Hey guy,
I just wanted to make a post about a major bug in Mac OS that breaks After Effects on the new M2 Ultra Mac Studio! I found out about it last week when I tried to work in afx for the first time on my new machine - and couldn't for the love of god get a smooth 25fps playback out of the viewport!
I spent many hours uninstalling/reinstalling the whole adobe suite, searching the Internet, until I found THIS THREAD over at the Adobe forums.
It turns out, that if you attach two displays to the mac studio, after effects won't play anything back smoothly. Everything looks like it has a posterize time effect on it, with dropped frames etc.
Funny thing is, if you try to screen record it, it runs smoothly.
If you disconnect one display, it also immediately play back as intended.
I contacted my contact at Adobe who confirmed to me in an email that they are aware of this issue and in touch with Apple to resolve it, since it is a Mac OS bug that is causing this. He also then posted on the forum a workaround that makes it at least usable for the time being.
Crazy right?? It's not like a fringe use case, wanting to use after effects on this machine with dual monitors.. Very bad from apple to overlook this. I wanted to post this here in case someone else runs into the same issue.
The solution that they are offering, and which worked for me too, was turning on separate spaces for each screen in system preferences.
I just wanted to make a post about a major bug in Mac OS that breaks After Effects on the new M2 Ultra Mac Studio! I found out about it last week when I tried to work in afx for the first time on my new machine - and couldn't for the love of god get a smooth 25fps playback out of the viewport!
I spent many hours uninstalling/reinstalling the whole adobe suite, searching the Internet, until I found THIS THREAD over at the Adobe forums.
It turns out, that if you attach two displays to the mac studio, after effects won't play anything back smoothly. Everything looks like it has a posterize time effect on it, with dropped frames etc.
Funny thing is, if you try to screen record it, it runs smoothly.
If you disconnect one display, it also immediately play back as intended.
I contacted my contact at Adobe who confirmed to me in an email that they are aware of this issue and in touch with Apple to resolve it, since it is a Mac OS bug that is causing this. He also then posted on the forum a workaround that makes it at least usable for the time being.
Crazy right?? It's not like a fringe use case, wanting to use after effects on this machine with dual monitors.. Very bad from apple to overlook this. I wanted to post this here in case someone else runs into the same issue.
The solution that they are offering, and which worked for me too, was turning on separate spaces for each screen in system preferences.
