Residual frames in After Effects composition won’t go away

[Michael Szalapski]

Also, what exact version number of AE are you using (down to the last decimal point)?

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[Matteo Vegetti]

I haven’t tried running CC cleaner after uninstall… I’ll try that as a last resort as soon as I’ll have a spare half an hour and keep you posted.

[Matteo Vegetti]

I’m on AE CC and no, purging the cache didn’t work!

[Matteo Vegetti]

I’m on CC 12.2.1.5 but I had the same problem before this update.

[Walter Soyka]

[Matteo Vegetti] “I’m on AE CC and no, purging the cache didn’t work!”

Understood, but did you also try disabling the cache and then purging both the disk cache and RAM before re-enabling it as I suggested?

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[Matteo Vegetti]

Tried that too, although you suggested it for CS6…

[Walter Soyka]

Sorry I was unclear.

This is not a solution, but a troubleshooting step. If you change the resolution or framerate of the comp with the ghost thumbnail, does it persist?

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[Matteo Vegetti]

No worries and thanks again for helping!
Well, if I change the frame rate nothing happens BUT changing the resolution gets rid of the ghost image. Returning to the original size though brings back the spurious frame.

[Walter Soyka]

[Matteo Vegetti] “Well, if I change the frame rate nothing happens BUT changing the resolution gets rid of the ghost image. Returning to the original size though brings back the spurious frame.”

This still sounds very much like a cache issue to me.

What if you close Ae and manually delete the entire Ae cache folder?

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[Matteo Vegetti]

No chance… didn’t work.
Cache had been my first thought as well but whatever I tried it didn’t work.
I’ll try to uninstall and run CC cleaner and keep you posted.