Warp Stabilizer not Working or Freezing

[bscott87]

The Warp Stabilizer is getting stuck and won't continue working (although it displays the message "1 minute remaining"). I'm editing 4K video and am trying to use the Warp Stabilizer, which always worked perfectly before the latest version (18.4.0 (Build 41)). My frame rate is 29.97, which matches that in the original. I have 128GB of RAM, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4GHz Sixteen Core, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB working on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. The system is new and this is the first project I've run on it; unfortunately, I've had more frustration than expected.

Canceling the process causes AE to crash. Sometimes upon restarting AE, the menu stops working also - it displays "After Effects: Invalid Menu Option" when clicking on any menu item.

I've deleted the Warp Stabilizer from the comp, purged all memory, restarted AE, restarted the computer, and added the Warp Stabilizer back to the file (it happens on various files - although one did stabilize properly once). I'm looking for other ideas of how to get it to work, but mostly, I'd really like Adobe to fix this issue - when the user must do workarounds to get component of the program to work, it's a bug that needs fixing. 

[bscott87]

I imported the clip to a new file by itself, ran the Warp Stabilizer, and it functioned swimmingly. This, however, should not have to be the workaround. 

[Rick Gerard]

Some shots are not good candidates for Warp Stabilizing. Some will not work at all. It all depends on the shot. Sometimes the format (codec) of the footage has a lot to do with the failure or crashing. This is especially true with footage from consumer devices because they are almost always heavily compressed and many have variable frame rates.

Some more details and a screenshot or sample frame, or better yet, a look at the shot that is giving you problems may help us help you figure out a workaround.

[clintont15158866]

I was able to get around this once by changing the Project Settings from GPU-Accelerated to Mercury Software Only. This is no longer working for me though. 

[postCentral]

I'm working on long footage (1600 frames) and I was having the same issue, but unchecking Fast Analysis box under Advanced Menu, seem to work (AE 22.0.1). I've also applied some Color Levels on the precomped footage to help the stabilizer.

Eitherway AE should pop out an error message to avoid crash.

[djuncheg1]

2023 - problem still there, nothing fixed. 

[Matjoezz]

Checking in here as it keeps happening no matter what I do.

Last stable Warp Stabiliser was the 2020 version, I'm trying to work in 2023 but it freezes so often it is unusable.

[Ben5D3A]

Still happens to me on every other clip. Crazy thing is, you can work around it by simply clicking in the blank area of the Warp Stabilizer effect controls. Everytime you click it advances a few frames...it obviously related to the UI and nothing to do with the back end.

[Dimitrie]

Hello same problem but solved it by making a new AF project and uploading. Maybe It's about some bugs in the project.

[Hernandus]

Maybe it is a dumb answer but make sure global effects toggle button is set to on (greyed out).

[Guest]

I also have had this issue, even after having run the stablizer on the clip and it completing. God forbid if I change some of the parameters, then it starts becoming less responsive, finally freezing up at some percent and saying "2 minutes remaining"

[woortoz]

Same Issue here with AE 2021 Version 18.2.0 (build 37). Precomposing the part that you want to stabilize, that did the trick for me at least.

[why profile pic is a pig?]

2024 - Same issue. Frozen at 2975 frame. 4k 8bit .mov

[why profile pic is a pig?]

completely fresh project too with nothing else in it.

[Thomas247631612jhf]

I had this problem for years, but now in After Effects CC25 I deactivated Multi-Frame-Rendering in the preferences and since then I never had this problem again!

[s8nluck]

worked for me