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lewinm9187868
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April 21, 2020
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After Effects 2020 unable to obtain dynamiclink project

  • April 21, 2020
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Hello,

when i try to 3D Camera Track my footage, it says that AfterEffects is unable to obtain the dynamiclink proj.

There is no dynamic link project. The only Adobe software installed is AfterEffects (and Creative Cloud)

 

This makes no sense to me.

Btw: CreativeCloud is unable to connect to my Internet (i dont know why)

I already checked my firewall settings.

Maybe thats important for fixing.

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    Correct answer Kristian Capuliak

    SOLUTION FOR ME:

    Hey guys, so I was having the same problem, with 3d camera tracker.

    And solution for me was removing a plugin that was causing the issue - it was "OCFX.plugin" - GoPro FX Reframe plugin.

    Make sure you remove and try one by one plugins from following directory:
    /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore

    After removing the GoPro plugin, AE is back to normal, so it seems that some plugins interfere with AE native plugins - which is the developer problem, not the Adobe.

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    Kristian CapuliakCorrect answer
    Participating Frequently
    January 1, 2024

    SOLUTION FOR ME:

    Hey guys, so I was having the same problem, with 3d camera tracker.

    And solution for me was removing a plugin that was causing the issue - it was "OCFX.plugin" - GoPro FX Reframe plugin.

    Make sure you remove and try one by one plugins from following directory:
    /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore

    After removing the GoPro plugin, AE is back to normal, so it seems that some plugins interfere with AE native plugins - which is the developer problem, not the Adobe.

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      GinkgoW
      Participant
      June 1, 2022

      Same issue in 2022. For me camera tracking works one time after restarting the computer, then I'm unable to do it again. So it's - finish up a comp, restart, repeat. For every mistake I make I need to restart. Please fix this bug 

        Daniel.S.
        Daniel.S.
        Participant
        June 17, 2022

        Same here! Found that there is an AE-process in Task Manager that is not ending if quitting AE . Manually ending the process is helping. Someone mentioned somewhere that the SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading) in BIOS may be the source of this problem, but i have not tried deactivating this.

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        John Karner
        Participant
        April 21, 2023

        A year later and still happening, wth adobe.

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        Rocketbottle
        Inspiring
        November 6, 2021

        I can't believe it. AE 2022 version 22.0.0 and still the same error!

         

        Not happy at all 😠

         

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        stevent65241524
        Participating Frequently
        November 10, 2021

        Unbelievable isn't it

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        olneya82401876
        Participant
        July 16, 2021

        I fixed mine and it turned out to be somehow related to old plug-ins. I reinstalled After Effects 2021 without transferring any of my old plugins and then brought them over one by one until the problem started. In this case, it was an old version of RetroDither and I used aescripts installer app to install only the ones that were compatible with 2021. 

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          moises5C2A
          Participant
          June 1, 2021

          Same problem 1 year later with AE version 18.2.0  any solution Adobe? 

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            Kalina Bermúdez Torres
            Participant
            April 7, 2021

            Same problem, is there a solution?

             

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            Gregory5FCF
            Participating Frequently
            April 4, 2021

            2021 and the issue is still here and Adobe has no fix. Just spend a hour to remote connect with Adobe and still no resolution. What are we paying for?

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              paulm65075959
              Participating Frequently
              April 1, 2021

              Same issue still using AE 18.0.0 on a brand new iMac. This thread has been up for more than a year, with more than a dozen people saying that it's a problem, and it's unfathomable that Adobe hasn't addressed this issue. I spend more time trying to figure out why my Adobe products aren't working than actually using them. 

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                stevent65241524
                Participating Frequently
                April 2, 2021

                I've been in the middle of a Covid delayed project since I last complained about this and to be honest just haven't bothered upgrading mid project. So it's very annoying to hear these issues are still occuring. I have to start a new project just to track a camera then collect that comp to load back into the original project. AE offers a lot but fails in so many other ways. I also have an ongoing issue that when it crashes (and we all know it likes to do that with plug ins) I just have to reboot the iMac immediately as AE takes forever to reload, pausing at Initialising MediaCore and then it's extremely unstable. Sometimes it's reboot after reboot.

                But not being able to track a camera in an existing project is complete BS and I'm surprised it's still going on.

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                  olneya82401876
                  Participant
                  June 1, 2022

                  I am telling you as much as it seems like it wouldn't matter. It was old, compatible plug-ins and my issue got fixed for good. 

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                  davidp158
                  Known Participant
                  December 22, 2020

                  I have a slightly differnt situation, but the same "unable to obtain dynamiclink project" error.

                  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, naturatly 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. 

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

                  fredfx1957
                  fredfx1957
                  Known Participant
                  December 22, 2020

                  Here's what I did. 

                  I had ONE comp in my project that was breaking it. SO.....I made a copy of the project and deleted comps one by one to see which one was breaking it. And I found the culprit....I think this happens especially when you import legacy projects. 

                  That way you might not have to rebuild the whole thing, just one of the comps. Give that a try.

                   

                  And yes, my problem stemmed from a project template that I'd been using for a really long time. So I only had to rebuild one tiny comp. 

                   

                  Good luck brother! 

                  Mac Pro (2019) 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W 96 GB 2933 MHz DDR4 AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB
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                    stevent65241524
                    Participating Frequently
                    September 9, 2020

                    The new project work around is a joke... This really needs to be addressed immediately.

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