Sickengly Slow Startup of CS5.5 (and CS5 before that)

[Walter Soyka]

Do you also have Premiere Pro on your machine? What happens if you start that?

Have you tried removing all the plugins from your MediaCore folder?

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[Michele Poggi]

Thanks for the support, I’ve done both of the Tests and these are the results:

I tried a Premiere Pro CS5.5 trial (I use Avid Media Composer for Video Editing) and.. In the startup mediacore even didn’t appear. It began loading and scanning in it’s folders but “Mediacore” never came up. It was not a thunder but anyway it opened away as a Normal heavy program.

Then, I’ve gone to the Common/mediacore folder in the Adobe tree and I’ve deleted the Plugins, I indeed thought that was a great advice! But.. Nothing changed. When I started A.E., the startup window has been blank (fully loaded of course, but with Nothing going on written) and after 2 minutes (!) “Loading Mediacore” appeared, it took another minute, a “better time” indeed, but then scanning folders was actually slow as always.

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[Walter Soyka]

There are additional plugins installed within the application folder itself (Program FilesAdobe After Effects CS5.5Plug-ins). Try removing third-party effects from this location, too.

You can dump them in a folder on your Desktop instead of deleting them entirely.

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[Mato Kokotic]

Try to kill Quicktime32 processes from Task Manager when program gets to “Media Core” phase.

[Michele Poggi]

I’ve tried both of the tips I had.. Having some differences since before. Moving all the Plugs from the folder make Mediacore indeed faster, but losing all of my important tools, while killing the Quicktime process helps but really a little.

What does NOT change is the extreme amount of time that A.E. takes even BEFORE initializing the engine and mediacore. *mumble*

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[Michele Poggi]

What’s the purpose of that process? I’m still trying to speed up my machine but there must me something that blocks mediacore, because even with the “Common” folder completely wiped and the Plugins folder almost free it still take ages to go on. My Plugin folder now has the “Effect” folder, Sapphire’s, Trapcode’s and not much more stuff in it. *mumble*

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[Walter Soyka]

Hi Michelle,

Have you tried contacting Adobe support? They may be able to help.

You might try turning off any security software or firewalls you have on your system. 64-bit AE communicates with 32-bit QuickTime via a client/server system that relies on your computer’s network stack.

Failing that, the behavior you’re seeing certainly isn’t normal. I know it’s time-consuming, but I’d consider re-installing AE or even rebuilding the system (and then imaging the good, functional install before beginning project work).

Good luck — and please post back if you find a solution!

Walter Soyka
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[Michele Poggi]

Thanks. :]

Well, being now here, at the point to maybe have to wipe and re-build the system.. Do you, or anyone else, have any advice about this? I have a Workstation so Stability and performance are really important, and I don’t want to Format for then mess things up. Once I heard I actually have to manually install Chipset’s drivers! *gulp*

Oh, and being probably a problem of english not being my native language, what do you mean with “(and then imaging the good, functional install before beginning project work).”. :°

I have a Premium bought Antivirus of VIPRE, I’ll do some tries but I don’t think that’s the problem, sadly I often worked with that off as.. Actually it’s hard for me to find a place with a good internet access.

Thanks for everything, as always.

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[Michele Poggi]

..Woh.

Found it.

It WAS the Antivirus. Stopping it from the beginning of the startup, avoiding it to start actually Lighted A.E. speed on opening itself.

It became almost a thunder (comparing it to before), I saw a strange issue with Mediacore that actually made think A.E. that my effects were duplicates, but since I’m pretty sure I won’t have much use of Mediacore I just deleted them from there. I still have some issues and you guys will be of extreme help to me in the near future (I already opened a thread here about something I’m trying to achieve) but your last advice is been gold. :]

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