the first 3 methods u used worked great for me and i dont face lag anymore as im a big content creator i was struggling with this for a while after switching what device i worked on, thank you so much
Dear god thank you i had like 94 gigs of cache that needed to be cleared every other video i saw was literally babbling about nothing thank you so much
I'm watching this in 2022 and it stills works!!!!!!👑👑👑👑👑💯❤️🥺❤️🥺❤️❤️ Omg you're the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I acc thought I was going to destroy my PC and starts saving for another PC 😭😭😭 you just proved me wrong ..!!! I'm so addicted to editing thanks
You really helped me out here I’m so thankful you made this video I tried watching a few other before this and to no avail but you ms girrlll came in clutch I love you !
Wow! this video helped me a lot, especially with the clear cache step. I had around 21 gb worth of storage and when i cleared it, the lag completely went away
Thank you! Works much better! There still are some minor issues with the audio either decreasing sound or missyncing, but it's pretty fair since I only have 8 GB of RAM 😅 Planning to get 32 GB in the future!
3/4 through the vid and it made ae work a lot better but still not completely well, I still can’t pause. I’ll update when I’ve watched the full vid Edit: This works so well! I have no lag now!!!! Tysm!!!!!
It seemed to have worked fine on the initial playback. But once I created a new edit and hit the spacebar, it played fast up until the edit then went back to slower than dial-up modem speed.🤬
@@GDHT 128GB. Boom…just began happening. At first I figured it was because I did some minor text animation because it jammed up right there on that text layer so I deleted the text and re-did w/o anim. No change. God, this is maddening. 5-6 minutes to process 5-6 seconds of project is completely untenable. Already checked the ae community. No help. Just tons of tedious hoops to jump thru.
thank you, the last steps helped me a lot. I was trying to edit a video but it kept crashing because it kept trying to load the whole video. but now it loads smooth.
Hello! not sure if you still reply here, your techniques helped! However I realize my animation playback is playing twice as slow than its supposed timing, I believe it is one of the settings but I can't seem to retrace my steps, would you know which one would help to make it playback realtime?
Hey, I've got a weird problem I thought this would fix but it doesn't. I have to work with a template. When I have that template project imported, not even being used, just imported, I make a new comp and a text layer. The text takes 10 seconds to register a key press. I remove the template and it's back to normal. What's processing?
Saddeningly none of these worked. It sucks since I'm trying to make multiple visuals for each little sound in a song, so a waveform wouldn't work well, and hearing by ear is impossible due to the lag. Are there no other last resort cases? Maybe my laptop simply is not good enough for After Effects? I have 8 Gigabytes of ram if it matters, alongside an "Intel Core i5-7300HQ" CPU, and a "Nvidia GTX 1050" GPU. I am using a laptop with 2 GPUs, but I have specifically assigned After Effects to use my more powerful Nvidia CPU. The other CPU is an "Intel HD Graphics 630" CPU.
@@GDHT Alright, that's perfectly fair. I'll probably update you when and if I get the extra ram. Thank you so much though for seeing this comment despite the video being over 3 months old!
@@Ibbys_space ok! I try to respond to all my comments even on five year old videos, hee hee! But it’s actually really hard with replies, because I don’t get notifications for those in the same way. Anyway, I digress! My Mac has 16gb and it’s still a bit laggy.
I am currently on after effects, the preview of my clip is horrible and the audio randomly skips around with the preview fine. It doesnt fix itself even when i replace the clip or interpret the footage. Please help, this is driving me crazy I have found 0 solutions
Great tips, thanks! For me, the culprit turned out to be the Libraries panel. Try closing this if After Effects is sluggish when you're working on a project.
hii this vid helped me but i think i messed up something with my composition settings and it’s back to being laggy, ive already tried all these steps do you know what i should do
download was successful but i'm facing a error / problem on it . THE ERROR IS :- this effect may slow down preview and export as it is not optimized for multi-frame rendering. help us
I need help. Everything is good at all but as soon as I try to make a change, the whole thing stops like I push play, but nothing plays at all not even the audio. He only works when I log back out of the app and log back in but as soon as I try to make a change, it goes to a stop. Sometimes it would even play with just the audio and not the video running and sometimes it would just stop completely, and only be a black screen
Oh my goodness it worked. Thank you so much you just got you a follower. I have been asking people around and no one can give me an answer and you gave me just what I needed. I don’t really understand computers because I never really got it but thank you.
