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I don'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 am really enjoying the Affinity Suite of Products as professional design products and alternatives to Adobe products. Are there any plans for an After Effects alternative in the next couple of years? This is the app I miss the most from Creative Cloud.

The Affinity Team has no plans to make an after effects alternative. They are strictly focusing Photo, Designer and Publisher. They may also be working an adobe Bridge alternative, but don't quote me on it. As for after effects alternatives, I know at least one open source alternative, called "Natron"

There is no After Effects alternatives, full stop. Natron is ambitious, but it's more similar to Nuke, and also is not actively developed (or at least it needed a maintainer for quite some time so it's on the way to abandonware).

I've done several hours of search for some hypothetical non-adobe video alternative, and it simply doesn't exist somehow. If you want to do motion graphics or video effects, AE is legitimately the only way to do that.

You cannot expect us to keep posting about things we are not doing, but the 2016 post still currently holds true. It's surprising that so many people think that they will be able to replace all the Adobe products, not only in one go, but from only one alternative provider, who's starting from scratch.

Apologies if what I said was in any way taken as a jab at you all. I don't expect you to update status, I was just remarking that it was from 2016 since many things can change in 3 years - though I don't expect an update. My reply is more aspirational than anything else; again - I am not saying I expect you or your company to provide me with software I specifically want to buy. If that was your business model I don't think it'd last very long.

I have no clue how your company is structured nor where efforts are being focused - it's possible for all I know that Serif has a million employees all working on new creative applications with a release date near in the future. It's also possible that you have a small team and are choosing to support the products you already have released. Or it's even possible it's just one very, very tired programmer in a 100sqft apartment. I wouldn't know.

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