AE CS5 render slow.

I have tested running AE CS5 10.0.1 on Mac OS 10.6.4. Very time i render something i takes longer than on a AE CS5 10.0.0 on Mac OS 10.6.3.
Rendering the same stuff took me nearly 2 hours more on the version that does not have the latest update.
My current preferences is set
Installed RAM 8GB
RAM reserved for other 2GB
Multiprocessing enable
Installed CPUs (processor cores) 8
CPU reserved for others 2
RAM allocation 1GB
Pls advise

CPU usage depends on the effects you are using, the bandwidth of your system, and several other factors. When you have a machine with a bunch of fast cores and a bunch of memory the bottle neck that slows things down may become the read write speed of your hard drives.
You can try different memory and processor allocaions in the preferences file. Here are some resources for the optimum settings.

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Render fast, then render slow

Perplexing.
I'm a fairly long time Motion user. I have a simple (3 layer) animation, A globe turning, a copy of the globe turning (with Gaussian blur and color correction to make the haze around the earth) and a star background. All are renders from Lightwave.
There's no keyframing of any kind going on in Motion, just put the 3 layers together, a little transparency here and there, bloom filter on the stars.
Then I export the movie, H.264, 1920 x 1080 (which is the original size of the files). The first 240 or so frames render at about 1 second per frame. Yahoo. Then at around frame 240, the render slows to a crawl. Remaining time goes from 19 seconds, to 2 minutes to 5 minutes!
Nothing happens in my timeline at this spot. In fact, the place were rendering slows down seems to vary from render to render. I even rendered out the back to layers (glowy blurry earth and starfield) to make a single frame backdrop, and turned this into a 2 layer comp, with the second layer a rendered still... problem persists.
Anyone out there seen this or know of possible solution?

Perhaps your computer is insufficient? Have you tried to render out a less compressed codec and then compress it after in Compressor?
Andy

"Adobe After Effects CS5 Render Issues"!

Hey guys
I currently just downloaded the free trial of "Adobe After Effects CS5" and I am wanting to render some video which I added some colour correction to.
When I put this in the render queue and press render is says "You mus have at lease on render item queued in order to render". Also it says on status "Needs output"
How come this is happening, do I need to buy the full vision.
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You haven't specified the output location or name. After Effects is telling you to do that.
Follow the instructions here.
I strongly recommend beginning here if you're new to After Effects:
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/01/getting-started-with-after-eff.html

InDesign CS5 suddenly slower...