I have a similar but different problem. I just put a 40 second long mp4 video in After Effects, and since then, it lasts three seconds or so to pause it when I click the spacebar. What can I do to avoid that problem?
i have done everything in the video, but now when i jump like 3 seconds further in my footage, the preview takes a long time to load that frame. Can you help me?
your video didn't help in my case, but i discovered my problem. don't know if someone will use it but i'll comment anyway. last week i was troubleshooting an error i had with AE and one person told to activate compatibility mode in the program shortcut to open as windows 7, i did that and it didn't work but i left that way. some time later i fixed the thing, then i noticed after effects was taking like 1/2 seconds to respond EACH click i did. it was bad. today, trying to fix it seeing your video, i remembered and deactivated compatibility mode. fixed instantly, i'm reliefed, AE is fast (kinda), all good. probably no one will find this useful (too specific) but that's it!
Sorry, these are the only ways I know to fix the lag. Although the specs say 8GB, I have trouble with lag on my 16GB computer! So maybe it's a RAM issue.
I tried everything and it’s still so laggy, but I noticed in GPU information my texture memory is set to 0mb and I’m unable to click on it, it’s locked :((((
Holy shit this actually helped, I have a great macbook but After Effects was only using like 1/6th of its power by default, no way. I feel so dumb now hahahah Thank you!
I have issues with laggy rendered playback. The timeline or chunk of the timeline I want to view is green and fully rendered but it still will playback laggy and slow sometimes. Are these tips to fix that problem or is this video more about making the program render faster. It doesn't make any sense to me why a fully rendered part of the timeline would playback slowly. Thanks so much!
I did some of the things you did but i still have freeze issues, T.T i can play the preview but everytime it reaches the part with lots of layers it can't be paused and it completely freezes. How can i compile the clips? T.T
@@GDHT I only have a "close to bad" laptop with 4gb ram :( I don't make big project's maybe 30 sec - 1min long vids but thats it. Aside from that, i gave my laptop a system update today so i suspect that would have something to do too. Thank you for replying btw
This didn’t work and im upset because I’ve tried everything :( I even updated my graphics card but ae keeps crashing and display acceleration disabled pops up and slows everything down.
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Love you
yeah maybe ill look deaper into it
Thank you!!
I was struggling to find a solution, but this video completely fixed my issue. Thank you so much for the insight!
You're welcome!
The best tutorial I've watched in a while - straight to the point & saved me a tonne of time!
Thank you!! 😊 I'm so glad to hear that!
how did you get verified without having much subscriber and even you didn't upload a single video ?
the first 3 methods u used worked great for me and i dont face lag anymore as im a big content creator i was struggling with this for a while after switching what device i worked on, thank you so much
You're welcome - I'm so glad the video helped!
literally thank you so much! my video kept lagging and i was so stressed about it but this just solved all my problems!
You're welcome - I'm so glad it helped!
@@GDHT shush
Dear god thank you i had like 94 gigs of cache that needed to be cleared every other video i saw was literally babbling about nothing thank you so much
You’re welcome 😊 I'm so glad it helped!!
Finally someone who goes straight to the point. Brava.
Thank you!! 🙂
I'm watching this in 2022 and it stills works!!!!!!👑👑👑👑👑💯❤️🥺❤️🥺❤️❤️ Omg you're the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I acc thought I was going to destroy my PC and starts saving for another PC 😭😭😭 you just proved me wrong ..!!! I'm so addicted to editing thanks
Aww thank you so much 😊
Great video, kept it short and simple, and straight to the point. This seriously helped me out, thanks a ton👍
You're welcome...and thank you so much!
Clearing my cache fixed it entirely thank you so much!
Oh that is so great to hear! :D
Just tried all these steps and things work so much faster. Thank you.
