After effects CC on maverick slow render because of PP CC Dynamic Link Footage

I put premiere pro CC edits in After Effects CC through dynamic Link every day. Since I upgraded my systems to Maverick and first installed the 12.0.1 and afterwards 12.1 the rendering of the After effects projects that have Dynamic Link Edits on the timeline slow down from 10 hours (in12.0 on Mountain Lion) to about 90 hours. When I replace the dynamic Link with a QT Movie, it renders about 10 hours again. It is normal that Dynamic link slows dow the rendering, but this is extreme and since this wasn't the case on Mountain Lion and 12.0 for the same project with the same dynamic link, not normal. I couldn't figure out what causes this. Is this Maverick on my 2008 Mac Pro ? is this a bug in 12.1 or dynamic link ? Or can I solve this with a simple setting somewhere in Maverick or AE ?

I'm was having the same issues, turned off "app nap" for premiere and after effects which has mostly fixed things.
The only thing now though is if I have a dynamic linked after effects composition within premiere and I have the after effects project open (that the composition came from) the dynamic linked comp within premiere won't play properly no matter what.
Tried everything I can find on the net - app nap, full screen full res rendering within after effects - that composition just won't play and take ages to render if the after effects project that it came from is open.
If I close the after effects project, the dynamically linked composition in premiere starts playing perfectly. Open the project in after effects and that dynamically linked comps stop playing. Any other dynamically linked comps from other AE sessions play fine within premiere (unless I open their original AE project!)
This used to work fine before - it was great to be able to have AE and premiere open together and make changes in AE then switch to premiere to see the changes update, watch the sequence to get context, then flick back to AE, make more changes etc.
Now I have to close the AE project, go to premiere, watch the sequence, open the AE project, make changes. When doing a few hundred adjustments over a week this can add considerable time to workflow!
Any ideas? Is this happening for you guys?

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After Effects CC (OSX MAVERICKS) Slow Over Network

Greetings
We just upgraded everyone at our small TV studio to CC.
We are opening an old AE CS6 project in CC, so it converts the project to CC and we resave it.
We are having a HUGE issue where the entire AE program becomes laggy to any user input. (click a layer, it takes 3-4 seconds to be selected. Type characters, 3-4 seconds to update, Click a menu, it takes 3-4 seconds to open, etc etc) Any user input takes a very long time to actually work in the program, so it is unusable.
Here is what I figured out so far:
-I still have CS6 installed on the mac and when I open the project in CS6 it works beautifully.
-When I open the project in CC but do not connect to the network (and therefore have missing footage), everything also works perfect as far as user interaction.
-Once I relink my footage, AE CC becomes laggy and unusable.
So it seems by that evidence that something has changed from CS6 to CC, and for whatever reason CC is slow to look over the network for the footage and each user interaction causes the large wait in program response. Moving footage locally to the computer fixes the problem, but we cannot work that way as we have TB's of footage on the network that is shared.
We have not encountered anything like this in Premiere CC, or Audition, seems limited to AECC.
AE has the latest CC updates downloaded/applied.
Thanks!!!

I am not an expert in networking, we just have the most basic of networks, our dept has 6 Mac pros , with one designated for network rendering / storing common footage. We just connect through finder to the render Mac so nothing third party going on.
It's something different with cc vs. Cs6 and it has happened on all of our machines. Back in cs6 still works smoothly.
My thought was maybe cc checks all footage differently on every action and since we are pulling so much from the network it was slow. The main comp has maybe 40 layers, with other precomps in it.
Last resort is to format and reinstall osx and all our software but it's a guess and one that would involve a weekend of unpaid work on my part ugh.