In Design CS5 has been running intermittently very slow recently. It will run normally for a while; then in the middle of a simple operation like copying a small piece of text, everything stalls and I get the pinwheel of death for an undetermined amount of time. Never long enought for me to bother force quitting, but happens frequently enough that it's really hindeirng my ability to get work done.
Have done some heavy work on old, imported files from CS3 and CS4 files lately. Also have recently installed trial versions of Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Production Premium CS5.5, but "completely" uninstalled those using the correct utilites and re-installed CS5 Design Premium afterwards. There have been some Apple Snow Leopard updates recently too. The kind of behavior I see on my activity monitor makes me think it's looking for something on a network somewhere. Either it takes a while and succeeds or it gives up and eventually moves on to the next thing. No other software being effected noticealbly except Illustrator CS5, but I use it less, so hard to name symptoms. All the CS5 apps used to run lickety split fast on this machine and just cleaned out a bunch of fonts. Things were better for a while, but now slower than before.
I've looked all over and noone else seems to be having this problem. Thoughts anyone?
Here's a random sample from the activity monitor:
Sampling process 496 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling CS5ServiceManager (pid 496) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
    2467 Thread_8368   DispatchQueue_1: com.apple.main-thread (serial)
      2467 start
        2467 main
          2467 adobe_csi::ServiceManager::Run()
            2467 vcfoundation::system::IVCRunLoop::RunGUILoop()
              2467 -[NSApplication run]
                2467 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
                  2467 _DPSNextEvent
                    2467 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode
                      2467 ReceiveNextEventCommon
                        2467 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode
                          2467 CFRunLoopRunInMode
                            2467 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
                              2467 __CFRunLoopRun
                                2467 mach_msg
                                  2467 mach_msg_trap
    2467 Thread_8370   DispatchQueue_2: com.apple.libdispatch-manager (serial)
      2467 start_wqthread
        2467 _pthread_wqthread
          2467 _dispatch_worker_thread2
            2467 _dispatch_queue_invoke
              2467 _dispatch_mgr_invoke
                2466 kevent
                1 _dispatch_run_timers
                  1 _dispatch_wakeup
                    1 _dispatch_queue_push_list_slow
                      1 _dispatch_wakeup
                        1 _dispatch_queue_push_list_slow
                          1 _dispatch_wakeup
                            1 _dispatch_queue_wakeup_global
                              1 pthread_workqueue_additem_np
                                1 pick_nextworkqueue_droplock
                                  1 __workq_kernreturn
    2467 Thread_8373
      2467 thread_start
        2467 _pthread_start
          2467 vcfoundation::thread::Thread::ThreadProc(void*)
            2467 vcfoundation::thread::AbstractThread::Run()
              2467 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Server::Run()
                2467 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Server::Accept()
                  2467 vcfoundation::io::BSDPipeServer::Accept()
                    2467 vcfoundation::net::Bsd::Accept(int, sockaddr*, int*)
                      2467 accept$UNIX2003
    2467 Thread_8377
      2467 thread_start
        2467 _pthread_start
          2467 vcfoundation::thread::Thread::ThreadProc(void*)
            2467 vcfoundation::thread::AbstractThread::Run()
              2467 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Worker::Run()
                2467 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Worker::HandleRequest()
                  2467 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::ExecuteRequest(vcfoundation::ncomm::INCHost::IRequest*)
                    2467 adobe_csi::AbstractRequest::Execute()
                      2467 adobe_csi::WaitForGlobalCSXSEventRequest::DoExecute()
                        2467 adobe_csi::CSXSEventQueueManager::PollEvents(vcfoundation::data::IVCString*, int)
                          2467 vcfoundation::thread::VCSynchronized::WaitFor(double)
                            2467 vcfoundation::thread::Monitor_os::WaitFor(double)
                              2467 vcfoundation::posix::PThread::cond_timedwait_relative(_opaque_pthread_cond_t*, _opaque_pthread_mutex_t*, timespec const*)
                                2467 pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np
                                  2467 _pthread_cond_wait
                                    2467 semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap
    2467 Thread_8383
      2467 thread_start
        2467 _pthread_start
          2467 vcfoundation::thread::Thread::ThreadProc(void*)
            2467 vcfoundation::thread::AbstractThread::Run()
              2467 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Worker::Run()
                2467 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Worker::HandleRequest()
                  2467 vcfoundation::io::Serializer::Deserialize()
                    2467 vcfoundation::io::Serializer::InternalDeserialize()
                      2467 vcfoundation::io::Serializer::Read()
                        2467 vcfoundation::io::IVCChannel::ReadFully(void*, unsigned long)
                          2467 vcfoundation::io::BufferedReader::Read(void*, unsigned long)
                            2467 vcfoundation::io::BufferedReader::InternalRead(char*, long)
                              2467 vcfoundation::io::BufferedReader::Fill()
                                2467 vcfoundation::io::BSDNamedPipe::Read(void*, unsigned long)
                                  2467 vcfoundation::net::Bsd::Recv(int, void*, int, int)
                                    2467 recv$UNIX2003
                                      2467 recvfrom$UNIX2003
    854 Thread_14185
      854 start_wqthread
        854 _pthread_wqthread
          854 __workq_kernreturn
Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
        accept$UNIX2003        2467
        mach_msg_trap        2467
        recvfrom$UNIX2003        2467
        semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap        2467
        kevent        2466
        __workq_kernreturn        855
Sample analysis of process 496 written to file /dev/stdout