Oh that is great to hear!!
i didnt know why my after effects gets slower over time, when i checked my cache it has like 3.5gb lol, thanks alot, really helped out
You're welcome - I'm so glad the video helped!!
My ae used to be fast then slowed down throught the week but this video fixed it thanks!
You're welcome! I'm so happy to hear that!!
Thank you so much for your help. It really helps me the best. I've been struggling for 3 days until I found you. Thanks again.
Thank you so much - I'm so happy to hear that!
You really helped me out here I’m so thankful you made this video I tried watching a few other before this and to no avail but you ms girrlll came in clutch I love you !
You're welcome - I'm so glad I could help!
Wow! this video helped me a lot, especially with the clear cache step. I had around 21 gb worth of storage and when i cleared it, the lag completely went away
Oh wow, that's a ton of storage! I'm so glad the video helped! :)
The shortest and most thorough video on this issue... thank you!
You're welcome!! 😊 And thank you so much!!
Clearing the disk cache and adjusting memory didn't work for me. I tried the other steps in your video and it actually worked. You're a legend 🙌
You're welcome! And thank you!
Ossum.. it totally worked for me. I was thinking to get a new laptop untill i found you. Thanks so much!!!
You're welcome - I'm glad to hear that!
whoa! with just the first one you taught, my AE already worked back to normal. thank you so much!!
You're welcome - I'm so glad it was helpful!
Thank you! Works much better! There still are some minor issues with the audio either decreasing sound or missyncing, but it's pretty fair since I only have 8 GB of RAM 😅 Planning to get 32 GB in the future!
Oh you will love 32 GB!!
Thank you, this work around was presented clearly & succinctly with no fuss.
You're welcome! And thank you so much!!
3/4 through the vid and it made ae work a lot better but still not completely well, I still can’t pause.
I’ll update when I’ve watched the full vid
Edit: This works so well! I have no lag now!!!! Tysm!!!!!
Awesome! I’m so glad to hear that!
All these settings helped me, thank you!
You're welcome - I'm so glad it was helpful!
It seemed to have worked fine on the initial playback. But once I created a new edit and hit the spacebar, it played fast up until the edit then went back to slower than dial-up modem speed.🤬
Ughhh I'm sorry that happened!! How much RAM do you have?
@@GDHT 128GB. Boom…just began happening. At first I figured it was because I did some minor text animation because it jammed up right there on that text layer so I deleted the text and re-did w/o anim. No change. God, this is maddening. 5-6 minutes to process 5-6 seconds of project is completely untenable. Already checked the ae community. No help. Just tons of tedious hoops to jump thru.
That is DEFINITELY enough RAM. I'm so sorry - I wish I knew more ways to fix it. Unfortunately the ones in the video are all I've got.
Wow this video worked great thanks for the clear documentation and easy to follow video!
You're welcome - and thank you!
Thank you, this really helped and you were very easy to follow.
You're welcome - I'm glad it helped!
just want to say wow amazing tutorial sister
Thank you so much 🙂
Thank you so much for this video! I really appreciate your help and your clear instructions/guidance. I really needed to fix this issue!
You're welcome - I'm so glad it worked for you!!
OMG I love you for this. I was at my wits end with this.
Aww thank you! I'm so happy it was helpful!
Thanks for posting this. Was getting tired of my AE comps sounding like Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
You're welcome! We can't be hearing her at midnight when trying to finish up a project! Too spooky! Haha!
thank you, the last steps helped me a lot. I was trying to edit a video but it kept crashing because it kept trying to load the whole video. but now it loads smooth.
You're welcome! I'm so happy it helped!
Tried your tips and it is working thanks a lot for saving my time.
You're welcome - I'm so happy to heart that!!
Ohhhh, Thank you so much dear, I was really struggling to find a solution, and you just fixed it for me
You're welcome!!
Hello! not sure if you still reply here, your techniques helped! However I realize my animation playback is playing twice as slow than its supposed timing, I believe it is one of the settings but I can't seem to retrace my steps, would you know which one would help to make it playback realtime?
Thank you!! I'm not sure on that, but this video might help: ua-cam.com/video/oQshml0v4ac/v-deo.html
Omg thank u so much I have the newer version every time I added a cc it would just not work thank you so much
You're welcome! I know that lag can be such a pain.
turning off hardware acceleration totally fixed my problem!! thanks so much!