After Effects CC Output Modules on Render Only Machines

Hi there, I'm having an issue with custom Output Module Templates and my renderfarm:
After Effects CC 12.0.0.404 (showing as up to date in Creative Cloud)
Mac OS X 10.8.4 (Latest Mountain Lion version)
Mac Pro 2.93 GHz 8-Core, Radeon 5870, 32GB RAM and with Blackmagic Decklink Extreme 3D+
Remote Machines (there are four) are Mac Pros as well (Quad-core, running 10.7.2 with 16GB RAM), using the ae_render_only_node.txt file in their user Documents folder.
The exact error:
aerender ERROR: No output module template was found with the given name.
I am trying to get a renderfarm working with After Effects CC (see exact version above). Unfortunately, I need custom output modules and I can't seem to get the render slaves to recognize them. I found older threads on this exact issue, but no solution was found.
I am using commandline aerender in OS X terminal to start a render with a basic test scene.
To simplify things, I have tried testing this on one render slave machine at a time... Same result everywhere.
Here's what I've tried:
I exported a .aom file from my main machine (where I have my desired custom Output Modules) and attempted to bring it in on the render slaves. However, because the render slaves are render only, (they have ae_render_only_node.txt in their Documents folder), the ability to import Output Modules is disabled in After Effects (it opens as the After Effects Render Engine, and the Edit>Templates menu is greyed out).
Next, I thought I'd try copying the main machine's /Users/(user)/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/12.0 folder over to the render slaves, thinking that would get whatever preference file to them that's needed to define the output modules. No luck. Launched After Effects (which loads as After Effects Render Engine) and reset my disk cache preferences (so they weren't still the main machine's). Tried aerender again... no luck. Same error:
aerender ERROR: No output module template was found with the given name.
After that, I thought it would be a good idea to sign out of Adobe Creative Cloud on the main machine, and try logging into the render slave machine with my full UserID and Password and temporarily remove the ae_render_only_node.txt file. Then, I'd import the .aom file in the full version of AE... I tried this and success! The renders work... they find the Output Modules no problem. Only issue is, as soon as I sign out, and switch to using the ae_render_only_node.txt file, the Output Modules are not found. Not sure what's going on-- if the Output Modules are being disabled by the ae_render_only_node.txt file? Or maybe signing out of my Adobe ID is removing the preferences that determine Output Modules? Don't know where the Output Module preferences are stored to be able to tell.
Next attempt: I thought I'd try syncing my preferences with Creative Cloud. I made sure to check After Effects Sync Preferences to ensure that Output Modules are set to sync. I did a sync where I uploaded my preferences from the main machine. Then, on the render slaves, I ran Sync Preferences, and chose to download preferences. Works when signed in, but not when used as a render only node. When it's a render only node, it still prompts me to Download the Sync Preferences and Quit the Application, which I do, but nothing seems to happen. I try aerender again, and still the same error:
aerender ERROR: No output module template was found with the given name.
I can't seem to find any info on where Output Modules are actually stored (apparently they're not anywhere in the User/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/ folder?). Are render only nodes not allowed to have custom Output Modules? Not even for something as simple as the Multi-Machine Sequence with a post-render action of Set Proxy enabled?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank You.

I've verified this problem and filed a bug. Sorry about the hiccup.
I've trying to pin down why this happens, and while I don't have a full explanation yet I think I've stumbled onto a workaround:
Trash the prefs on the render machine.
Enable the ae_render_only_node.txt file.
Launch AE and then quit. <- This is a critical step. More on this later.
Disable ae_render_only_node.txt file.
Launch AE.
Add your Output Module template.
Quit AE.
Enable the ae_render_only_node.txt file.
After you do this, I highly recommend making a backup copy of the Adobe After Effects 12.0 Prefs-indep-output.txt file. Just in case. I've had the failure reappear.
Now test with aerender and let me know if that works. It has on my machine.
Why does this matter? When you run AE with the ae_render_only_node.txt file enabled, it appears to add a new section to the preferences: "Output Module Preference Section v28-TRIAL". It's the TRIAL part that is important. Without it, AE doesn't seem to be able to keep track of the OM's when in render_only_node mode. And if you disable the ae_render_only_node.txt file, AE has a tendency to destroy the TRIAL section (I'm still tracing why that happens).
Now, should this not work for you, I recommend you work around the problem by adding your comps to the render queue in each project. When you do that, and change your aerender flags appropriately, you can render to your desired settings without specifying OMtemplate parameter.
> I can't seem to find any info on where Output Modules are actually stored (apparently they're not anywhere in the User/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/ folder?).
You probably already discovered this. In After Effects CC the OM data is stored in the Adobe After Effects 12.0 Prefs-indep-output.txt file. In older versions of AE, a single pref file such as Adobe After Effects 11.0-x64 Prefs.txt holds all of this data.
Let me know if that workaround does the trick for you. If I get more information on the cause of the problem I'll update you.

