“Unable to obtain dynamiclink project”

[Jeremy Garchow]

This project was started in Ae 2020. It worked and then it didn’t.

Opened the same project in Ae 2019 and it works.

Hmm.

[Chaz Chester]

Pretty sure this is a problem with 2020. I’ve been getting a similar error, inconsistently, when using the Warp Stabilizer.

[David Patterson]

I am getting an “unable to obtain dynamiclink project” error when I try to reapply Warp Stabilizer to a clip that had to be extended in length.

As Dynamic Link has caused problems for me in the past, my workflow for the past 3+ years is to copy/paste footage from Premiere Pro into a new After Effects timeline, and render a ProRes file. This has worked flawlessly for me, and no need to mess with Dynamic Link once I had the files in AE.

Today, I opened a project that contained some previously warp stabilized clips, one of which had to be extended in length. So, naturally I had to re-analyize that clip and re-stabilize it. However, now I’m getting the dreaded “unable to obtain dynamiclink project” error message…..but there IS NO DYNAMIC LINK PROJECT as I didn’t create one. What’s frustrating is that I tried replacing the clip, and reapplying warp stabilizer, but I still get the same error message. So now I am unable to use my project.

I have tried importing the files into a new project, but no luck. I copied and pasted the existing files into a new project, but again, no luck.

BTW, I am using the same versions of AE and PP, as you can’t copy and paste between them.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, to avoid completely rebuild my complex AE project.

[Chaz Chester]

What version of After Effects are you on? I stopped getting the error at some point (not sure exactly how/when), and I think it was an update that fixed it.

[David Patterson]

I’m using version 17.0.6 After Effects.

I don’t dare update this and Premiere Pro as I’m in the middle of multiple projects.