Awesome - I'm glad that worked!!
i did everything and it worked thanks Miss
You're welcome - I'm so glad to hear that!
Hey, I've got a weird problem I thought this would fix but it doesn't. I have to work with a template. When I have that template project imported, not even being used, just imported, I make a new comp and a text layer. The text takes 10 seconds to register a key press. I remove the template and it's back to normal. What's processing?
It sounds like something in the template is weighing down the program.
@@GDHT Thank you, yes it's strange.
Thanks! Luv ur video~ and merry Christmas =D
Thank you so much!
wow it actually worked the first solution actually worked TYSM time was being wasted a lot cause of ae loading ty :DD
Awesome! I’m so glad it helped!
thank you so much! it worked and ive been dealing with this for a very long time but now its solved! thank you again :)
Awesome!! I'm so happy to hear that!
I needed this, thank you
You're welcome!
really good info, changing to the 1/16 render setting on preferences really helped just that in urs its a drop down now its a scrollbar sorta thing
Thank you! I'm so glad the video helped (somewhat!)
I want to express my greatest gratitude to you oh kind person
I thought I'd have to tell my parents they wasted money buying me adobe after effects
You're welcome - I'm so glad the video helped!!
pls keep posting ur vids are so useful ty lady
Thank you so much 😊
Thanks a lot. Very clear. Very helpful. 🙂
You're welcome - I'm so glad it was helpful!
YOU SAVED MY LAIFEE!!! thank you soo much for thiss, appreciate it truly 😊🤟🏽
You're welcome! I'm so glad it helped!
How is this for exr files? im using a ryzen 5950x with rtx 3080 and its still slow.
Hmmm, I'm not sure. I've never used it for that before.
Very helpful! Thank you very much!
You're welcome - I'm so glad it was helpful!
Thank you Sis, it worked 😊
You're welcome!
thank u! does these settings affect the full rendered video/footage when exported?
No; it shouldn't affect anything at all!
Saddeningly none of these worked. It sucks since I'm trying to make multiple visuals for each little sound in a song, so a waveform wouldn't work well, and hearing by ear is impossible due to the lag. Are there no other last resort cases? Maybe my laptop simply is not good enough for After Effects?
I have 8 Gigabytes of ram if it matters, alongside an "Intel Core i5-7300HQ" CPU, and a "Nvidia GTX 1050" GPU. I am using a laptop with 2 GPUs, but I have specifically assigned After Effects to use my more powerful Nvidia CPU. The other CPU is an "Intel HD Graphics 630" CPU.
8 GB of ram is most likely the problem. That's the bare minimum to run Adobe programs, and AE takes up a TON of ram!!
@@GDHT Aww, that really sucks. I'll check out if I could get more ram on my device. Would 16 GB of ram reduce most of the lag?
@@Ibbys_space hopefully! I do think 8 gb is the main culprit.
@@GDHT Alright, that's perfectly fair. I'll probably update you when and if I get the extra ram. Thank you so much though for seeing this comment despite the video being over 3 months old!
@@Ibbys_space ok! I try to respond to all my comments even on five year old videos, hee hee! But it’s actually really hard with replies, because I don’t get notifications for those in the same way. Anyway, I digress! My Mac has 16gb and it’s still a bit laggy.
How should I know my laptop texture memory ! After effect is driving me crazy on MacBook Pro
It should be under 'About this Mac' under the Apple menu.
this is so helpful thank you so much !!!
You're welcome!!
Thank u so much it finally worked u saved the day
You're welcome! I'm so happy the video helped!!
can you please tell me how to fix that slow wierd sound coming from my audio ????
Is it only on my video?
No I mean in after effects when I play video the sound slows and the video slows too ...
I did everything in vid , didn't work .
Oh ok. Sorry to hear that! These are the only ways I know to fix it, unfortunately. Do you have more than 8 GB of RAM?
@@GDHT nah I have 8GB
@@cosmolic240 that’s most likely your problem. AE will run on 8 GB but it will probably always be laggy…it’s the bare minimum.
