Film Impact Plugin Intercommunication failed

[samanyay_7560]

Film Impact plugins intercommunication failed

Somehow while working, the film impacts effects stopped working.
Unlike what other posts say, this is not cosmetic, and it actually has stopped working.

I am not using any third party plugins.

My specs are Ryzen 7 9800x3D, Rtx 5080, 32gb ddr5 ram, Im running on latest win11 and my premiere pro version is 25.6.3 

[Peru Bob]

Attachments aren't working in the forum today.

Can you drag and drop instead?

Silly question, but I have to ask:

Did you try restarting the computer?

[samanyay_7560]

The attachments are just the error messages.
And saadly yes, i tried restarting the pc, didnt work.

[David Simonton, DVA]

Getting this to reproduce reliably in-house has been elusive, but we've seen it, and there's a fix forthcoming in the next release (v26).  In the meantime, we've noticed that *sometimes* quitting and re-launching Premiere can get past the error, which is caused by a race condition.  We also saw that sometimes a project (usually a larger, effects-heavy project) can become especially persistent at triggering this.  Starting with a fresh, smaller/empty project sometimes gets past the cascade of errors, then opening the larger, more developed project would work again.  There is indeed a 'cosmetic' version of this issue where you'll see the errors and the effects will still work, and that's also fixed in the next release, but that's not what you're hitting, of course.  I'm sorry I don't know of a simple workaround that's known to be effective in every case.  Please let us know if you find a workaround that gets your project/plugins loading correctly for you.  

[David Simonton, DVA]

We did have one internal user who encountered a functional failure similar to this, but then the issue went away after re-installing the application and never came back.  So if you want to try re-installing PPRO, that *might* fix it for you. 

[samanyay_7560]

Re-installation didnt fix it. But I did open a new project and tried to use the exact same film impact effect. and while it says theres an error, its working fine here. But the effect in the original project still isnt working as intended. So theres that.
I guess this will have to do for now. I really love using Prem Pro but yall have got to stop breaking on thing or the other with every update...... waiting for v26.

[AndrewTheGreat]

I don't understand why is fixing this simple bug taking so long. I just installed the original package from FilmImpact (the latest available version) and THERE IS NOT ISSUES like this. They just work. Why keep the users wait for the major software update to fix such a minor issue? We work everyday, you know, we need the plugins dayly.

And what about that render error which comes with a program monitor overlay saying the renderer caused an error please contact FilmImpact for support? (unfortunately I didn't make a screenshot of this disgrace). It happened in a Freshly installed Premiere pro with no third party plugins.

C'mon guys, issue a fix already.

[David Simonton, DVA]

If 25.5 is an option for you, it might work in that version.  So sorry I don't have a reliable workaround for 25.6.

[mtwjames]

Hi David,

I have some additional info on the film impact issues.  I am running a two monitor setup, and depending on which monitor the dashboard is on, my projects will not render either just a timeline effects render, or a final render out to mp4.

One of the other suggestions made was to use smaller, new projects, but I have had the issue in new and old projects.

Also, in spite of the error, the effects do actually work for me, but I have to close the window for them to render out of the timeline.  

Hope that helps someone.

My setup is an M2 Mac studio 64 GB Ram