After Effects Slows PPro Significantly

I'm on a 2011 macbook pro 17" 5 months old, 2.2 quad-core, 8gb ram with a 6tb RAID via eSata
Production Premium CS 5.5
Any time a clip is edited in After Effects, and replaced in PPro, it slows all processes of PPro significantly. Render times take 5x's longer, edits are not immediate, cannot see changes in other clips in immediately, etc...
Is there something that is hindering PPro to operate normally even when I'm past the editing and rendering of the replaced clip?
Thank you for any and all help.
-Charlie-

Don't render to AVCHD footage. Check the Sequence settings in Premiere and make sure you compositions are the same size and frame rate. Then render to something like MotionJpg or even Animation Codec Quicktimes. These codecs require very little processing to re-render in Premiere Pro.
You never want to render to MPEG codecs directly from AE.
AVCHD footage takes a bunch of processor power to decode then re-encode so it's going to take a while to render to the PPro timeline. Sorry, I know of no way around this problem when working with highly compressed footage.
Personally, I always transcode (re-encode) AVCHD footage before I even bring it into Premiere. I do the same with all highly compressed video like video from DSLR's. I'm on a Mac so I mostly use ProRez 422 because it's 10 bit, nearly lossless, takes very little CPU power to decode, and plays back in real time very well. The only time I keep a PPro project in a native compressed format is when I'm doing quick cuts only edits.
Hope this helps.

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i http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/WS641C5190-1DAD-4150-B17F-F339C6DF1FB2.h tml
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Hoooold On, Shooter..... Let me just open the timeline and count from left to right.... 1,2,3,4,5,6.... 459,,,, Ohhhh there it is... Clip number 459 from the left... Have fun Counting clips.
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petershawn wrote:
And I always thought OS X / Apple Hardware was the way to go in the video-business. Obviously I was wrong all along.
The problem is OSX Lion not the specs of the hardware or CS5.x
If you can manage to revert the OS back to Snow Leopard ( which also can run 64bit software ), I bet your issues will be fixed.
And if you want to give Apples own Video-software a shot, then stay away from FinalCut X which has the same "quality" like the Lion..
Sorry, just saw that you have no Lion, I was redirected here from within Lions forum..
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Take this quote :
"by Todd Kopriva on Apr 25, 2010 at 8:08:14 am
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Gregory Seattle wrote:
From what I hear new iMacs are due out soon with the new Thunderbolt (!) and Sandy Bridge processors/chipsets. Should be a LOT faster then what I have now.
For AE work I'd say maybe yes, maybe no. To make AE REALLY speedy, you need a lot of processor cores and a boatload of RAM. iMacs aren't known for either of those things.

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Hallo and sorry for may bad english!
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In the meantime, here's how you should be able to mitigate the problem:
Make sure that your software is installed on the fastest disk that you have, preferably an SSD. If you don't have an SSD, then at least make sure that your software (applications and OS) are not stored on the same drive from which you're reading footage or to which you're writing output files. And certainly don't run applications with high disk access (like WinZip or anti-virus software that intervenes at every disk access, just for a couple of examples) while you are working with After Effects. (BTW, this is all good advice for high performance even without this bug.)
If you make these changes and notice an improvement, let us know. Actually, let us know either way so that we can collect more information.
So, how did this get past us? I think that it's because we tend to test on computers that are set up as I describe above, including tending to use SSDs and having our disk access spread across multiple disks. That said, we do apologize for letting this get out and inconvenience you.

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