I am currently on after effects, the preview of my clip is horrible and the audio randomly skips around with the preview fine. It doesnt fix itself even when i replace the clip or interpret the footage. Please help, this is driving me crazy I have found 0 solutions
I'm so sorry, but these are all the ways I know to speed/fix things!!
so if i put it as "quarter" and if i render the video it will come out clear and not bad quality?
Yes! :D
Great tips, thanks! For me, the culprit turned out to be the Libraries panel. Try closing this if After Effects is sluggish when you're working on a project.
Oh, that's good to know - I've also had 'Sync Libraries' cause lots of issues in Photoshop, etc. Thank you!
I tried every step but when i try to watch the preview it goes really slow after i add a effect
Effects do tend to bog things down. How much ram do you have?
This video helped me a lot. Thank you.
You're welcome!!
hii this vid helped me but i think i messed up something with my composition settings and it’s back to being laggy, ive already tried all these steps do you know what i should do
Sorry, these are all the things I know that can help!
Awesome 👍 really professional suggestions thanks for that 🙂
You're welcome..and thank you!
TYSM that worked with ease.
You're welcome!! I'm glad it was helpful!
download was successful but i'm facing a error / problem on it . THE ERROR IS :- this effect may slow down preview and export as it is not optimized for multi-frame rendering. help us
Your effect is causing the program to run slowly. I would take it off until the very end, then add it on and export.
i owe you my life
god bless you and your future genertations
Aww thank you! I'm so glad the video helped!
Wonderful, no fluff, just useful tips. Thanks a bunch!
You're welcome - I'm so glad it was helpful!
I need help. Everything is good at all but as soon as I try to make a change, the whole thing stops like I push play, but nothing plays at all not even the audio. He only works when I log back out of the app and log back in but as soon as I try to make a change, it goes to a stop.
Sometimes it would even play with just the audio and not the video running and sometimes it would just stop completely, and only be a black screen
How much RAM do you have?
@@GDHT what is that?
@@Pramhedax it’s a computer spec. AE requires at least 8gb.
OK let me see if it will work
Oh my goodness it worked. Thank you so much you just got you a follower. I have been asking people around and no one can give me an answer and you gave me just what I needed. I don’t really understand computers because I never really got it but thank you.
LIFE SAVER - thank you!
You're welcome!!!
what if when u go to gpu info and it will not let you change the texture memory, what do I do then?
Hmmm I'm not sure I've ever had that happen. Sorry I don't have an answer for you!
Omg thank you so much…. You are a LIFE SAVER
You're welcome - I am so happy to hear that!!
2:27 this saved my life thank u 😭
You're welcome!!
I have a similar but different problem. I just put a 40 second long mp4 video in After Effects, and since then, it lasts three seconds or so to pause it when I click the spacebar.
What can I do to avoid that problem?
It sounds like, if you've tried everything in the video, that your ram might not be high enough.
You are my hero. Thank you.
Aww thank you so much!!
i have done everything in the video, but now when i jump like 3 seconds further in my footage, the preview takes a long time to load that frame. Can you help me?
Unfortunately, these are the only things I know how to do to make it faster in after effects. Sorry about that!
@@GDHT np! i think i overtuned the preferences so i will reset my preferences.
I hope it works! Good luck :)
Yup better than other tips n tricks videos
Thank you!!
Thank you so much! This did the trick for me!
You're welcome - I'm so glad it was helpful!
Helpful video...
Another quick option to delete memory and disk cache.
EDIT - PURGE - ALL MEMORY & DISK CACHE
Thanks for the info - that is helpful! :)
your video didn't help in my case, but i discovered my problem. don't know if someone will use it but i'll comment anyway. last week i was troubleshooting an error i had with AE and one person told to activate compatibility mode in the program shortcut to open as windows 7, i did that and it didn't work but i left that way. some time later i fixed the thing, then i noticed after effects was taking like 1/2 seconds to respond EACH click i did. it was bad. today, trying to fix it seeing your video, i remembered and deactivated compatibility mode. fixed instantly, i'm reliefed, AE is fast (kinda), all good. probably no one will find this useful (too specific) but that's it!