"Adobe After Effects CS6" can't be opened because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed."

I downloaded After Effects CS6 trial. when I press on it , it says “Adobe After Effects CS6” can’t be opened because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed." what should i do ?

Mac Unidentified Developer Issue
Here's how to open apps that apple should not be blocking:
http://www.imore.com/how-open-apps-unidentified-developer-os-x-mountain-lion

After Effects CS6 running painfully slow

I am working on a composition in Adobe After Effects CS6, and it's running painfully slow. I've tried to mess with some of the settings in the preferences, and lowering the quality of the preview. But I still feel like I'm running terribly slow considering the speed of my computer. Here's what I'm running:
Mac Pro Desktop
Model Name:          Mac Pro
Model Identifier:          MacPro5,1
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors:          2
Total Number Of Cores:          8
L2 Cache (per core):          256 KB
L3 Cache (per processor):          12 MB
Memory:          24 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed:          5.86 GT/s
Video Card
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
Slot:          Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width:          x16
VRAM (Total):          1536 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x05fe
Revision ID:          0x00a1
ROM Revision:          3426
Displays:
SyncMaster:
Resolution:          1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number:          H9LPA06272
Main Display:          Yes
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Rotation:          Supported
SyncMaster:
Resolution:          1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number:          H9LPA06265
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Rotation:          Supported
Hard Drive
WDC WD1001FALS-41Y6A0:
Capacity:          1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
Model:          WDC WD1001FALS-41Y6A0
Revision:          05.03D06
Serial Number:               WD-WCATR2482149
Native Command Queuing:          Yes
Queue Depth:          32
Removable Media:          No
Detachable Drive:          No
BSD Name:          disk0
Rotational Rate:          7200
Medium Type:          Rotational
Bay Name:          Bay 1
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Verified
Volumes:
Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk0s1
MAC OS X:
Capacity:          677.53 GB (677,531,090,944 bytes)
Available:          421.16 GB (421,160,968,192 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk0s2
Mount Point:          /
Untitled:
Capacity:          322.33 GB (322,328,068,096 bytes)
Available:          183.98 GB (183,976,169,472 bytes)
Writable:          No
File System:          NTFS
BSD Name:          disk0s3
Mount Point:          /Volumes/Untitled
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Hey PJ,
I've been using CS6 since it was released, and while it's got a bunch of great new features, it's basically made Multi Processing unusable unless we're talking about the simplest of comps.   I'm working on my second short using AE as the total animation package, and render times for complicated 3D comps (NOT using ray tracing) have tripled.   MP used to take forever to spool up, but was fast once it got rolling. Now, disabling MP gives me 3 or 4 times faster rendering, which is still MUCH slower than MP is CS5.5. SOmething has deflineitly changed for the worse, as i'm using the same machine with the same settings and virtually the same comps.
I acutally just yesterday had two animators quit on my because they couldn't meet their deadlines.
I think After Effects is the hydra of programs. They kill one feature and two more fill its place. Unfortuanly we traded functional Multi-processing for falloff lighting and etc... The puppet tool was it 3 version of after effects before it was stable. I'm hoping we don't have to wait til CS7 for MP to sort itself out.
I really don't understand the "deal with it" aspect of the posters here. Surely a functional program that delivers on it's promises is the goal of this forum. We're not asking it to make us a sandwich.

