Clifford Sonnentag
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There is a major bug in AME that causes encoding to show “Media Offline” messages when using After Effects linked footage in a premiere timeline. I’ve tested this on about 5 systems running in different environments. I’ve reported this bug multiple times. This bug has been around for 6+ months. This bug is causing very bad production problems for our team.
The bug is simply that AE clips imported into Premiere Pro via Dynamic Link export as “Media Offline” in Adobe Media Encoder.
There are a few workarounds I have found, some are ridiculous:
- Uncheck “Import sequences nativley” in AME preferences (Add hours to render time)
- Clear media cache in AE, PP, AME, then restart your computer.
- Render and replace AE clips in PP timeline. (lose all dynamic text content from AE)
- Best workaround for now is to open the task manager and close AfterFX.exe and possibly Adobe QT32 Server.exe, if that doesn’t work you need to close all adobe apps then close them in task manager also. Then reopen and resume work.
The steps to reproduce the bug:
Open AE, PP, and AME
Make a composition in AE
Drag comp to Premiere (Dynamic Link)
Use that comp in a timeline.
Ctrl-M (Export) to AME queue (This renders okay)
In AE, duplicate the comp previously made
Drag that new comp to Premiere (Dynamic Link)
Replace that new comp in place of the old comp in the previously created timeline.
Ctrl-M (Export) to AME queue (This renders “Media Offline”) -
thank you, it works, but it breaks down when I have to do all these workarounds to fix the looping animations that drop frames.
with 4 keyframes it breaks down using these:
t = time%key(2).time;
if (index%2)
t
else
key(2).time - t
loopOut("cycle",2);
loopOut("cycle",2);
t = time%key(2).time;
if (index%2)
t
else
key(2).time - t
I’ll have to revisit to understand what is going on because my brain is jello from figuring out what is going on with Adobe a Loop***()
Thank you for all of your help Dan, I see you are quite the genius in this forum.
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Adobe needs to make this better and easier,
I’m so stuck on this one too. I have plenty of looping comps working, but this one I made with shapes is stuck. No matter what I do the thing will not stop glitching off the last frame.
I’ve tried
loopOut("cycle",0)
loopOut("cycle",1)
with extra keyframes at the end in both the comp and in the comps time remap.I’ve tried extending shortening, changing the clip duration, using this code:
loopSec = framesToTime(timeToFrames(thisComp.duration)+1);
linear(time,0,loopSec, key(1), key(2))No matter what I do Adobe stabs me with a knife, I want to throw my computer out this 37 floor window right now.
Thanks for the help Dan I found your other post addressing a work-around to what I would consider a bug in Adobe’s After Effects.
- As I recall, you can avoid the last frame glitch by (once you turn on time remapping) adding a keyframe one frame before the last keyframe, and setting the value of the last keyframe to zero.
Dan
ref: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/22953
Now this thing won’t
loopOutDuration("cycle",2);
without going nutz when it loops because of the last keyframe glitch fix mentioned above. ARGGGGGGGGGG OMG why is something so simple made to be soooooooooooo dificult. Can anyone please tell me what i am doing wrong and how to fix this, I’ve lost about 2 days on this stupid loop issue over the course of this project. It has a mind of its own. It just does what it wants when it wants to.had to do a workaround with a keyframe loop. created a keyframe at 2 seconds in after doing the other workaround. So 2 workarounds later and this code it finally works:
loopOut("cycle",2);Adobe ..|.
- As I recall, you can avoid the last frame glitch by (once you turn on time remapping) adding a keyframe one frame before the last keyframe, and setting the value of the last keyframe to zero.
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tried this too:
if ((index % 2) === 1) {
loopOut(“cycle”,0);
linear(time, 0, 6, key(1), key(2));
}
else {
loopOut(“cycle”,0);
linear(time, 0, 6, key(2), key(1));
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Re installed the system. Went right back to extremely bad performance in redraw and basic program usage in Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects; Speedgrade is the worst of all. Noticed a significant decrease in performance when installing the Intel and Marvel Controller drivers. Things as simple as changing the exposure are hanging the redraw long enough to call it laggy.
Did anyone else have similar hardware issues with the Asus Z9pe-d8 ws and quadro cards and find a solution?
take a look at a video showing the lag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtB7GV6oe78Thanks
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Does C-100 have an import utility?
Sony uses a content management utility that renames the files to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.M2ts and strips the multi-folder structure when imported. All footage is in one folder after import to move where needed. Only time you might have duplicates is with multi-camera shoots and even then it is a rare problem.
Let me know if Canon C-100 has something like this. If it doesn’t I could see how the workflow would be broken or at least cracked.
Thanks,
Cliff
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I’m still having the trouble. Is there something else i could be missing? I also have redraw issues in light room 4 with resizing of certain tools like the brush. I feel there is some hardware limitation here. Like the fact Quadro 5000 is Gen2 and I have it in a Backward compatible Gen3 PCI slot?? Or some sort of problems with my windows installation because I have my swap on a separate drive?
It pains me to think this system I put so much time into has problems with something so simple as mouse overlay speed issues.
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I agree needs a modifier that allows left-right scrolling. Just noticed this is a few years old. Anyone found a fix? This is a top search from google, would be beneficial to put a link to a solution here if there is one now.
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I can’t wait.. and THANK YOU
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Thanks Dan!
I noticed you are posting a lot of useful answers that I have used already. Have any recommendations for books or learning resources?
Cliff