⚠️ Here is the official Adobe After Effects optimization guide
Set your Media & Disk Cache
Go to
Preferences > Media & Disk Cache
Ensure
Media Cache
andCache Database
are not set to the Suite drive
Increase RAM Allocation
In Preferences > Memory & Performance
, let After Effects use more RAM.
If After Effects feels sluggish
Option to clean up old conformed media and database entries.
Preferences > Media & Disk Cache > Clean Database & Cache
Investigate the Purge menu.
Edit > Purge >
All Memory
- Clears RAM previews and memory-resident frame dataAll Disk Cache
- Deletes all rendered previews and frame data stored on diskAll 3D Cache
- Clears temporary GPU and memory buffers used for rendering 3D layers and 3D interactions in compositionsImage Cache Memory
- Clears the portion of RAM used to hold images/frames only
💡 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 upload these large temporary files in the background quickly, try exporting to a local directory first. Once the export is complete, you can then copy the final file into the Suite drive.