Hi all.
I have searched everywhere for the answer to this problem and there seems to be numerous. But I just cannot get those answers to solve my issue.
I learned from reading these forums that it is a good idea to use one single 'adjustment layer' to modify the effects for my video clips and it does make a lot of sense.
To do that of course, I have had to move the order of my layers around as I do not want the video effect to also adjust images which I have scattered throughout the composition. Bit of a pain but no real issue there.
I chose to keep warp stabilization on each clip as some clips needed it, others didn't and I would not know how to have the adjustment layer handle the on or off requirement of each clip.
So I added hue/sat, exposure and shadow/highlight adjustments to the adjustment layer and it all made my video clips look consistent and how I want it. I saved the project last night all ready for me to render when I woke this morning. This is where the problems began and I have been on it for many hours now trying to solve to no avail.
THE PROBLEM
I open up my project as normal but before too long, I get the error message 'After Effects error: crash occurred while invoking effect plug-in 'warp stabilizer'.
Soon followed by the message 'After Effects error: crash occurred while invoking effect plug-in 'Shadow/highlight'.
Error messages then follow basically telling me the program is crashing.
SOLUTIONS ATTEMPTED
I read that to solve this, the plugins should be taken out of the program installation area. This worked, but of course I got the error message that they were missing when I opened the project. Then I put the warp stabilizer aex file back in the installation folder. This worked. My warp stabilization was now working ok in the project. At this point, I was feeling positive.
I then put the shadow/highlights aex file back. Back to square one. Not only did it give me the error on the s/h but it was also back on the warp which was working ok before I put the s/h aex file back.
If I don't bother working with shadow/highlight I could now carry on. But not only is this a bit defeatist and not as I want it, but also the problem might still crop up when attempting another effect so not really what I want to do.
I also tried the method of pre-composing. I don't have any experience with this but it just seemed to give me a new composition with the adjustment layer hidden away and the preview I had was one without all my effects so seemed pretty useless to not be able to see what effects I was adding.
I am sorely tempted to go back and forget adjustment layers as this problem didn't occur when I was just copy/pasting effects into each video clip.
Can anyone help please?
Thank you in advance.