Here's a sample from when it happens:
Sampling process 496 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling CS5ServiceManager (pid 496) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
    2676 Thread_8368   DispatchQueue_1: com.apple.main-thread (serial)
      2676 start
        2676 main
          2676 adobe_csi::ServiceManager::Run()
            2676 vcfoundation::system::IVCRunLoop::RunGUILoop()
              2676 -[NSApplication run]
                2676 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
                  2676 _DPSNextEvent
                    2676 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode
                      2676 ReceiveNextEventCommon
                        2676 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode
                          2676 CFRunLoopRunInMode
                            2676 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
                              2676 __CFRunLoopRun
                                2676 mach_msg
                                  2676 mach_msg_trap
    2676 Thread_8370   DispatchQueue_2: com.apple.libdispatch-manager (serial)
      2676 start_wqthread
        2676 _pthread_wqthread
          2676 _dispatch_worker_thread2
            2676 _dispatch_queue_invoke
              2676 _dispatch_mgr_invoke
                2676 kevent
    2676 Thread_8373
      2676 thread_start
        2676 _pthread_start
          2676 vcfoundation::thread::Thread::ThreadProc(void*)
            2676 vcfoundation::thread::AbstractThread::Run()
              2676 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Server::Run()
                2676 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Server::Accept()
                  2676 vcfoundation::io::BSDPipeServer::Accept()
                    2676 vcfoundation::net::Bsd::Accept(int, sockaddr*, int*)
                      2676 accept$UNIX2003
    2676 Thread_8377
      2676 thread_start
        2676 _pthread_start
          2676 vcfoundation::thread::Thread::ThreadProc(void*)
            2676 vcfoundation::thread::AbstractThread::Run()
              2676 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Worker::Run()
                2676 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Worker::HandleRequest()
                  2676 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::ExecuteRequest(vcfoundation::ncomm::INCHost::IRequest*)
                    2676 adobe_csi::AbstractRequest::Execute()
                      2676 adobe_csi::WaitForGlobalCSXSEventRequest::DoExecute()
                        2676 adobe_csi::CSXSEventQueueManager::PollEvents(vcfoundation::data::IVCString*, int)
                          2676 vcfoundation::thread::VCSynchronized::WaitFor(double)
                            2676 vcfoundation::thread::Monitor_os::WaitFor(double)
                              2676 vcfoundation::posix::PThread::cond_timedwait_relative(_opaque_pthread_cond_t*, _opaque_pthread_mutex_t*, timespec const*)
                                2676 pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np
                                  2676 _pthread_cond_wait
                                    2676 semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap
    2676 Thread_8383
      2676 thread_start
        2676 _pthread_start
          2676 vcfoundation::thread::Thread::ThreadProc(void*)
            2676 vcfoundation::thread::AbstractThread::Run()
              2676 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Worker::Run()
                2676 vcfoundation::ncomm::NCHost::Worker::HandleRequest()
                  2676 vcfoundation::io::Serializer::Deserialize()
                    2676 vcfoundation::io::Serializer::InternalDeserialize()
                      2676 vcfoundation::io::Serializer::Read()
                        2676 vcfoundation::io::IVCChannel::ReadFully(void*, unsigned long)
                          2676 vcfoundation::io::BufferedReader::Read(void*, unsigned long)
                            2676 vcfoundation::io::BufferedReader::InternalRead(char*, long)
                              2676 vcfoundation::io::BufferedReader::Fill()
                                2676 vcfoundation::io::BSDNamedPipe::Read(void*, unsigned long)
                                  2676 vcfoundation::net::Bsd::Recv(int, void*, int, int)
                                    2676 recv$UNIX2003
                                      2676 recvfrom$UNIX2003
Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
        accept$UNIX2003        2676
        kevent        2676
        mach_msg_trap        2676
        recvfrom$UNIX2003        2676
        semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap        2676
Sample analysis of process 496 written to file /dev/stdout

InDesign CS5 lag slow on Snow Leopard 10.6

I am reaching the end of patience with this one and starting to wish i'd not paid for a CS5 upgrade.
I installed under Mac OS 10.5 originally, did all updates and had font and other deathly slow issues in Photoshop.
In the end, I enacted a TOTAL system maintenance routine and upgraded to System 10.6 in order to try and get round probs with CS5.
I since have ditched all prefs, reset all caches, cleared all logs, done total font checks and removed a couple of corrupt ones, repaired disk permissions etc etc etc.... Photoshop 'appears' to work ok, although saving and saving to web can be sluggish (pizza wheel waiting for it....)
InDesign CS5 is now taxing my productivity. I thought it was my Wacom Intuous 3 tablet, but find the issue (at the mo as I've not noticed anything significant yet in Illustrator or Photoshop) only occurs with InDesign CS5.
The issue is the glitchy interface - stepped or delayed movements of objects across the page, selecting menu dialogue boxes can take a second when i click on a value, slightly steppy movements make selecting the tiny up and down arrows on some menus very tricky to be accurate. PLUS saving and saving PDFs in particular as well as PLACE images CMD-D can be deathly slow. It used to be almost instaneous, slowed only by the hard drive firing up. Now i try to do things and have to wait on many actions. It's doing my head in! This is NOT PRODUCTIVE.
In InDesign i have tried turning off Live Redraw, dropping display quality to fast (makes working almost impossible as i need to see what i'm doing), and disabled the Preflight option that is on by default, and i'm sure other options too i've seen on forums. But no better.
I have a Quad Core 3Ghz Intel Mac with 14Gb RAM, and an NIVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT graphics card.
IS this APPLE or ADOBE issue? How on earth can i get my speedy productivity back so i can move around the screen smoothly, save and place quickly, and select menu dialogues without waiting for it to react..... HELP!

