I've been working on a project for quite some time now, and I have to keep coming back to this one shot that I need to be rotoscoped. THis is my 6th attempt to get the rotoscope to work but every time I try to freeze it, After Effects just crashes and I lose all the progress from the last hour or so that it takes to rotoscope the shot. Both my OS is up to date, along with After Effects. Please Help!
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Crash
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Error or problem
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Freeze or hang
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Performance
Impossible to say anything. You need to be much more precise and provide details about exact project settings, the footage you are working on, your system, your cache settings and of course the RB settings itself. If it happens on every project the harsh truth likely is that something is wrong with your system or your footage, but based on such vague descriptions of course nobody can figure that out.
My project settings are the default ones when creating a project from Premiere Pro dynamic link. The footage is .mp4, 30fps and around 8 seconds long. I haven't changed any of the rotoscope settings as I didn't even know this was possible. I've cleared my cache many times whilst trying to troubleshoot the problem and restarted, still to no avail. My computer specs are as follows:
The settings for the project are default settings applied when installing aftereffects.
The program is not actually 'crashing' per-say however becoming entirely unresponsive, the framecount / # frames getting frozen remains at 1/# and doesn't update even tho the slider can be seen getting frames frozen. Periodically the program updates to say the freezing window is no longer responding then stops however is still unresponsive and won't update from 1/# frozen framecount.
My footage is .mp4 5 minute video. My graphics card: RTX 2080 ti Intel processor 16gb ram Task manager showing 77% memory used.
I have no other programs/tasks, excepy chrome browser.
Check your system crash logs. It's quite likely that the AI-based functions of RB 2.0 crash due to compatibility issues with your graphics hardware and/ or the storage driver crashes when the freeze produces tons of cache data. These are the most common causes for these sorts of issues. also as a test at the very least switch RB to the lagacy 1.0 version. If that works, you can at least be sure that it realyl boils down to specific stuff in 2.0.
That still didn't fix it. It might be worth noting that I created the project through premiere pro, and it currently refuses to work within premiere as well. Whenever I try to play the file through dynamic link within premiere, it simply doesn't work. It isn't until after I have to quit premiere that I get a crash alert. Do you know of any ways to fix this?
.mp4 h264 and h265 files (or any long-GOP codec) are hard to work with, as the computer needs to decompres a series of frames to get to work on the one frame you select, even on heavy speced systems. If your are experiencing issues with h264 and/or h265 footage it is always wise to transcode these to an iframe codec, like ProRes, DNxHD or Cineform. I always transcode to ProRes LT with .mp4 footage that is acting up. (it does not matter if you work on PC or Mac). The file size will be bigger, but compter can access the frame directly.
I've downgraded to one version and now the rotoscope is fine. In terms of performance, every frame is like 300% faster at least, there's no freezing, hangups or lagging, everything propagates and the window updates frames and the stop-freeze button accepts input throughout the propagation. The difference is night & day.
I would love to do that, but the only problem is then my dynamic link won't work because the two applications (After Effects and Premiere) are on two different versions.
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