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Small pause every time I switch back to AE
Hey there,
Since about a week there’s a small pause of about one or two seconds every time I switch back to After Effects after having done something in another program. Before this was never a problem. This is even if I apple-tab between finder and AE without doing anytging else. It’s almost like AE is searching for something before it can continue again, and it seems to take up enormous CPU-power, because even iTunes will skip a little (which NEVER happens on my Quad-core Mac Pro Workhorse).
I don’t remember installing any specific programs or plugins right before this started happending, but it could be that I did. Now before I start an entire trial-and-error operation to find out what’s causing this: has anyone had this problem or a clue to what it could be? It’s only a small pause but it gets very annoying, especially if you’re drag-dropping a lot of files into AE.
Thanks in advance!
Ralf Hekkenberg -
4 Replies
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Hi Dave, thanks you very much for your reply but no, unfortunately this happens even with just a brand new empty project…
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Have you altered the Memory and Multiprocessing Preferences?
Have you tried trashing After Effects Preferences?
Have you checked Activity Monitor to see whether it provides any clues to the slowdown?
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I’m guessing that you are trying to run too many programs with too little RAM, and the operating system is needing to swap the contents of RAM to the hard disk every time you switch applications. This is a sign of a very bad memory setup that will also cripple your performance within After Effects.
What are your Memory & Multiprocessor settings?
See this page for information about memory and performance in After Effects.
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Sorry for the long pause, but I’ve been incredibly busy (like most of you I guess).
The thing is.. it stopped! Somehow, it went from an annoyance that was there every time I started up After Effects (not just when I had a lot of programs open or when I was working on a particularly heavy project), to not being there at all.
I only realised it after a while, so I don’t remember doing anything special to make it stop, unfortunately. But I’m sure I didn’t uninstall any programs or plugins.
Well, let’s hope it doesn’t come back.Thanks for trying to help, guys!
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