From: "Jim Curtis" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Subject: Re: [AE] Constant hangs when switching between apps
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:11:09 -0600
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I don=E2=80=99t know if this is related on Mac, but I occasionally run =
into occurrences where I can=E2=80=99t switch to Pr from Ae (or vice =
versa) without hiding Ae, and then clicking on the Pr workspace.  Since =
this behavior comes and goes, I chalk it up to some interaction with the =
OS.  It=E2=80=99s happened on and off over years, so that includes =
various Adobe revs and OSX versions.

And a thing I=E2=80=99m starting to HATE about Ae and Pr is how they =
switch themselves to the foreground app when they =E2=80=9Cwant to.=E2=80=9D=
  A prime example is launching one of them, and then working on an =
email, and in the middle of writing something, the open screen appears =
on Ae and kills my creative writing mojo.  Another is that I=E2=80=99ll =
be working in Pr and the Ae Auto-Save thermometer appears.  Or, that =
I=E2=80=99ll be exporting in Pr, and I can=E2=80=99t get the progress =
bar to go to the background when I switch to a browser or email app.

I use Render Garden. It gives us the option of having a Render Complete =
message take the foreground.  Unless we choose it, it minds its own =
business.  I like that.  Be like that, Adobe.


> On Nov 12, 2018, at 6:16 AM, Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> =
wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I=E2=80=99ve decided to be much more pro-active about reporting bugs =
and problems with AE.  However when I have a problem, part of me is =
always wondering if it=E2=80=99s like that for everyone else too=E2=80=A6
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> The biggest problem in our office - this affects everyone using AE - =
is the way After Effects briefly hangs when we switch between apps and =
then back again.  I=E2=80=99ve mentioned this before on here but I =
haven=E2=80=99t really followed it up.  But it's always there, always a =
problem, and it affects me and everyone I work with.  We are working on =
Windows machines (currently CC 2018) and just changing to another app =
and then back again always causes a brief hang.  Always.  Even something =
like using the calculator or checking emails is a problem.
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> I had reported this with CC 2017 (it was much, much more severe) and =
deduced that it was caused by the Importer JPEG module, and I could =
=E2=80=9Csolve=E2=80=9D the problem by manually specifying the older =
JPEG importer.  The problem with Importer JPEGs seemed to be fixed in CC =
2018, however now we have hangs for everything.  MP4s are especially =
bad.
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> It=E2=80=99s been like this for years, in some form or another, and =
generally everyone blames the server.  But it isn=E2=80=99t the server, =
it=E2=80=99s something unique to After Effects and it=E2=80=99s slowly =
driving us all insane.
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> FWIW we have tried all the preference options - turning off automatic =
footage reloading, missing frame warnings and verify files etc etc.  =
It=E2=80=99s not those options.
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> Is anyone else experiencing these constant mini-hangs every time you =
switch to another app and back again?
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> -Chris
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