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Strange Situation Error?
I can’t open an After Effects file. I opened the Project window and all the sudden I can’t get in. Was working on it through Dynamic Link with Premiere.
When I try to open the file it just says this:
After Effects error: strange situation [0/-939524096]
( 26 ::139 )
I tried clearing the disk cache. I also tried importing the contents into a new file. No luck.
The odd thing is that everything still plays fine in Premiere through Dynamic Link. But I can’t open After Effects any more to edit the animation further.
For some reason my latest auto-save is quite a while back, too. I guess I should have incremented but I didn’t want to have to relink in Premiere.
Any solutions?
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I tried cleaning both of those, yeah. No luck. 🙁
I’m using the latest version. CC 2014. It just updated a little while ago. I wonder if it’s a glitch with the new version. I can’t go back on this project now, though.
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Not really a solution, but a hacky semi-workaround…
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
1) Load the project into a new project using the “Load Multiple Files” option.
2) Open the folder with the compositions.
3) Load (most of) the needed compositions.
4) Close the folder and never look at it again.
5) Save the project with a new name.
What I’m realizing is that the problem is somewhere in the Project Window. There is a file at the bottom of it that, if it even appears on screen (you don’t have to load the comp, just SEE it in the Project Window) we get the Strange Situation and there is no going back.
For me, thankfully the file in question is at the bottom of the list. So I can load most of what I need without looking at it and then close the thing up.
If there were some way to load the project expressly without the project window open, I could probably get everything, but I haven’t figured out how to do that.
I’m not sure what caused the problem, but I THINK it has something to do with conversions from older versions of AE. The file in question was made with a previous version of AE and was converted.
Perhaps this, along with going through Dynamic Link, is causing some kind of problem. I’m not sure.
By the way, loading it on a-coworker’s computer does the same thing.
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Just got this with a file that was created in CC2014. The only difference was that I’d copied & pasted in a control null from another open instance of AE, which had initially pasted into my comp as a black solid called “Placeholder”. I’d been adding expressions using sourceRectAtTime() to control the size of a shape layer based on the text layer above it. Then suddenly, “Strange situation”. In my project window are two pieces of footage, the Solids folder and “Placeholder” italicised as if it can’t find it. None of the rest of the footage in the project is showing up, so it’s presumably this damn placeholder solid that’s causing the problem.
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