Beyond After Effects itself, make sure third-party plug-ins and system drivers (in particular, for the GPU) are up to date.

If you’re stubbornly holding on to that copy of After Effects CS6, that’s that. With a Creative Cloud subscription, updates are waiting in the menu bar. Update the system, software, drivers, and plug-ins There’s even one official Adobe recommendation I disagree with (see number 7). Most of them matter a lot less than just a few presented here. We’ll focus on the essentials that will get your preview renders, and final output moving faster so you can finish earlier.

Let’s make After Effects faster by making sure your system itself is optimized, and by eliminating common slowdowns in a given project.Īdobe provides thorough information on this topic, but there are way more than 12 steps for recovery of speed on that page. Maybe you have the sense that After Effects could be… speedier.