Problems with lighting in After Effects CC using Mavericks

I recently upgraded to Mavericks this week and installed the Adobe patch so that AE CC will work properly. I am having issues in a comp where I have an ambient light placed in the comp with no keyframes throughout the comp. As I scrub through the timeline, the light suddenly shuts off at a specific point in the timeline. When I render the comp into a .mov file, the light is definately shut down at that point with no keyframe.
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Can anyone confirm that they have had a similar issue or is there a known fix yet! Thanks to all of the engineers at Adobe for your amazing assistance!
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Compudigital Industries
Rocklin, CA

There MUST be a simple answer to this problem....
There is a simple answer indeed.
Here it is:
The highlighted button in the Comp panel enables Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) Correction.
So, instead of stretching the footage horizontally, you create a Composition with the same frame aspect and Pixel Aspect Ratio as your source footage (just drag the clip to the New Comp button in the project panel and AE will automate this) and then enable PAR correction and After Effects will give you a corrected (deanamorphized) preview so you won't see it squeezed at all on a computer monitor. When you export it, it will look squeezed until you take it to the target video application. Any professional video application will handle this correctly.Millions of people do this every day, since non-square pixels are still dominant among the most popular video formats.
Even Photoshop has had support for non-square pixels (and PAR correction in the document panel) since CS (ie. Photoshop 8.0).
Note that when you turn on PAR correction (just like when you use odd magnification levels) AE switches to a draft filtering mode, which makes type and other elements look a bit jagged. Don't worry, it's just a preview.
The ideal solution, and the one video professionals rely on, is adding video output hardware to your computer, so you can connect a professional video monitor. After Effects can provide a live preview using such a set-up.
For more information on PAR, see Pixel aspect ratio and frame aspect ratio in After Effects Help.

Adobe After Effects & Illustrator are incredibly slow on a fast computer :S

In serious need of a computer genius. I have a computer that should have a great performance although till now it's acting frustratingy slow with the Adobe Programs. I have the legal Adobe Creative Cloud. I mainly use Illustrator and After Effects and that is where I noticed the problems.
Illustrator: slows down over time. Over a period of half an hour the program gets extremely slow and laggy (happens with every project).
After Effects: Is really slow with rendering. Also RAM render goes extremely slow even with very very simple projects. (even a shape layer that only moves from the left to the right is RAM rendering frame per frame and takes half a second to render every frame -_-).
It's not workable. I have tried all kinds of forums and have all the settings of After Effects optimized.
My windows device Manager and System Information sais that everything is working ok. The RAM is detected by the System and also After Effects detects the RAM.
I don't know what the f*** is wrong.. Getting a bit mad here. Who can help me out?
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OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
System Model MS-7751
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Display adapters NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Disk Drivers Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series ATA Device
WDC WD20EURS-63S48Y0 ATA Device
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SMBIOS Version 2.7
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Available Physical Memory 13.6 GB
Total Virtual Memory 32.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 29.7 GB
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Hi 421321312,
Please refer the following help article from the illustrator point.
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/optimize-performance-illustrator-cs4-cs5.html
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Sumit Singh

After effects takes too long to render, broadcasting time is soon, so I'm in a lot of trouble!!! :(

Hello!
I started to render a pretty easy animation 13 days ago.
The animation is 4.30 minutes long, and there's no 3d involved. Only illustrations from Illustrator and some textures.
After these 13 days of rendering, and finishing 4 minutes, it felt like crashing. So it did.
This animation is for Belgian television (broadcasting time is soon), along with 20 more, so I am in deep deep trouble.
I use my mac pro, from a seagate hard drive.
> codec apple prores hq (this is what the company wants)
Could really use help to solve this problem!!
Thanks a lot
Ellen

