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coolguy2020
Inspiring
February 5, 2024
Question

Render Graph stack overflow - composition gets inserted into itself

  • February 5, 2024
  • 4 replies
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I'm working in AE Team Projects and I noticed few times already that after reopening a team project I worked on (with no problem whatsoever) I get an error like this:

(it says "After Effects error: Render Graph stack overflow -- composition too complex. ( 78 :: 6)").

 

I can't preview my timeline and restarting etc doesn't help. When I convert the whole Team Project to regular project, then I finally know what is the cause of the problem because the error message changes to this:

("After Effects error: Composition 'sh010 v01' is nested in itself and cannot be rendered.")
It turns out that in fact a composition named 'sh010 v01' is nested in itself, however I never even tried to do something like that (not to mention that AE doesn't allow to do this). I think that at some point Team Project makes some mistake when loading or saving the project and puts random composition in itself but its just my guess.

When I delete a layer with the sh010 v01 comp from that comp, the preview starts working again however I still randomly I get errors where the preview doesn't update when making changes in the timeline / layers. Sometimes it just ignores the changes but sometimes I get this error:

("After Effects error: strange situation [0/1]. (26 :: 82)") 

The only way around this and making sure that the project is working properly again is creating a new project and importing the buggy project into it. 

I would be really thankful for fixing this and other bugs in Team Projects that started to pop up recently. They make using Team Project kinda risky and unreliable. I appreciate the work and some recent useful updates (new Track Matte system) but I really need to be able to work in AE without worrying that the whole project gets corrupted out of nowhere. 

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4 replies

nishu_kush
Legend
March 22, 2024

Moving this thread from Bugs to Discussions for troubleshoting.

Thanks,
Nishu

coolguy2020
Inspiring
February 14, 2024

Hey, just wanted to bump up this issue. It's happening again in a new team project. 

coolguy2020
Inspiring
February 5, 2024

Its AE 2024 24.1.0 Build 78. I invited you to the project. I will also send you an instruction where you can find the faulty comp.

Udo Pawlik
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 5, 2024

Hi @coolguy2020,
Which version of AE are you running and do you mind inviting me [personal info removed by Mod.] to the troublesome Team Project or a copy of it? 

 

Best,
Udo

 

Udo Pawlik | Sr Software Product Quality Specialist | Adobe