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QuintinHS
Inspiring
Jan 8, 2023 8:13 PM UTC
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Warp Stabilizer won't initialize

I have a timelapse that I've stabilized using manual stabilizing trackers. I render it with lossless settings, then try to put it back into AE and use Warp Stabilizer to do some final stabilizing, but it won't initialize. It'll be stuck at frame 1 of x at 0% if I'm lucky. Otherwise, it gets stuck at the "Initializing" stage. I've tried the obvious and reinstalled the software, disabled multi-frame rendering, cleared all caches, and reset preferences. It's not a corrupt project because I've tried repeating this with different projects and different footage. Same issue.

Computer specs: Windows 11, 32 GB ram,  AMD Radeon 6700, my computer is super fast. Performance isn't the issue. There are no spikes in processing power or ram usage.

Suggestions?

I have projects I need to finish and I've been desperately looking for a solution for over 2 months now, Adobe customer support hasn't been useful. Sincerely appreciate the help. attached are pictures for context of what I'm doing

QuintinHS
QuintinHSCorrect answer
Inspiring
Jan 28, 2023 12:16 AM UTC

Ok... so AE versions previous to 22.5 would begin analyzing footage just by applying Warp Stabilizer with default settings (in almost all cases). Versions after 22.5 require the "Detailed Analysis" button to be checked when applying a Warp Stabilizer effect to a precomposition that has some form of stabilization done within the precomp. Otherwise, if the Detailed Analysis button isn't checked, it won't stabilize. See attached image for Warp Stabilizer settings I use.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to help with this!

15 replies

Participating Frequently
Jun 25, 2024 4:21 PM UTC

Same problem here. It happened before, worked for a while, and now broken again.

Unusable.

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Participant
Jun 15, 2024 1:04 AM UTC

Unchecking "Fast Analysis" option worked for me.

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Participant
Jan 7, 2024 4:54 AM UTC

I have the same issue, 7th of Jan 2024!

Tried everything, Warp Stabilizer doesnt work on my iPhone 15 Video footage

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alexd34197202
Participant
Jan 11, 2024 10:08 PM UTC

Same Issue here it freezes at initailizing or X amount of time through the clip

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Participant
Jan 23, 2024 9:42 PM UTC

same thing here, any solutions?

 

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QuintinHS
QuintinHSAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
Jan 28, 2023 12:16 AM UTC

Ok... so AE versions previous to 22.5 would begin analyzing footage just by applying Warp Stabilizer with default settings (in almost all cases). Versions after 22.5 require the "Detailed Analysis" button to be checked when applying a Warp Stabilizer effect to a precomposition that has some form of stabilization done within the precomp. Otherwise, if the Detailed Analysis button isn't checked, it won't stabilize. See attached image for Warp Stabilizer settings I use.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to help with this!

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Participant
Sep 22, 2023 2:39 PM UTC
  • I'm experiencing the same problem, except that no matter what settings I use, no matter the clip, it will not initialize and then say it has timed out. Super frustrated as it used to work perfectly. Looked through old threads and tried everything. Nothing has worked. 
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Participating Frequently
Nov 3, 2023 10:48 AM UTC

Same here with a project that worked on Version 23, now it is stuck on Initializing... in Version 24 after updating. 😞

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Mylenium
Legend
Jan 8, 2023 9:18 PM UTC

That probably doesn't make a lot of sense workflow wise. Easily possible that the stabilizer is unable to detect any actual motion patterns that fit it's algorithm and gets in a death spiral trying to do so. Otherwise I have no idea beyond what we already told you in your other posts, unfortunately. The only way to even check if this isn't your computer would be to tryn another system...

 

Mylenium 

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QuintinHS
QuintinHSAuthor
Inspiring
Jan 8, 2023 9:33 PM UTC

Yeah, it's not a great workflow but the alternative was to use a precomposition and then use Warp Stabilizer which was just fine workflow-wise. Fine until it quit working

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