zlib decompression failed

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
June 11, 2020
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Hi all,

I imported my .exr files rendered in Maya into AE. However, this warning pops up for one of my frames: "After effects error: Error reading pixel data from image file "Unicode Path". Data decompression (zlib) failed. ( 0 :: 9997 )"

I tried opening the specific .exr file in Photoshop, and it opened normally, so it's not like the file itself is corrupt.

Please let me know if anyone has encountered and solved this problem! Thanks.

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fnordware

Inspiring

Yikes! Can you post the EXR file?

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massiah studio

Participant

Totally can do!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/41x0u8m2bpdkgzk/AABXUCYgIjSndPj_j4YKIbzsa?dl=0

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fnordware

Inspiring

Thanks for the files. About half of the EXR files in here are corrupted. For whatever reason, the latest version of the EXR plug-in (http://www.fnordware.com/ProEXR/) can partially read some of those files without popping up an error like the version now shipping with AE does. But I doubt they will be that useful to you as there are a bunch of missing scanlines. You're going to want to re-render those.

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lanef2747092

Participant

I am also having this problem with multi-channel .exr sequences in After Effects, suddenly. Began experiencing this after rendering with Maya 2020.3...AND updating to After Effects 17.1.something. I tried rolling back to 17.0 After Effects with no luck. Anyone?