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JimboMonkey12344 years ago (1 edit)

I haven't been able to get this to work yet, I'm using Adobe After Effects CC 2015 on Windows 10.

When I click on "Squirt GIF" I get the "It may appear that After Effects has crashed..." message, but when I press "Yes" the popup closes and nothing happens.

I read the other bug  reports, and I found that my c:\ProgramData doesn't have squidyavi.bat, so I figured it was having trouble writing to the file system. I tried reinstalling the script, making sure that "Allow scripts to write files" is checked, and even tried running After Effects as administrator, but nothing's changed. I also tried "Enable JavaScript debugger" but that didn't do anything either.

Anything else I can try to troubleshoot? Where does squidyavi.bat come from, is it downloaded from the Internet at runtime?

Update: solved! The issue was that I had the video file selected in the Projects tab (instead of the Composition).

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GunSquid4 years ago

c:\ProgramData\squidy.avi is generated by the plugin after rendering your comp to an AVI. It sounds like the render is never kicking off, but there is a workaround: Manually queue your comp for a render to AVI, and set the render location somewhere project-agnostic, like c:\projects\GIFs.  Render your comp out, clear the queue, and delete the render. Squirting should now work.  

The reason this workaround works is because GIFSquid/CuddlePhish render to the last location you rendered to.

Also if you haven't already, join the High Quality Gifs discord where lots of folks share tips and give advice.

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JimboMonkey12344 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks GunSquid, I should've mentioned that I had tried that too. Tried again, no change. For the render I did "File > Export > Add to Render Queue", in case there's another way to do it. I rendered as AVI (but I'm guessing that doesn't matter since you said to delete the render anyway).

I'll try posting in the discord!

Update: solved! The issue was that I had the video file selected in the Projects tab (instead of the Composition).

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