My After Effect Renders are taking more time then usual (1 hr for a 1.30mins project)

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My After Effect Renders are taking more time then usual (1 hr for a 1.30mins project)

I am using a Macbook M1 Pro with 10 Core CPU and 16 GB Ram.

When I am working on a project in After effect it runs smooth but whenever I try to render the project the render take allot time then usual (About 1 hr). I tried to render the same project with my friends Macbook M1 Pro with 8 Core cpu and 16 GB ram. and surprisingly the same project took only 10-15 mins to render. ( Used Media Encoder - Basic settings on both of the Mac's while rendering )

Can Anyone help me to resolve it ?

Things I have already tried,

Clearing cache files
Reinstalling Media encoder
Installed Previous version of Media encoder
Tried with different projects (result is the same - take 4/5x longer time then usual)
Tried rendering from the after effect render panel , result is somewhat the same.

Posted on Jul 4, 2022 3:03 AM

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Owl-53

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Jul 4, 2022 4:02 AM in response to MhTusher

1 - Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.

2 - Does the issue present in this mode ?

3 - Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.

4 - If not - there could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.

5 - If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.

Understand, we are all working Remotely from all around the world.

Therefore, we do not have the On-Hands experience the User ( you ) has with this computer.

The next best thing for us to having an actual On-Hand experience on this computer is to follow the steps below

Download the Application Etrecheck directly from a well Respected ASC Contributor. And Safe to use.

The application is free or paid from added features.

Run the application with Full Disc Access ( Security & Privacy - Full Disc Access ).

It will take a Snap Shot - both the hardware and software.

The Report will Not Reveal Any Personal Information.

Post back the Full Report - copy and paste - using the Additional Text Icon ( 3rd Icon to last )

We can have a look at the report for possible issues and may have possible suggestions to resolve the issues.

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Owl-53

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Jul 4, 2022 3:48 AM in response to MhTusher

Q - " and I am exporting the project to a folder in my desktop. "

A - Is this Folder on the Desktop Associated with or connect to using iCloud ?

A - Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive

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MhTusher Author

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Jul 13, 2022 3:02 AM in response to Owl-53

The time machine required external HDD which I dont have at this moment :(

Moreover I found a solution, I downgraded my Adobe After effect to a previous version and also the Adobe Media Encoder. Now I can render just fine. I hope Apple fix this issue with the next MacOS.

Thanks allot for helping out friend. You are Great <3

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Owl-53

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Jul 4, 2022 3:10 AM in response to MhTusher

The only difference, if any, is Empty Space on the Problematic Drive / Computer ?

Has the user checked this out ?

Lack of Empty Space could be a factor as it is attempting to find space on the drive ?

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Owl-53

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Jul 6, 2022 2:25 AM in response to MhTusher

Thank you for the Report.

I have dissected every detail in this report and see nothing that would result in this behaviour.

Exception, " Google Chrome Helper (Renderer) (4) 534 MB (Google LLC) " which is known to be a Resource and Memory Hog. An alternative without the overhead of Google might be www.brave.com

Outside of the Rendering issue - Time Machine Backup is not setup. Anything that can not be replaced or recreated is worth protecting IMHO

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MhTusher Author

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Jul 5, 2022 10:58 PM in response to Owl-53

I have tried the methods mention above but seems like non of them worked for me.

Additionally I have also tried reinstalling mac os followed by erasing everything from the disk drive. :(

This is frustrating for me. and there's no Apple Store or official service center available in my country either

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Owl-53

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Jul 13, 2022 4:10 AM in response to MhTusher

Good you found a workable solution 👍

You may consider marking your solution as Solved so others seeing this may follow your idea and downgrade the Adobe software.

Q - " I hope Apple fix this issue with the next MacOS. "

A - As the Software in question " Adobe " is not owned by Apple , I doubt Apple needs to fixing anything.

It is the responsibility of the third party software to make their software fit into and work with the version macOS it is intended to work in.

A - As for the next version of macOS 13 Ventura - too little is known able this macOS..

If, the now downgraded version of Adobe Software, did not perform well in Monterey - why would one expect it to work well in a newer version of macOS Ventura ?

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