*HELP* AE "Invoking" Errors (Not OpenGL)
by jeremey shelton
on
May 20, 2008 at 2:47:05 pm
I did a search and found where some people were having problems with OpenGL, well mine is not that issue.
My project is fairly large and is taking a couple hours per render, so i left it last night to do it's "thing". Came in this morning and this is when the issues started. I went ahead and shut down AE and was going to restart it to make some adjustments and render and alt version. When I went to restart it I got the following two messages:
1: After Effects Error: Crash occurred while invoking effect plug-in "Glow"
2: After Effects Error: Crash occurred while invoking effect plug-in "3D Flag"
Can anyone help me correct this. I am on a tight deadline today and need to get this second version rendered. I really appreciate it!!!
Re: *HELP* AE "Invoking" Errors (Not OpenGL) by Dave LaRonde on May 20, 2008 at 3:09:10 pm
The problem may not be Open GL, but it could be your footage. I include the following so you can check:
Dave's Stock Answer #1:
If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following -- Native HDV, MPEG1, MPEG2, mp4, m2t, H.261 or H.264 -- you need to convert it to a different codec.
These kinds of footage use temporal, or interframe compression. They have keyframes at regular intervals, containing complete frame information. However, the frames in between do NOT have complete information. Interframe codecs toss out duplicated information.
In order to maintain peak rendering efficiency, AE needs complete information for each and every frame. But because these kinds of footage contain only partial information, AE freaks out, resulting in a wide variety of problems.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: *HELP* AE "Invoking" Errors (Not OpenGL) by jeremey shelton on May 20, 2008 at 3:23:47 pm
Dave, thank you very much for taking the time to reply. There is no footage in the comp of any of those types. There is a graphic element with the 3D Flag plugin applied, some Particular emitters, etc. Actually there is no footage of any kind in this particular comp as of yet. That will come later, if I can get it running again.
I also tried the following. I opened the project with the CAPS button locked but it still crashed. Then I went in a deleted the 3D Flag plugin and load the AE project again with the CAPS button locked and it loaded (with a message that the plugin was missing. Then I deleted the instance of "Glow" and it the project loaded fine. So I closed out, reinstalled the 3D Flag plugin and loaded the project and it crashed again.
To me this points to the 3D Flag plugin obviously, but I am unsure how to correct it and this plugin is a huge part of this project, actually the whole reason I bought it in the first place. It was functioning fine lat night, but today, nothing.
Re: *HELP* AE "Invoking" Errors (Not OpenGL) by Dave LaRonde on May 20, 2008 at 3:48:59 pm
I probably won't be able to help in this instance, but others probably will.
So if you can run down the whole litany of the project -- type of footage, resolution in which you're working, specific AE version, platform, OS, y'know, all that stuff you need for an accurate diagnosis -- others can chime in without having to ask for the specifics.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: *HELP* AE "Invoking" Errors (Not OpenGL) by jeremey shelton on May 20, 2008 at 4:39:52 pm
Thank you for your input! Here is the solution I came up with (not the best solution probably, but it worked). I went in a removed the 3D Flag plugin and opened the project. Then I went through and deleted all instances from all comps (I had the 3D Flag on a couple different comps and you have to remove all of them I found). Then saved the project under another name and closed AE. Then I reinstalled the 3D Flag plugin and reopened the project. Everything loaded fine. I then reapplied the 3D Flag plugin to the comps where it was installed before and set them up for my needs.
Right now everything appears to rendering fine. Maybe this can be assistance to someone else down the road. If anything changes I will follow up to let others now.
Re: *HELP* AE "Invoking" Errors (Not OpenGL) by ben soto on Jul 28, 2008 at 9:43:56 pm
hello
I am having a very similar problem, I had a comp in a huge project file that has 3d flag in it, it was running fine. then one day, in the same huge project file I began experimenting with flag on a huge layer. I got the same crash message:
after effects error: crash occurred while invoking effect plug-in "3d flag"
I have now, if I open that same project, I get the same crash. If I remove the plug-in from my plug-in folder, I can get the scene to start with the message:
"This project contains 2 references to missing effects... ("3d Flag")"
If I do a fresh install of the flag plug-in i get the same crash again.
Here is where my problem gets harder. The project is actually about 100 comps deep. I have been working on it for a long long time and is the most complex production I have ever made. I can only actually remember where 1 instance of the flag plug-in being used.
So my question is, is there a way to search for usages of a plug-in thru a whole project?
Is there any other way to purge the corrupted instances of a plug-in? I really liked my settings and would hate to have to redo them.
