One of the biggest causes of stutter and lag when using After Effects is having a lot of compositions and layers. This combined with the use of effects and 3D camera work can seriously slow down your compositions and render times. Is 16GB of RAM enough for After Effects? The minimum amount of RAM that After Effects needs to run is 8GB.
One of the next things we wondered was why does after effects run so slow on my computer?
If you run applications other than those with which After Effects shares a memory pool, and you don’t allocate adequate memory to other applications, performance can be greatly reduced when the operating system swaps RAM to the hard disk. Stop or pause resource-intensive operations in other applications, such as video previews in Adobe Bridge.
Why is my screen redraw speed so slow in after effects?
When After Effects displays the Composition, Layer, and Footage panels at magnifications greater than 100%, screen redraw speed decreases. (See Zoom an image for preview .).
Why does after effects take so long to load?
After Effects must use memory and processor resources to update open panels, which may slow the work that you are doing in another panel. Create a region of interest. If you are working on a small part of your composition, limit which portion of the composition is rendered to the screen during previews. See Region of interest (ROI).
Yet another query we ran across in our research was “Does after effects have a lot of delayed response?”.
I’ve updated my entire Adobe CC to the 2019 version only to find After Effects has a lot of delayed response. Even simple stuff like, scrubbing through the timeline with the playhead will have some serious lag to it.