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haninea45451944
haninea45451944
Participant
September 21, 2020
Question

After Effects 2020 (17.1.4) Hangs On "Initializing MeidaCore" With Dynamic Link Enabled

  • September 21, 2020
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Hello Everyone!

 

Recently have run into an issue where AE 2020 launches super slow when Dynamic Link is enabled.

I am not opening a project file but AE will open ~20 DynamicLinkManager processes.

 

If I rename "dynamiclinkmanager.exe" AE opens just fine and there is no issue.

 

I have done the following:

-Reinstalled AE (multiple times)

-Updated Graphics Drivers

-Reinstalled the entire CC Suite

-Deleted Prefences

-Deleted the "%appdata%\Adobe" folder

 

My system Specs are:

-Ryzen 3950x

-64GB Ram

-Nvidia 2070 Super

-1TB SSD

 

I haven't had a problem with AE until this weekend. Specifically after I imported a Illustrator file into AE and then all the problems started.

The program never seems to fully crash as well, it just hangs and windows brings up its error reporter, so I never get any crash logs and I never get a chance to report the crash from the Adobe Crash Reporter.

 

The picture taken is from a fresh install of AE.

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5 replies

ToolfarmJP
Community Expert
ToolfarmJPCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 16, 2020

Would you run AfterFX.exe and dynamiclinkmanager.exe as Run as Administrator (choose *.exe and right-click)?

nishu_kush
nishu_kush
Legend
September 22, 2020

Hi haninea45451944,

 

Sorry for your issue.

Did any of the suggestions from experts help? If not, try removing the third-party plug-ins and see if that helps.

Here's how to you can remove the plug-ins:

  1. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore
  2. Remove all the files and folders except dummy.txt.
  3. Launch After Effects.

Let us know if it helps.

 

Thanks,

Nishu

stevenw65232744
stevenw65232744
Participant
October 16, 2020

Hi, 

 

I did all the changes and removed the third party plugins. But this had no effect. 

 

Thanks for your help

 

 

Szalam
Community Expert
SzalamCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 21, 2020

See this page to see if any of the discussion there is helpful.

Also, try using the public beta to see if it behaves itself better. 

R
Community Expert
Rick GerardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 21, 2020

Try opening up Preferences and setting the available memory for other apps to a multiple of 4GB. Dynamic-link does not seem to behave well when the memory for AE or other apps is set to an odd number.

haninea45451944
haninea45451944Author
Participant
September 21, 2020

Here is a Picture of the process list:

 

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