markmld wrote:
thanks for the heads-up Peter. Id not have thought to deactivate Adobe stuff first.
I've ordered a new WD Caviar Black (larger cache than i have on current drive) so a slight upgrade of drive, and as you say, a preserved backup. I dont have any spare bays in my Mac as i've filled them with other drives used for backups and other stuff, so i may need to buy an external case for the SATA i'm taking out. No matter, it will be sorted this weekend.
thanks all for help. fingers crossed this rather drastic step works!
Glad I thought of it. However, if you're keeping the drive, and don't have other installations, you can keep the backup drive installations active if you'll have a use for them if you boot from that drive. With your slow performance issues, you'll probably not want to use InDesign on that drive, but perhaps you'd want to use some other rarely-used apps from that drive. Yes, space, the final frontier.
OWC has USB drive adapters that work with many types of drives, including SATA, for about $30. They're open gizmos - no enclosure, no power supply, no fan, etc. They also have notebook-sized (2.5") drives up to 1TB with USB portable enclosures under $200, less for smaller.
Consider an extra empty drive for use with Time Machine, as an ongoing automatic backup. It's very comforting. An alternative or supplement is yet another drive that you use with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, inexpensive shareware, that make complete and/or incremental backups, on demand or on schedule. I use Time Machine to back up a Time Capsule drive - wired or wirelessly - and CarbonCopy Cloner to back up to a portable USB drive that's Velcro'd onto the top case of my MacBook Pro.
Oh, and for suspenders to go with my two belts, or maybe that's a belt to go with my two suspenders, I also use Carbonite online backup - wirelessly or wired, about $5/month for unlimited storage. Their gotcha is that data is kept while it's on your drive, and then they delete it from your storage 30 days after you delete it from your drive. I had tried other online storage - Mozy, and some others, but at that time, about a year ago, they didn't work reliably. Probably better now. Not sure if they keep data after you delete it from your drive, or for how long after you delete it. I think also that some online storers define "unlimited" differently.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

Photoshop CS5 very slow performance, MacBook Pro i7

Hi, I've noticed some posts on slow screen redraw, but my issue seems to be with specific performance with web based files having many layers and layer groups.
A sample file is a 27mb psd. It has lot of layers (525), mostly type layers (limited to 3-4 typefaces in the file) and layer groups. If I select a particularly large layer group and try to move it on the canvas, I get the Adobe throbber cursor icon for at least 20 seconds. Even small layer groups bring up the throbber cursor for a few seconds. Overall, things seem much slower than CS4. Not good! And I'm just speaking of basic operations, not hitting intensive tools or major filters yet.
I've looked at the site below, but not much information except the option to purchase some scripts to 'warm-up' Photoshop. After what I spent on Design Premium, I don't think I should have to purchase third party scripts to warm it up. (I did experiment with the tiles option under performance pref's, but upping that made opening files take 2 minutes, where before opening was achieved in 10-15 seconds.
http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#OptimizingPhotoshopCS5
I have a brand new MacBook Pro i7, 8GB, 7200 internal drive. I installed everything from a fresh install of Snow Leopard. CS4 has never been installed on this Mac.
Any thoughts?

