Non-updating of AE comp is back, yet AGAIN!

[hellopaul4]

OH WHEN WILL I EVER LEARN that linked AE/PPRo comps are NOT A THING unless you want to kill yourself.

Of course, because it's Friday afternoon and I have a deadline to meet, AE is just flat-out refusing to update ANYTHING in any of my comps. The same stupid bug that's been around for years.

I'm on AE Beta 26.0.0x47.

Adobe won't read this, Adobe won't act on this....they never do. I have lost count of how many times I've reported this bug - I know detail is missing today, but please look back through my NUMEROUS other reports of the same thing (a search CTI not updating should do it) for all the same old same old...

ugh.

[real_5081]

An existing bug that Adobe has refused to fix for years? I'm so shocked /s

[jenkmeister]

Well Adobe is reading it. The team tries to read all the forum posts. I am sorry you don't feel you are getting the support you need. 

For today, it doesn't sound like this problem is related to the past CTI not updating but it is hard to tell without details. 

Can you share a set of projects that aren't working? Can you share a video of what is happeneing? 

[real_5081]

Reading it isn't quite enough though is it. 

[JohnColombo]

@real_5081 Please keep all comments respectful and in line with our Community Guidelines. We’re here to help and for constructive conversations.

- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

[real_5081]

What specific term of the community guidelines did my comment violate? 

[hellopaul4]

Glad to hear Adobe IS reading this!

The tricky bit is that the problem does not apply to specific projects - the routine seems to be:

• Start working on a PPro project.
• Add some dynamically linked AE comps to the timeline.
• Keep working on the project happily for a few days, adding more DL AE comps. The project in question had, I'd guess, about 30 comps over the ~7 minute edit. Everything was kinda standard; 1920x1080 25fps timeline with 1920x1080 25fps comps dropped in; each comp was pretty basic - maybe 8 layers at most, almost no effects (probably no 3rd party plugins used) - mainly med. res. JPEGs or maybe basic AI files fading on, gradually scaling, fading off; each comp was maybe 8 secs long.
• After about 4 days of working on the project (with a complete shutdown of my PC at the end of each day), I'd start getting the issue: in AE, I'd hit the spacebar to initiate playback, and...nothing. Ah - I remember this - need to SCRUB the CTI to get it to update...maybe then, I can do a spacebar-playback - ah yes! Playback! But the CTI does not move, so it's a real pain to judge timings.
• Quitting AE and relaunching it fixes the problem most of the time.
• Then maybe a day later, the real annoyance starts - the comp viewer remains completely blank - the same dark grey as the surrounding background. And no, I'm not zoomed in on some random area. In fact zooming in and out also achieves nothing at all. At this point, I found a relaunch of AE did not fix the problem; a restart of my PC (sadly I'm now on Windoze 11, Officially The Worst OS in the World) did the trick.

I've never encountered these issues if I'm NOT using DL with PPro.

As I mentioned, I've gone into a lot of detail in my previous bug reports going back several years...not sure if you (Adobe) can look those up easily.

Update...here they are (going back to 2021):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-beta-bugs/the-same-old-non-moving-cti-and-worse-is-back...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/pti-and-cti-not-moving-on-preview/m-p/12337...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/pti-red-current-time-indicator-is-not-movin...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/pti-and-cti-not-moving-on-preview/m-p/12337...