Thank you for this info; sorry the video didn't help!
Hey I pressed render software only what do I do my pc slow
If you've tried everything in the video, I'm so sorry, but those are the only methods I know to do. :/
very helpful. thank you
You're welcome - I'm so glad the video helped!!
my ae doesn't lag when I'm editing but when i close my project then open it again, it just starts to lag so much, why? and how do i fix it??
Sorry, these are the only ways I know to fix the lag. Although the specs say 8GB, I have trouble with lag on my 16GB computer! So maybe it's a RAM issue.
Thank you. Great Technical stuff.
You're welcome...and thank you!!
In the GPU Information section, if my VGA card is RTX 3050 4GB, does the "Texture Memory" have 4000MB too?
I am really not sure on this one. Sorry!!
Great tips. Thanks! :)
You're welcome! And thank you!!
THANK U THE THRID STRATEGY WORKED FOR ME!!!!
You're welcome - I'm so glad it helped!!
thank you this video really helped me
You're welcome - I'm so glad it helped!
@@GDHT also if you don’t mind answering, what should i do if my laptop heats up to 84°C while editing in ae?
@@d7r1a I would get a fan for it!
@@GDHT thank you for the response but there are already two fans :(
Hmmm sorry to hear that - I've actually never had this problem, so I don't have good advice for you.
I tried everything and it’s still so laggy, but I noticed in GPU information my texture memory is set to 0mb and I’m unable to click on it, it’s locked :((((
Ooh sorry - these are the only ways I know to speed things up.
I can’t find the Media part in the edit section.
What part of the video are you referencing (min, sec)?
Thank you so much you just saved me from so much troubles haha
You're welcome - I'm so glad it helped!
omgggg ut rlly works for me the second method, tysm!!
You're welcome! 😊
Holy shit this actually helped, I have a great macbook but After Effects was only using like 1/6th of its power by default, no way. I feel so dumb now hahahah
Thank you!
You're welcome - I'm so glad it was helpful!!
You saved my buns!! I love you! xD
You're welcome!
I have issues with laggy rendered playback. The timeline or chunk of the timeline I want to view is green and fully rendered but it still will playback laggy and slow sometimes. Are these tips to fix that problem or is this video more about making the program render faster. It doesn't make any sense to me why a fully rendered part of the timeline would playback slowly. Thanks so much!
Yes I agree - I've had that happen a few times too!
I did some of the things you did but i still have freeze issues, T.T i can play the preview but everytime it reaches the part with lots of layers it can't be paused and it completely freezes. How can i compile the clips? T.T
How much RAM do you have? It might be an issue with that, if you've tried everything in the video.
@@GDHT I only have a "close to bad" laptop with 4gb ram :( I don't make big project's maybe 30 sec - 1min long vids but thats it. Aside from that, i gave my laptop a system update today so i suspect that would have something to do too. Thank you for replying btw
Ah ok, that's the issue most likely, then. AE requires at least 8 GB of RAM...and that's the bare minimum.
@@GDHT I've already finished making 4 compositions, and back then it didn't freeze, not even once, It only happened now :(
Huh, I'm surprised it ever worked ok. I wish I had better advice for you!
I followed what u did but now if i even open adobe ae it crashes idk what to do please help me 😢
Hmm I’m not sure why that’s happening. How much RAM do you have?
@@GDHT 12
But b4 it used to work better
12 is pretty good. I'm not sure why it's happening - unfortunately all the ways I know to solve it are in the video.
after doing all the steps i still have problems but why?? the computer is new, I do not understand
How much RAM do you have?
@@GDHT 4GB… is it low?
This didn’t work and im upset because I’ve tried everything :( I even updated my graphics card but ae keeps crashing and display acceleration disabled pops up and slows everything down.
How much RAM do you have?
@@GDHT I have 16 GB
@@picoaqui ok it really should run somewhat ok with that much Ram. My computer also has 16 gb and it’s not great but it works somewhat.
I wish I had a better solution for you!
@@GDHTThank you so much for taking the time to respond though!
You are simply genious!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!
You're welcome...and thank you!!