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Adobe After Effects: Optimizations

Adjust your Adobe After Effects settings for best performance while using Suite.

Updated over 2 weeks ago

✅ Adobe's complete optimization guide for After Effects is available here.

Set your Media & Disk Cache

  1. Go to Preferences > Media & Disk Cache.

  2. Ensure Media Cache and Cache Database are not set to a location on Suite.

Increase RAM Allocation

In Preferences > Memory & Performance, let After Effects use more RAM.
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If After Effects feels sluggish

  1. Option to clean up old conformed media and database entries. Preferences > Media & Disk Cache > Clean Database & Cache
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  2. Investigate the Purge menu (Edit > Purge):
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    • All Memory - Clears RAM previews and memory-resident frame data

    • All Disk Cache - Deletes all rendered previews and frame data stored on disk

    • All 3D Cache - Clears temporary GPU and memory buffers used for rendering 3D layers and 3D interactions in compositions

    • Image Cache Memory - Clears the portion of RAM used to hold images/frames only
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💡 Pro Tip: During export, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, or Adobe Media Encoder (AME) may generate temporary files, such as .m4v, .m4a, and files with _00_ in the filename. These are significantly larger than the final .mp4 file and are only created to be used to multiplex audio and video streams into the final .mp4

If your internet connection isn’t fast enough to quickly upload these large temporary files in the background, try exporting to a local directory first. Once the export is complete, you can upload that file to Suite.

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