graphics as well as a Radeon R5 335M discrete card, and I end up not being able to render anything. I've got media encoder, AE, and all of its related programs set to use the Radeon via the Radeon settings, and it still says that the Intel driver is unsupported. I even updated the driver to the one recommended on Adobe's website, and that didn't change anything. Weird... I think I've got the same issues as OP. I hope there ends up being an update to help avoid issues with this in the future.
The page's directions discuss what to do with messages like these. Honestly, Intel, Microsoft and the various PC manufacturers have made it VERY difficult to keep your Intel drivers up to date. PC manufacturers have ultimate control over which version of a driver is installed when you buy a PC. The sad part is, most do not bother keeping their drivers up to date after a year, if that.
Ultimately, in order to control the version of the driver you have installed on your machine you have to do three things:
1. Turn off automatic driver updating in Windows (but this means you might miss important things like security fixes)
2. Uninstall and delete the Intel drivers that came with your PC
3. Install a generic driver from Intel
You can find out more about how to manually replace your driver from Intel, here: -drivers.html
Also, please let us know how you feel we can clarify this in our instructional page referenced by the System Compatibility Report. We really do value all feedback, as having updated drivers is really important to the stability of our applications.
Thank you,
Brian Williams
Architect - Premiere Pro
I'm having the same issue as OP. The trouble in most cases is that as old as some of these onboard display adapters are, (in this case mine is a Intel HD Graphics 4600 with the latest manual drivers installed from the Intel site (20.19.15.5063 - 29/10/2018), we're still given the same error. The destination AE gives us to 'Fix' the driver is for much newer versions of the hardware which will never be compatible regardless of a manual install.
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