Blinking precomp bug
I'm using precomp with highlighter shape to highlight text (menu items in menu board). I also use master properties to animate gradient alphamask inside highlighter precomp to reveal or hide highlighter in the main comp.
The problem is (and has been since AE v23 I think) that at random times some highlighters are blinking in preview, and also in the final render (they show and disappear, or blink rapidly). Sometimes cleaning cache helps, but not always. Sometimes importing project into new project helps, but eventualy problem reappears. Sometimes previously disappeared highlighter suddenly appears when I change text in some text object in a same frame as a highlighter. This bug is so inconsistent I don't know how to debug it.
On my colleagues system it didn't appear, when I sent project for him to check. But I have had this issue on Intel iMac 2020, and also now on MacBookPro M3 Max so it shouldn't be hardware related.
I have enabled logging today, and in the log file I see alot of lines like this:
Ticks = 18082924 <1309607> <prefetch> <5> RequestPrefetchedFrame frame not in async list!
Ticks = 18083096 <1309599> <prefetch> <5> RequestPrefetchedFrame frame not in async list!
Ticks = 18083101 <1309599> <prefetch> <5> RequestPrefetchedFrame frame not in async list!
Ticks = 18083278 <1309605> <prefetch> <5> RequestPrefetchedFrame frame not in async list!
Ticks = 18083541 <1309609> <prefetch> <5> RequestPrefetchedFrame frame not in async list!
I think it is cache related, but even with cleared cache it is still there.
If this problem would affect just one video file I wouldn't bother, but it is ongoing project, and there are tons of video files I have to maintain, and at least 1 of 4 has this issue and the only forkaroung is to render multiple times (cleaning caches, etc.) till comp renders fine..
