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ANTHONY5FC3
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January 13, 2021
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AE Warning: All target frames are blank. The Content-Aware Fill layer generation has been aborted

  • January 13, 2021
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Hi, I’m new to this support community and new to After Effects so I hope someone can help me with this problem. The version of AE I have is v17.5.1 (Build 47). I’m using Premiere to assemble some old 8mm film footage I had transferred to mp4 files and I was hoping I could use AE Content-Aware Fill to get rid of some hairs in the film gate, which are pretty much static. I have looked at a lot of how-to videos but am stuck at the “Generate Fill layer” stage where I am getting the error message “AE Warning: All target frames are blank. The Content-Aware Fill layer generation has been aborted.” FYI, I’m not using Dynamic link but importing the files separately into AE as a stand-alone project. I’ve attached some screen shots that I hope will explain the situation better. I should underline that I'm totally new at this and am aware that it's probably something I'm not doing, or doing wrong. Hope someone can help, thanks so much.

    Correct answer ANTHONY5FC3

    Thanks to Adobe tech support, this problem has been solved. The support engineer quit the application, trashed the preferences folder(s) and relaunched. Et voila, problem waas gone and has not reaappeared! He said that it waas probably due to corrupt preference files. Thanks Adobe.

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    sinem_aydin
    Participant
    April 14, 2023

    Hi, Actually you don't need to delete the preferences files. Just change the Mask to subtract and done 🙂

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      Media Crew
      Participant
      November 12, 2024

      Thanks you so much !!!

       

      DryreL
      DryreL
      Known Participant
      March 12, 2023

      I had same problem. Solution is to adjust your "work area" correctly in the timeline. Work area must contain video duration. It can be entire or partial. Make sure work area is not outside of the video layer duration. Or just change it to Entire Duration.

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      ANTHONY5FC3AuthorCorrect answer
      Participant
      January 18, 2021

      Thanks to Adobe tech support, this problem has been solved. The support engineer quit the application, trashed the preferences folder(s) and relaunched. Et voila, problem waas gone and has not reaappeared! He said that it waas probably due to corrupt preference files. Thanks Adobe.

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      loganfifty
      Participant
      December 8, 2021

      I'm having the same problem but I can't find any Preferences folder. Where would this folder be located?

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      ANTHONY5FC3Author
      Participant
      December 8, 2021

      Hi there,

      Yes, that was way back in January with the help of Tech support and I can't remember how he did it. Sorry, I'm not a journeyman user of Premiere and/or content aware fill but when the problem has reoccurred, I've found that rigidly adhering to the procedure seems to set things right. As I recall, it's all about masking, looking at the right layer, and selecting subtract. I found this video from Justin Odisho quite helpful. Good luck!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL0ZTEhH0Ew 

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