if you have 4GB RAM, the system would need about 1-2GB,
so if you quit all other apps and only run PS, it has 2-3GB RAM left.
you can set RAM-usage in percentage, in the settings menu of photoshop,
i set it to 70%, the rest is for osx.
so lets say PS uses 2GB RAM in your case, the more hires images you open at once and the more layers they have,
and the bigger they are, the 2GB RAM are gone and PS will use the scratch disc for the mentioned images you opened at once, which is also configured in the settings menu. usage of a scratch disc (PS writes data to the scratch disc permanently) will slow down overall performance, it may lagg and everything is slower than before (in my experience). best for scratch disc usage is a separate, fast, internal disc, as huge as possible (50-250GB discsize and empty, no files on it, so that PS can write continously, in order to avoid disc-fragmentation, which would slow down the writing process additionally)
thats the reason i would add 8GB RAM.
RAM is very important for photoshop CS5.
(also processor clock speed and number of cores - in the moment 2 cores are enough
as CS5 isnt optimized yet for more than 4 or 6 cores. more to come soon, i hope...
in my case, i added 24GB RAM, cause i want to avoid usage of a scratch disc at all. this is a huge gain of performance for myself.
i never liked my old scratch disc, as working was terrible slow with it. i also had only 4GB RAM in my last mac, and working was no fun
i work on large format files, 50-100cm at 300dpi and lots of layers, each layer has to be seen like an image itself, so each layer rises RAM consumption.
its a pitty that i never saw adobe delivering some kind of performance guide for photoshop, how to improve performance for professional users, like posting that guide on their main photoshop site, i had to digg for these informations for a long period of time and found it in the end at diglloyd´s comprehensive site. i wonder why adobe makes a secret about photoshop performance, a lot of my friends at work mentioned formerly, that they have had huge lag issues and dont know where to begin solving these problems, which are solvable for sure.... (new hardware, proper settings and so on)
you can read detailed instructions, on how to speed up things in PS here: (where i took it for myself)
http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html
subtopic:
http://macperformanceguide.com/OptimizingPhotoshopCS5-Intro.html
enjoy your new macbookpro!
peter

Photoshop CS5 Very Slow Liquify

I've noticed that in Photoshop CS5, Liquify just works terribly slowly. When I click and drag to distort an image, the image gets distorted sometimes even 10 seconds after I've lifted my hand. Sometimes I have to wait 30-40 seconds for the distortions to happen before I can regain control of Photoshop.
Also, panning is a bit more choppy than in CS4, which annoys me a lot, as it was the case with CS4 compared to CS3, etc... I predict that panning in CS7 will look like a slideshow.
And another thing, when you Flick-Pan, and release the mouse, the canvas flies across the screen, and during that flying animation, in CS4, you could still zoom in and out with the keyboard. In CS5, you have to wait until the canvas has slowed down to a stop to be able to zoom. This is also a strange feature.
Adobe said CS5 will have performance improvements, and I can see filters, adjustments and brushes perform a tiny bit better, but basic things like panning, zooming and liquify got MUCH worse and less responsive, and this is not worth the tradeoff for me, since I use these features very frequently, many times a second.
I use a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet most of the time, and I noticed that Liquify is much faster (although still too slow for me to use it) when I use my trackpad instead of the pen.
I'm using the Photoshop CS5 trial now, and I have Photoshop CS3 and CS4 both installed on the same computer, so I can tell that CS3 ran much faster, CS4 was a bit slower and CS5 is a LOT slower. I'm using a late 2008 15 inch Unibody MacBook Pro with 9600M / 9400M graphics, 4GB RAM and 2.53 GHz CPU, and speed gets a bit better when using the 9600M.
Here are my questions:
Has anyone else had any of these problems, especially Liquify?
Has anyone else used CS5 and noticed that Liquify runs just fine?
Does anyone have any suggestions of what I could try to cure any of these problems?
Is it possible that this is the way Photoshop CS5 should run on my computer, due to my hardware limitations and bloated software?

How long is it going to take to fix this liquify problem?? Come one guys I need it to work now and better than in CS4 not worse!!! Otherwise why did I spend almost 1K to upgrade???
Looking into the problem isn't enough!!! I need a solution since I use the liquify tool for almost 99.9% of my images (fashion/beauty photography retouching).
Is there a temporary fix??? using the CS4 liquify plugin into the CS5 software?????
do a google search on slow liquify and see what comes up..... still pretty nice and insecure requests for the reason why it is so slow because users think it is their machine (computer) but if I don't get an answer and fi very soon (couple of days at the most) this nice and insecurity will vanish for a HUGE ADOBE *** kicking campaign !!! Since photoshop is known for their arrogantly slow updates for their software and waits till the next big update to correct things....I am not going to wait 18 months for you guys to fix the liquify problem!!!
SO GET TO IT NOW!!!!! So I can do my work and make enough money to keep spending on adobe upgrades!
And as a side note...didn't you "wizzards" have enough time to discover this BIG problem beforehand?? Or were you to busy fighting with Apple about your huge Flash problem??

