After Effects GPU‑Accelerated Renderer and Adobe Media Encoder Dynamic Link: Memory Leak Persistence?
The GPU‑accelerated renderer in After Effects received a fix in version 23.5.0 that releases texture buffers per frame, eliminating the steady memory growth seen during RAM preview with effects such as Twixtor or Element 3D. When the same composition is sent to Adobe Media Encoder via Dynamic Link for background rendering, users report that the memory leak c