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How to Speed Up After Effects Rendering on Mac Mini M1

I have a 2020Mac mini M1 that I bought last year. I bought every upgrade possible, the 2TB hard drive, 16GB of Ram, 🐑 8 cores. I don't know the processor speed, but it was the fastest one they had.


I bought it because I needed something beefier to be able to use Adobe After Effects. Even with every upgrade possible, After Effects Rendering is still a lengthy process, sometimes taking 12 hours to render a 10 minute movie.


Is there anything anyone can recommend to get more out of the computer? I looked into using extra SSD space as additional RAM but that appears to happen automatically. Of course the RAM is not upgradable.


Purchasing a $5,000 Mac Pro for a hobby is out of the question.

Mac mini, macOS 12.5

Posted on Oct 5, 2022 8:21 PM

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Posted on Oct 6, 2022 6:30 AM

You can review the minimum and the recommended hardware configuration for Adobe After Effects here. Depending on the size of your workflow, your 2020 M1 mini may still be under-configured for what you are attempting to do, and that would make you hardware-constrained.


If not done already, ensure that you have updated Monterey to 12.6 and use the currently available After Effects version.


Participate in the Adobe After Effects community to see other possible recommendations for your configuration.

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Oct 6, 2022 6:30 AM in response to phkc070408

You can review the minimum and the recommended hardware configuration for Adobe After Effects here. Depending on the size of your workflow, your 2020 M1 mini may still be under-configured for what you are attempting to do, and that would make you hardware-constrained.


If not done already, ensure that you have updated Monterey to 12.6 and use the currently available After Effects version.


Participate in the Adobe After Effects community to see other possible recommendations for your configuration.

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