Loupe Slow-down nailed to specific effects

Hello, all.
I recently purchased Aperture 1.1, and overall I am pretty satisfied. Having just recently begun to use RAW files due to the long-standing void of viable "workflow" tools for it, I have really been intrigued by Aperture as MY iphoto for the stuff I like to do (amateur photography, etc).
Overall satisfied, however, is not "ecstatic." I have noticed a problem whereby the loupe begins to behave very badly. I noticed that it would only surface on SOME photos, not all. Being the annal retentive type I am, I decided to try and figure out why. And I think I have (at least on my setup), and would like to see if anyone can concur.... maybe this can get fixed? I sure hope so!
Like I said, only SOME of the photos exhibited this massive slowdown with the loupe tool and zoom feature. I toyed around with the effects to see what was causing it. The X factor: Highlights and Shadows. If you DO NOT use this feature or turn it off on your problem photo, the loupe speeds up significantly, to the point of being useful. Try and see! Am I alone on this one, or can someone else duplicate it?
I don't notice a slowdown for any other effects thus far, just the highlights and shadows feature. levels, exposure, white balance, they all can be set and forgotten about, but h&s seems to make the loupe and zoom features bog WAAAYYYY down.
Here's hoping to a fix -- though I'm not on "recommended" hardware, if it weren't for this little "bug," I'd be ecstatic about aperture, and the speed of it would more than suffice.

and you're on an intel machine?!
Well, there goes the "PPC hardware" theory.... I was thinking that perhaps it would go away with a two-core processor and multiple threads.... oh well, I guess i get to stick it out with my G4 a lil' longer. I hear Core 2 Duo is around the corner! lol.
So, Highlights & Shadows, as well as Noise Reduction both cause the loupe and zoom features to BOG WAAAAAAYYY down. On any machine. Man, I was hoping it was hardware, but it's looking like software...
the bright side is that if it's software-related, it can be fixed, even on my machine.
Anyone else? if we can locate specific instances, perhaps they can use this forum to track down the 'bug' or 'faulty code' that is causing this behavior.

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System gradually slowing down?

I hope I'm not picking up a topic which has been discussed a gazillion times, but I couldn't find my specific questions after doing some searches. There's a few things I won't to clear about Mac OS.
I have a MBP 2009 with 4GB mem and 500GB HD. It still runs smoothly however it defenitly runs slower than in the beginning. I guess that's a bit normal (more programs, files, mails, junk,...).
I've been a PC user most of my life and switched about a year ago. i'm happy. I always found it necessary to do a reinstall of the OS on a pc every 1-2 years (even though I try to keep my stuff very clean). I'm curious how this effects on Mac OS?
If I would do a reinstall, let's say from a Time Machine Backup (so with all my files, programs, mails, settings etc.), would the system run exactly the same or are there some core OS operations that will run 'smoother' after a re-install (with a TM backup). (I guess for a PC that would be a clean registry and not having 'unknown' processes/programs loading at the back).
Also, is having installed a lot of applications (even when they are not running) slowing down the system. I guess it shouldn't as long as there's enough disk space.
And then finally, do disks slow down after a while. Is having a 10% full HD (much) faster then 60% full (mine is around 60%). also disk defrag is no longer 'necessary' in the latest versions of Mac OS but I just can't imagine that after +1y heavy usage some files are "spread out".. (I'm no expert on file systems so I could expect an answer as: "no, EXT FS doesn't have fragmentation"
Anyways, these are a few doubts I still have around a Mac OS system slowing down:
-reinstall OS (this one particularly since i'm thinking of upgrading to new laptop, and wonder if I should start from scratch and copy manually or use my Time Machine backup to reinstall)
-having many apps (not running)
-disk fragmentations, or just hardware slowing down
cheers!
Philippe

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The verify/repair disk step is a bit different: all utilities use the same method of detecting file system errors but (for example) Disk Warrior rebuilds file system directories from scratch (including perfectly useable ones), which often can repair damage Disk Utility can't, & has a side benefit of simplifying directory structures. Once, back when HD's were much slower & less sophisticated than they are now, this could make a large difference in file system performance. Now, it is debatable that an otherwise OK directory structure would show a noticeable improvement.
IOW, if your HD's file system is healthy or only has minor problems, Disk Warrior won't do much of anything of real value that Disk Utility can't, but it can be a lifesaver if Disk Utility can't repair certain kinds of problems it can detect.
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If or when you remove add-ons or applications, be sure to check the documentation for the proper way to do that. If you don't, you may leave behind files that impact performance.

