I'm also finding Ae 2017 to be unusable. I had to upgrade because I was having issues with my installation and had to reinstall.I opened a project from the previous version of Ae CC and it was converted for 2017. Playback of the 20 second long project causes the program to bog down horribly and audio playback sounds delayed and distorted.System: Mac Pro Mid 20122x 2.4 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC RAMNVIDIA Quadro K5000 4096 MBinternal SSD drive with external for media.AE Settings-Audio Hardware:Device Class: CoreAudioI/O Buffer 1024Sample Rate 44100'Attempt to force.' Unchecked.Video Preview:Enable Mercury Transmit (unchecked but I've tried both with and without and had the same horrible results)end AE Settings -More info.If I create a new project and import the same audio file and only play that file back, it sounds fine. As soon as I create a comp with three text layers that have animated presets applied and a single solid with an animated backgroun preset, the whole thing bogs down after about four seconds of playback. Hi Michael,A few questions:.
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The After Effects icon will bounce in the dock (Mac OS) or flash in the task bar (Windows) to indicate that caching is complete. Faster import and caching of image sequences. In After Effects CC 2015.3 (13.8) image sequences now import much faster, especially from network drives.
In the Audio Hardware preferences, what is Default Output set to? A screenshot really would help here.
What version of macOS are you using?. Are you experiencing any other playback issues in either After Effects CC 2017 or CC 2015.3?And is there any chance you could share a project with us that exhibits the problem? I recognize that you said you could reproduce it rather easily, but we cannot reproduce with that basic description, so it may be something specific to the files or settings you are using. Always best if we could see exactly what you're doing. Tom, Michael, Bram,Does your timeline have a lot of keyframes, or even just a lot of layers, visible when the problem occurs?One of our developers is investigating a similar-sounding problem on this forum thread:Does following his suggestions there, either minimizing or closing the Timeline panel, help with this problem?
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That helped for a user on that forum thread.(I would appreciate if you would continue to post on that thread, which our developer is monitoring. I will be out of the office for an extended period soon and probably won't be replying to this thread for the next couple of weeks.). The strange thing for me is it happens sometimes, and sometimes I have no issues with the playback (I just played with it 2 hours as I'm currently using 2015.3 for my work projects), when it works correctly I can't see a very good upgrade in the preview speed vs 2015.3.
When the crash happens, it can be on a 3 layers composition or 120 layers composition.Another fact: When the playback crashes and I quit and relaunch the app, AE 2017 is unusable, very laggy, slow to load project files etc. I have to restart the computer. I'm monitoring CPU and it's at 10% max, same for RAM.The huge issue I have is really with the screaming BEEP when I preview composition with audio file (even when I create a new project with just a mp3 or wav file in it). Here's a bug: I'm not able to select the topmost item within the project window.
(Or twirl open the first item if it's a folder.) I can select any other item below it.If I retitle any other item so that it moves to the first of the list alphabetically, then it becomes unselectable and the previously unaccessible item becomes selectable. This is true of comp items, footage, solids, whatever.I also am unable to resort the Project Window by the 'Name', 'Label Group', and 'Comment' column headings.
They are also unselectable. Type, Size, Media Duration, and File Path column headings are clickable, however.I'm on Mac OS 10.10.5.Edit: After opening a 13.8.1 project, I'm unable to reproduce this error, even in newly created projects. This is what I get when (improperly) previewing with the spacebar:The timeline gets cached(?) – AE saves a file – and exits to the desktop showing an error window like the image above.I'm running AE CC 2017 and OS X 10.12.1 on a newer (trashcan) Mac Pro.This behavior is 100% of the time with a project created and converted from 2015.3.I haven't see this happen with a new project made in 2017 yet. And importing the 2015.3 project into a 2017 project didn't trick it. The sequence I was trying to preview had no plugins running except Lumetri. I get the same result if I hide everything in the timeline and hit spacebar.So I'm wondering where to start.clean install?
Remove all third party plug ins? Live with it for another week until this legacy project is done and hope that a new project that originates in 2017 doesn't exhibit this behavior? Keep searching the help forums for what a 'proper RAM preview means';-)Kevin TaylorAtlanta GA. We can't be too hard on Adobe, they are only trying to bring AE up to speed with the preview thing, I am sure there's lots o' math involved with 2.5D, vectors, etc.
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And like Dave said, every new release is bound to be riddled with bugs, no company can escape it.That being said, here is my workaround. I find that scrubbing is the only way to avoid the crash.
While there is now sound, at least we can still work while they fix this.I have a hunch that this has to do with audio sample rates. In the last update, audio first came out as a distorted down pitched version until the comp was cached. This leads me to believe that AE is downsampling the clock speed of the audio (playing 44.1K at 22K etc) while it caches the comp. This can always lead to problems in Audio DAWs and I think this is where the crash might be coming from, most soundcards don't like playing different clock speeds at the same time and every modern DAW converts any rogue sample rates to conform with the document. Just a guess.I was also able to have a good preview by turning off sound, and checking 'cache before playback' like you did Tom, but that isn't always helpful as you have to wait until it caches the entire comp and that can take lots of time. So scrubbing it is. I guess if sound were super crucial then porting it over to Premiere might be the best workaround for that.
Description Name: Adobe After Effects CC 2015 for MacVersion: 13.8.1Release Date: 05 Aug 2016Mac Platform: IntelSystem Requirement:・OS X 10.9 or later・64-bit processor・4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)・6 GB available hard-disk space for installation・1440x900 display・OpenGL 2.0-capable system・QuickTime 7.6.6 for QuickTime features・Internet connectionWeb Site: new, more connected After Effects CC 2015 can make the impossible possible. Get powerful new features like a Live 3D Pipeline that brings CINEMA 4D scenes in as layers - without intermediate rendering. Share work directly from within the application and get access to new features the moment they're released. Your entire creative world, together in one place.After Effects CC is part of Creative Cloud. That means you have access to all the latest updates and future releases the moment they're available.
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