Residual frames in After Effects composition won’t go away

[Joseph W. bourke]

The only other thing I can think of is updating the driver for your video card. That’s about the only other place where an image could sit in a buffer and maybe not get erased.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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[Matt Davis]

Shot in the dark here…since you’ve tried the obvious things…could you try copying all of the layers into a new comp? Don’t pre-compose them. Straight up copy and paste into a brand new comp.

Shouldn’t make a difference, the After Effects equivalent of unplugging and then plugging it back in, but who knows?

That’s all I have to add, sorry. Maybe dance counter-clockwise around the computer and sprinkle salt on the case… lol

Good luck.

[Chris Brett]

Hi – had the same once …..

– seem to remember I copied every layer I needed into a new composition …

… cant quite remember all the details — basically I built another project file and it went away…..

—- sorry this is a bit vague but am pretty sure thats how I solved it …

———————————— chris —

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[Michael Szalapski]

Another shot in the dark: Any chance you have another copy of the letters layer that you don’t see because they have the “shy” switch turned on?

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[Matteo Vegetti]

Thanks for all the advice but none of this really worked (haven’t tried the counterclockwise dance yet though!).
Updating driver, changing to new comp, turning off shy flag didn’t help…

I somewhat think the issue is related to dynamic linking but I cannot figure out how.

Matteo

[Michael Szalapski]

Revealing all the shy layers didn’t make any text layers appear in the timeline? Darn, I was hoping that was it!

Try importing that project into a new project.

If that still doesn’t work, do you have another computer with AE that you could open that project on? Alternatively, could you pass your project file onto one of us to look at?

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[Chris Brett]

– hi again ….

– probably you tried this anyway – but if I remember correctly I actually copied only the layers needed and pasted them into a new comp ——

————– I say this because if you open the project in a new comp I assume it will also open the problem as which is presumably cunningly tucked away somewhere……..

—————— chris —-

[Matteo Vegetti]

So, copying just the layers in a new comp didn’t work, as well as importing the comp into a new project.
Even if I try to open a completely new project this is what I get: aargh
Can you see the little $%&”!! rosengarten image in the top left comp thumbnail?

BUT opening the project on another computer won’t show this problem… (or the text going one frame further after its end)

[Michael Szalapski]

That’s…that’s weird.

If you uninstall, run the CC Cleaner, then reinstall and it’s still there, I’m saying your machine is haunted.

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[Walter Soyka]

I have found that sometimes a stubborn frame like this can persist if its both in the RAM cache and the disk cache. Emptying the disk cache isn’t enough, because if it’s still in RAM, the bad frame can get written back to disk right after you clear it.

Are you on Ae CC? If so, try Edit > Purge > All memory and disk cache.

If you’re on CS6, or if you tried the above and didnt’ work, try this:

In Preferences > Media & Disk Cache, first disable the disk cache (which prevents new frames from being written to it), then empty the disk cache.

Edit > Purge > All memory

Preferences > Media & Disk Cache > re-enable disk cache.

Walter Soyka
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