[Fynn Laue]

The only way I know is to make a ‘dynamic link’ to a Premiere Pro-project.

It basically links your AE-composition to a sequence in Premiere so that you don’t have to re-export from After Effects every time you change something, but you can simply render directly inside Premiere and also be able to make changes in After Effects on the fly.
Hope this helps.
cheers, Fynn

[Fynn Laue]

yes, it’s by expression. I started disabling all linked expression shapes (by pressing the “=” in the expression). Didn’t seem to do much.
Could it be possible that shape-layers just have a high cpu-usage or because I have so many of them?
Or does After Effects maybe also cache/buffer all other comps in the project, even if they’re not open in a tab?

[Fynn Laue]

Hey Dan,
Thanks for taking the time! The code works really well, I love how short and clear it is now.
However the whole comp still is incredibly slow. My cpu is mostly at around 70%. Sometimes it jumps around all the way from 1%-100%. It is really strange.
I have googled a bit for problems with expressions, and everyone seems to be very unhappy with how slow they are. Is that just the way it is, or is there a way I can make my comp be faster?
Please note, that I have a lot of child-layers parented to nulls so I can scale every digit uniformly and unparenting the path of the shape-objects didn’t seem to help much.

cheers, Fynn.

[Fynn Laue]

You probably already found a solution to your problem by now.. But I encountered the same and my solution was simply to change the first drop down-menu from “copy” to “recompress” and then choose my desired format and directory.