Hi!
I agree, something is very wrong with your scene or setup. I would recommend the following actions:
1. Make a RAM preview in After Effects, in full resolution. If you have layers with frame blending or motion blur, make sure to enable the frame blending and motion blur boxes in the top of the timeline so that it shows up in the preview. Also, check the Preview settings window and make sure that no frames are skipped and that it renders in full resolution.
If the RAM preview is rendered as slowly as your final render, then the problem is inside of after effects or with your source files. If the RAM preview is a lot faster than the rendering, the problem is likely in the codec or Adobe Media Encoder (if you render through AMC that is).
2A: IF your RAM preview is extremely slow, try hiding the layers one by one and making more RAM previews to locate problematic source files.
2B: If the RAM preview worked fine, try to render into a different, lossless format – like an uncompressed quicktime or avi file or a quicktime animation with max quality – directly from after effects (In the top menu: Composition/Add to render queue, where you'll likely find some lossless preset). Make sure you have A LOT of free hard drive space before rendering. If this rendering works fine you are left with a lossless file that can be compressed to the apple prores hq-format in any compatible software. For example, you can try opening the file in Premiere and render the Prores from there. With a google search you will probably find lots of ways to render Apple Prores files.
You could also check the resolution of both your main composition and your pre-comps. Avoid using unnecessarily high resolutions, it will only slow things down.
Restarting your computer to clear RAM memory and close eventual bugging processes could also be a good idea.
Good luck!
/Simon

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I appreciate your attempt for a workaround solution, however as you well know you can't render to a video file from multiple machines. we must output directly to individual frames, I setup 8 machines to work on this project, if we did not use compression then we would be writing over 300MB/sec of data which would not be good for our fibre network which unfortunatly is only 4Gbit. And it would be about 10TB of data total.
As for your workaround Im not sure we could gain speed with your method either way. spending the extra time to encode to a lossless format and then process again in AME sounds like it would take even more time, unless AME could create PNG files at some sort of ridiculous speed maxxing out every core at 100% or something to compress the PNG's. Out of curiosity I will throw some frames at AME and see how long it takes to compress and how much cpu it will use.
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After Effects: Taking 9 hours to render and finalize a 4 minute song with audio spectrum?

Hello, I am using Adobe After Effects to create some Youtube videos for my music. I have a 4 minute song I've created, and have added 6 layers of audio spectrum, as well as glows, and a few other minor effects. I'm newer to the program, but I still do not understand how the estimated time to render 6,125 frames is 9 HOURS?
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Don't use compressed audio -- change ac3's, aac's or mp3's to wav or aiff.
Turn off the multiprocessing--it probably isn't helping one bit, and you may have it set up wrong, too.
Render to a quicktime movie in Animation, Photo JPEG or PNG codecs. Compress later
Just before bedtime, hit the Render button, have a nice night's sleep, and see how things are doing in the morning.
Compress to mp4 using Adobe Media Encoder.
And FYI: things that you call "minor effects" may in reality be quite processor-intensive, meaning AE has to work harder, meaning it'll take a good deal of rendering time.
AE isn't a video editor. It's an effects, motion graphics and compositing application. It doesn't work like a video editor. You can't expect it to react or perform like a video editor.

After Effects CS5.5 does not render any type of file, corrupted message.

Hey guys,
About 2 days ago I was working on my file as usual (with no changes whatsoever to my software or hardware) and After Effects suddenly refuses to render my video and does not even go past one single frame, it will not render movies, image sequences, anything, it does not render period.
when I click on stop it gives me this message:
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The project I am working on is a rotoscoping animation, I have used the Rotobrush on some MOV files, along with Particular Trapcode, and some effects such as Glow and Blur, nothing fancy.
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After Effects CS5.5
Mac OSX 10.7.4
Memory 16GB 1333 MHz DDr3
3.1 Ghz Intel Core i5
MOVIE FILES INFO:
50fps
1280x720
h.264
Linear PCM
16-bit little-endian signed integer, 4800HZ (stereo LR)
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Is there anything else you need to know? my deadline was yesterday and this is for a live show next week, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Also audio's not a big deal as I'm not using it, here are some screenshots of my project settings.

At first the problem came back but then I disabled the 'media cache' option in Preferences as advised above, seems to work for now.
I keep having to turn this option on and off if I want it to render, there must be some way around this.