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Hello there!
First of all, I'm a new person to After Effects. I bet I just doing something wrong, but anyway I would like to ask an advice how to fix my issue because googling such subject won't solve it.
The point is following:
I rendering 120-minutes long video for YouTube. It almost static with no effects, just with a few simple fade-in/out transitions on couple of layers. You can find an example of such video on YouTube by this link: Daniel Lesden - Rave Podcast 056: guest mix NitroDrop (Israel) - YouTube (for some reason, specifically this video was rendered successfully previously).
Process is going very well at first, 1 minute of playback rendering for about 30 seconds, so first hour of the video rendering for 30 minutes.
The problem starts at about 70% of overall progress: it start to slowing down, and then goes to 1 frame rendering for 1 second. As you can imagine, it's a pain for such long videos, it will take a days to finish last 20-30%.
Composition and render settings are following:
Size: 1280 x 720 px
FPS: 30
Format: Quicktime
Codec: ProRes 422. I've also tried: Animation, Photo JPEG, another ProRes and even H.264, but outcome was the same.
Output module settings screenshot:
Multi-processing settings:
On this point I have to say that I've tried many different options with amount of CPU, RAM or with Multi-processing option turned off completely, but in the end it all was the same.
After Effects version: CC 2014 (still on trial version, but it shouldn't be a problem since Adobe don't have any limitations for trial versions as far as I know).
Computer and OS information:
Any advices please? I'll very appreciate every possible solutions.

"open AE preferences>General then move to the bottom tab and set AE to purge every 10 frames or so"
— I've set this parameter to 10 as suggested, and here are the last render queue results:
First 60-minutes video rendered superb good for 1 hour 17 minutes.
Second 120-minutes video goes really badly: it took 8 hours to render about quarter due to error. Here is what I found in the error log: "There is an error in background rendering so switching to foreground rendering after 246 frames completed out of total 216000 frames. (26 :: 142)".
Later I've tried to render second video again, and it was great almost till finish: 1 hour 45 minutes has been rendered for less than an hour. But then it suddenly slowed down (as described in the original post), so I had to stop it. I installed Memory Dig and "optimized" memory before rendering and once during process, but it didn't help. In the end I just rendered last 15 minutes of the video (with no issues) and just merged it into 120-minutes long file using Video Joiner. Pretty sad method, although.
On a third attempt everything was fine until rendering stops by a new error in popup window: "After Effects error: internal verification failure, sorry! {could not find itemframe we just now checked in}".
So the original problem still wasn't solved yet unfortunately.

Speeding up / Slowing down beginning movements of still images

I want to "exponentialize" moves when I use still images. I want to create non-linear speed up and slow downs at the beginning or end of my movement. Does FCE do this? Where? I know Adobe Premiere used to do it?
Any Suggestions?
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In FCP you can ease scale, rotation and most other keyframable values.
You used the term expontential in your first question. This specifically refers to scaling animation that makes the speed of the motion appear to be continuous. This is a feature in After Effects, but is not available in any Final Cut Studio product.
All the best,
Tom

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I recently bought a 2014 Mac Pro for the specific purpose of rendering large volumes of After Effects Compositions.
I am rendering approximately 40,000 After Effects Compositions - the reason being that I am using an After Effects Script to create personalised videos from a CSV file.
I've segmented the list into batches of around 1,000 at a time and each film is 1m25s long. I am also using the Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (OpenCL). The videos are added from After Effects into AME.
The Problem
When I start the render, it churns them out at about 3 minutes per video. If I leave it for more than around 9 hours, the render time dramatically slows down. After leaving it for more than 24 hours (a weekend) I've seen render times of around an hour per composition.
Question
Is there a way to stop the queue from slowing down?

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Hi,
i have a certain tv-promo-project where i have to render several comps which all include the same amount of text and just a hand full of additional graphic elements, e.g. a lensflare and a glowing line which separats the text blocks.
The text of the specific promo-comps are read out of a "main text comp" by expressions. The expression is as follows:
txt = comp("Master Textkomposition").layer("Textebene").text.sourceText;
txt.split("\r")[0]
The rendertimes of the project are constantly slowing down as the render queue and the process goes on. The first comp takes about 8 Minutes to render (it is only 10 sec long) and the second already 20 min, where the third comp reaches like 2 hours of render time.
I also recognized that even the preview in the timeline is really slow, although the used effects are usually not that performance heavy.
My System specs:
After Effects CS6 11.0.4.2
Mac Pro 5,1
Processor       2 x 2,93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
RAM                24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphic         NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048 MB
Software         OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
Drive c:           500 GB SSD (Apps & Disk Cache)
Drive d:           2 TB HDD (Project & Source Media)
Drive e:           1 TB HDD (Render & Media Cache)
Does anybody have a clue what this problem could be about?
Any help is appreciated
Cheers
paul

Thanks for the advice aka danke für den Tipp!
I'll give it a try!
Paul

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