PS CS5 incredibly slow

I'm running CS5 on an iMac 27" (Intel Core i5 2.66 GHz, 8GB RAM, 7200RPM drive) and it is incredibly slow, especially when bringing in objects from Illustrator (smart objects) and resizing them. I'm working on a docuement that is only 50MB in size and it's crawling. I end up having to rasterize the object just so I can scale it which kind of defeats the purpose.
One thing I noticed is that PS isn't utilizing all the cores. For that matter, neither is Illustrator. I don't have any issues with CS4 so I'm wondering what's up with CS5 or if it's some kind of compatibility thing with 10.6.4 and CS5. Whatever it is, it's annoying.
Anthony

Ok, then the remaining problems we know about are related to OS bugs with fonts.
The OS can sometimes corrupt it's font cache, and give bad info for fonts, which causes a number of slowdown issues (and crashes).
Validating fonts in FontBook is the first step.
Then flushing the OS font cache (see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/843/cpsid_84363.html ).

Export to EPS on Macbook Pro i7, CS4 and CS5, ULTRA SLOW

Just curious if anyone has run into extremely sluggish behavior when running either CS4 or CS5 on a brand new i7 Macbook Pro.
I have a brand new, 2.66 i7 Macbook Pro with 4 gigs of RAM and CS4 installed. I had a 100 percent vector Illustrator file that was only 1.5 MB in size. I added a clipping mask and then "saved as" an EPS. I then received a progress bar that stated "Writing Illustrator EPS Format". It's been 20 minutes and the bar hasn't even reached a 1/4 completion. I then tried this same task on a different Macbook Pro i7, also brand new, also 2.66 i7, but with CS5 and 8 gigs of RAM. It wasn't any faster. Both machines are sitting with the bar barely moving. I estimate this task would take 2-3 hours to export which is totally unacceptable.
This problem is not unique to this file. Every time I have tried to save as an Illustrator EPS file, the machine becomes so slow it is essentially unusable.
How can the same thing be wrong on two brand new machines, with two different versions of Illustrator?
Does anyone know what is wrong?

Illustrator cannot export to EPS. You can only save your file as EPS. The difference is not insignificant. To export a file one is generally leaving the current file open and creating a new file that is somehow less than the complete file. Illustrator files exported to TIFF, PSD, or JPEG are less than the full Illustrator file because they are no longer vectors and are far less editable than the full Illustrator file.
An Illustrator EPS file is the data in your file saved in three formats: A fully editable Illustrator file, a PostScript file giving output instructions to a printer, and a low resolution preview for viewing when imported into other programs. While the Illustrator file may be only 1.5 MB, the instructions to produce the PostScript code for the printer might be complex due to blends, gradients or gradient meshes, pattern swatches, symbols, placed raster art, or effects. If the file is physically large, then the lo-resolution preview can get massive as well. A 6 foot by 10 foot banner will need a preview that’s 44 MB, and that’s not even required for printing. It is qute possible for an Illustrator file that physically large to be only 1.5 MB.
EPS is a dying format. There is probably no reason for you to be saving your file as EPS. If you only need to use it in Illustrator then save as .AI with PDF compatibility turned off (this option appears after you slick Save). If you need to use the Illustrator file in another program, the save as .AI with PDF compatibility turned on.
Can you tell us why you are saving as EPS?

Encore CS5 very slow when selecting the File tab

Good morning.
This is the first I have ever experienced this. Encore CS5 is extremely slow when I try to select the file Tab. All other tabs like Edit are fine. It is also takes forever to Save anytime. I usually just use Encore for short no menu DVD's I'm building a DVD with a few sideshows and an hour of video. I haven't started the menu yet. I updated the latest from Adobe yesterday and I am current with the Window 7 64 bit updates. All other applications in the Master Suite work fine. I think my system should be enough to run Encore without any problems. Any suggestions? I'm all ears!...
CASE: Cooler Master HAF 932
MB: Gigabyte GA EX 58 UD5
VIDEO: Nvidia FX 4800
CPU: i7-860 2.8 Ghz 8mb Cache
COOLER: Zalman CNPS9700LED
RAM: G Skill F3-8500CL7S Rip Jaw 24 GB
HD: (3) Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 7200/64MB/Sata
HD: (2) Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 7200/64MB/Sata built as RAID0
HD: (1) Raptor 500GB for Operating System
SOUND: Creative X-fi SB 1040EF
OS: Windows 7 Home premium 64 Bit
Thanks,
Art

