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May 8, 2019 7:23 PM UTC
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Content Aware Fill Error: Initialization failed

Hello!

When i try to Content Aware Fill something it shows me this:

After Effects warning: Content Aware Fill Error: Initialization Failed

How I can fix this please?

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    dmitryk52
    dmitryk52Correct answer
    Participant
    Jul 4, 2019 8:04 PM UTC

    solved this by excluding cyrillic symbols from project path/name. try to rename folder/project to usual latin first

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    Participant
    Feb 3, 2026 8:07 PM UTC

    I also got this issue, in my case it was happening because of “Autokroma Influx” , this plugin takes over all the after effect encoders and results in weird importing errors. maybe the newer version of Influx doesn’t have this issue idk. 

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    Participant
    Jun 18, 2025 2:01 PM UTC

    I'm also getting this error. I've tried multiple pre-existing projects, saved both on and off the local drive, and now I get this:

    "After Effects error: file '000001' cannot be imported - files of type 'fGNP' cannot be used as sequences."

     

    When I click "OK", I get the Initialization Failed error afterwards. Doesn't matter what type of footage I'm using.

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    Known Participant
    Jun 20, 2025 12:14 AM UTC

    I have the same error. Tried getting rid of all cyrillic symbols and weird characters like "&" etc. and moved the footage and project to the internal laptop SSD, nothing helped. I get the same error as goji1986, but in my case it says: "After Effects error: file '000000' cannot be imported - files of type "" cannot be used as sequences." After I click OK, it says: "After Effects warning: Content-Aware Fill Error: Initialization Failed"
    Anybody have the same problem?

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    Known Participant
    Jun 20, 2025 2:57 AM UTC

    So I actually got it working, but I have no idea how. I clicked on the hamburger (3-lines in top corner of the Content-Aware Fill properties window and chose "Content-Awarte Fill Settings". In there I tinkered around with different settings (clicked everything on and back off and back on again) and all of a sudden it worked. These are the settings in the end (but remember: some of them were like that before and it still didn't work at first):

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    Inspiring
    Jun 12, 2024 7:57 PM UTC

    Same here in AE 24 & AE 24 Beta on Mac. Nothing works. @jenkmeister1961936 any new development in the past 5 years?

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    Jun 12, 2024 9:04 PM UTC

    Have you tried any of the above suggestions? Do you have a project you can zip up and send to us for reproducing? 

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    Inspiring
    Jun 12, 2024 9:39 PM UTC

    Yes, works from the local drive. But seriously, dear Adobe folks, large projects cannot be stored on internal hard drives only. The issue with external hard drives exists in various areas in AE and Pr. It can't be the purpose of ultra-expensive subscriptions that I can only work on my local hard drive.

     

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    Participant
    Jan 24, 2021 12:59 PM UTC

    Create a new project on another hard disk... mean in an another path with another name

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    Participant
    Nov 30, 2022 2:47 PM UTC

    I had exactly this problem too.  When I ran my project and media from an external SSD, I got the error every time.  As soon as I moved the media and my .aep project to my local drive, Content Aware Fill worked fine.

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    dmitryk52
    dmitryk52Correct answer
    Participant
    Jul 4, 2019 8:04 PM UTC

    solved this by excluding cyrillic symbols from project path/name. try to rename folder/project to usual latin first

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    artema50335318
    Participant
    Jun 21, 2019 10:25 PM UTC

    Have you solved this problem?

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    jenkmeister1961936
    Adobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    May 17, 2019 5:18 PM UTC

    Would you be able to upload the AEP project file somewhere that we can download it? Unfortunately the error message (which we need to make better) doesn't let you or us know what is causing the initialization failure.

    Thanks

    Sean

    AE Eng Manager

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