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TriasAD
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April 8, 2014
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After Effects, Track camera unable to obtain dynamic link server connection

  • April 8, 2014
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This has been hit and miss. I am now consistenly getting a dynamic link server connection trying to use Track camera in After Effects.

64GB RAN

Windows 7 proffesional

i7 processor

NVIDIA GEFORCE TITAN

I have enabled all the recommended programs through my firewall. I see the dynamiclink server is running in my task manager, I have closed all other programs, no antivirus, I have restarted my computer, no luck with this.

Also to add additional information:

It seems that when I try to do replace with After Effects composition in Premiere Pro I am getting error: The importer reported a generic error

and also when I first launch After effects I am getting a failure to load a few plugins from CineForm including importer

    Correct answer Rick Gerard

    Open up Preferences (Alt/Option + Ctrl/Cmnd +; ) and go to Memory. Set Ram for other applications to 8GB if you have 16 installed. If you have less than 16, then go as high as you can so that Dynamic Link has some resources to use. If you have to cut down on the available ram for AE you'll just have to wait for Camera Tracker to finish up and switch back to at least 8 for AE so you can continue to work efficiently. 

     

    I haven't found a system that this will not work on. Dynamic Link just doesn't have enough memory to open up. It's that simple.

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    Szalam
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    SzalamCommunity Expert
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    April 8, 2014

    What version of AE are you using? (And I don't mean "CS6" or "CC", I mean "12.2.1" or "11.0.4")

    Try uninstalling any/all software from GoPro to get rid of that CineForm message (and then reinstall it later on if you use the Cineform codec or GoPro footage).

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    TriasADAuthor
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    April 8, 2014

    Uninstalled and installed again, but no luck, it worked randomly (as it appears) . No idea

    From what I can see, this problem exists for quite a while and it clearly is not only down to firewall, I would have thought Adobe would have dealed with it.

    Sad, when you need to do something but the computer "says no"

      Szalam
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      SzalamCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 8, 2014

      You still haven't answered my first question.

      Also, what did you uninstall and install?

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