Do you have Windows hard drive Indexing ON or OFF?
Some Win7 notes...
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/789809?tstart=0
More Tips http://windowssecrets.com/comp/110127
Utilities http://windowssecrets.com/comp/110106 (Soluto for startup)
Win7 Help http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/w7itpro/
Win7 Configuration Article http://windowssecrets.com:80/comp/100218
Win7 Monitor http://windowssecrets.com:80/comp/100304
Win7 Optimizing http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/servicecfg.htm
Win7 Virtual XP http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/
More on Virtual XP http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5607&tag=col1;post-5607
Win7 Adobe Notes http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/508/cpsid_50853.html#tech
Win7 Adobe Update Server Problem http://forums.adobe.com/thread/586346?tstart=0
An Adobe Win7 FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/thread/511916?tstart=0
More Win7 Tips/FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/thread/513640?tstart=0
Processes http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Compatibility http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/Default.aspx
Win7 God Mode http://forums.adobe.com/thread/595255?tstart=0
CS5 Install Error http://forums.adobe.com/thread/629281?tstart=0
CS5 Help Problem http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/842/cpsid_84215.html
Win7 and Firewire http://forums.adobe.com/thread/521842?tstart=0
http://lifehacker.com/5634978/top-10-things-to-do-with-a-new-windows-7-system
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/05/29/7-free-windows-7-tweaking-utilities/
Win7 64bit Crashing and "a" fix http://forums.adobe.com/thread/580435?tstart=0
http://prodesigntools.com/if-any-problems-downloading-or-installing-cs5.html
Harm's Tools http://forums.adobe.com/thread/504907
Also http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/
Also http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

After Effects CS5 render question

Can someone explain this please. I have a movie (30 sec in length). I rendered it into another movie. It took 1:48 to render (short render). I rerendered it again. It only took 1 min (same exact settings). I closed the project and opened a new porject. I did the same thing again except the first render I chaanged it to only render the first 3 seconds. The second render still only took 1 min (and it was the whole thing). It seems like the first render will always be slow but every render after that will be faster. Is that correct?

Not necessarily.
Some factors that might make a render after the first one go faster:
- cached frames
- background processes that took a while to start up the first time are already running
- OS has already shifted memory and CPU resources to After Effects if multiple applications are running

CS5 incredibly slow to open/save files

I've been using CS5 for a while now, but only recently has it started showing this issue.
Basically, Photoshop is taking about five seconds only to show the save/open file dialogs, no matter what resolution/kind of file/etc.
This is critical to me, since I use the save dialog so frequently this basically slows my productivity by 50%.
I've allowed Photoshop to take up to 1GB ram, but I don't think that's the problem, since I've ran it with the Task Manager open and it's not showing considerable RAM/CPU uses when I ask PS to open/save.
I believe this might be related to recent patches on the software, I'm thinking of reinstalling it on a previous version.

Likewise a network share that's not currently online (e.g., a mapped drive or a desktop shortcut pointing to a server not presently there) can cause major Windows stalls.
-Noel

FW CS5 very slow

Hello!
After installing FS CS5 I created a Website 1,2 MB! When I try to open this site I have to wait more then 20 seconds!
When I put in links I try to do other things, I have to wait about 20 seconds.
I work with an iMac 2,66 GHZ, 4 MB 1067 MHZ!
Please excuse my "English"!
I hope, you can help me!
Thanks a lot!
Juergen

What do you mean, you "created a Website" in Fireworks?
Fireworks is a design and graphics program and it isn't the best tool for creating HTML pages and sites. Did you export your design from Fireworks as images? That would make a page that is very large and slow to load.
Try following the steps on this tutorial:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt1.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt2.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt3.html

Illustrator CS5, very slow download.... i am new to this, thanks!

Hi,
i'm trying to dowload illustrator CS5 on my laptop but it's very slow, like 12 hours...! i want to leave it all night ... but for the moment i meet some error message at first just after beginning the download.
could anyone help me please? thanks a lot!

ok i downloaded the assistant again and now the download works; but it's 11 hours of download?? why?
apparently it's 120 KB/s....

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My version of Flash CS5 has recently become very slow to start up, taking well over a minute sometimes.
It appears to stall for the longest time during a loading process called "...Loading Accelerators" (yes, very ironic).
Anyone have any idea what may be causing this behaviour?
Mac Pro running Mac OSX 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard) and 14Gb RAM.

Yes I am using Sophos!
Do Sophos have a feature/bug request page? This is one feature I can do without!
Thanks for your help.

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