Problems with After Effects CC & OSX Mavericks AFTER installing 12.01 Patch

Ok, let me give the details. Everything working perfectly previously. Update to OSX Mavericks this morning, (had read about the issues), predictably After Effects wouldn't open. I then applied the 12.01 patch as directed by Adobe. I now get this error message, and After Effects won't open. It attempts to, gets to this same spot, then crashes.
I want to re-iterate that my whole rig was working fine until this so it is definitely related to this update. I have already tried reinstalling patch, resttarting computer, and updating Cuda driver. I have too many plugins, pressets, and scripts to just willy nilly reinstall After Effects as a "let's see if that works". I am on my work computer and need After Effects to work.
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OSX 10.9 (now, updated this morning)
2x2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
64 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2048 MB
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB graphics

I disabled my firewall, but still got this error Not sure what it means at all, also not sure how to configure the firewall to not block dynamiclink. I am using Handsoff on Mac and All adobe connection requests and all dynamiclink requests are allowed so I don't know what else to know, although it seems to not be the whole problem. Might not even be the real problem as now I have this new error

I can't launch After Effects CS6 on Maverick 10.9.4. I tried uninstalling, re-installing and updating it

After Effects 11 will not launch on Maverick 10.9.4
I try to run the Update patch and it errors out as well:
I've tried uninstalling After Effects and re-installing it with no success.

Lilanthony what error are you receiving when installing the update? You can find details on how to locate and interpret your installation log files at Troubleshoot with install logs | CS5, CS5.5, CS6 - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/troubleshoot-install-logs-cs5-cs5.html.

After Effects CS4 ram preview slow start-up (8 core)

Hi,
I have an Intel 8core PC and I'm working with After Effects CS4 on Windows Vista 64 bit.
When I press on ram preview the CPU usage has a slow startup till 100%.. Is this common or? Cause it takes a while till it really uses the CPU of 100%.. so it has a delay..
Thanks!

I have a similar system. 2 AMD Opeteron 2.3gb quad processors, 8 gb of RAM, Quadro FX5600 video card. I had called Adobe support about how slow my new system was compared to the old system that had a dual core Intel with CS3 and Win XP Pro. Here is the problem:
On the new 64 bit architecture, After Effects CS4 is still a 32 bit program but takes advantage of renders with the 64 bit OS by running After Effects on each core. If you only have 8gb of Ram with 8 cores( like I do), After Effects is loading on to each core. This leaves 1 GB per core to run the OS and After Effects. He told me what I need to do is (1) eliminate half the cores or (2) load the system up with 32 Gb of Ram. I'm currently order more Ram memory but have disabled all but 2 cores in msconfig advanced tab. It working much better at this point. Still slow but not dragging. I've order another 16 Gb of ram and will replace the other old 8 gb of ram with another 16gb at a later date.

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Since upgrading from AE CS3 to CS6, I noticed that the interface is much slower in CS6 than in CS3.
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When I move my mouse within that delay period, unexpected results happen, eg accidently a layer is moved up or down.
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Very frustrating because at first I didn't even notice a layer was moved. When going back to CS3 it's a relief to work with.
Note that I'm not talking about render times of the preview, I know when to wait.
But I expect the interface to respond within reasonable times. Clicking a layer should actually highlight it within less than a second, not multiple seconds.

Hi Dave and Mylenium, here's more info:
I updated AE to 11.0.2.11 (that fixed the "Need 2 frames or more for ram playback" but not the UI response time)
I work on an iMac with OSX 10.6.8, 3Ghz Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram, and an OCZ Vertex 3 SSD
In the current case, I work in a comp with about 40 shape layers, 2 tiff sequence layers (stored on the SSD), and a few PSD files. Resolution 1080p
I turned off multiprocessing, enabled disk cache
Time to throw it out?
Is the 2012 iMac line up to the task (Nvidia Geforce GTX 660M / 675MX, Intel Quadcore i5 2.7-3.2Ghz - not fantastic right)?
Switch to PC to get real power?

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