Loader Failing Intermittently

Hello,

I'm having some issues with Loaders in Fusion.

I'm loading some clips in Fusion 9.0.2, the files are QT H.264.

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Loader1 failed to load file "/Users/Jack/Movies/Animation/2D Tracking/Perspective 5 - Cate Frame (really hard).MP4" (clip "/Users/Jack/Movies/Animation/2D Tracking/Perspective 5 - Cate Frame (really hard).MP4" at frame 155) : Invalid argument
Loader2 failed to load file "/Users/Jack/Movies/Animation/2D Tracking/Perspective 5 - Cate Frame (really hard).MP4" (clip "/Users/Jack/Movies/Animation/2D Tracking/Perspective 5 - Cate Frame (really hard).MP4" at frame 155) : Invalid argument
Tracker1 cannot get Parameter for Input at time 155
Saver1 cannot get Parameter for Input at time 155
Saver1 failed at time 155
Loader2 failed to load file "/Users/Jack/Movies/Animation/2D Tracking/Perspective 5 - Cate Frame (really hard).MP4" (clip "/Users/Jack/Movies/Animation/2D Tracking/Perspective 5 - Cate Frame (really hard).MP4" at frame 217) : Invalid argument
Loader1 failed to load file "/Users/Jack/Movies/Animation/2D Tracking/Perspective 5 - Cate Frame (really hard).MP4" (clip "/Users/Jack/Movies/Animation/2D Tracking/Perspective 5 - Cate Frame (really hard).MP4" at frame 217) : Invalid argument
Tracker1 cannot get Parameter for Input at time 217
Saver1 cannot get Parameter for Input at time 217
Saver1 failed at time 217


At random time intervals the loader will fail and lag, but will continue playing nonetheless. This happens on most loaders. Is there a reason for this? Thanks

MacBook Pro 15 Retina, Mid 2015
i7 4980HQ, 16GB RAM, AMD Radeon R9 M370X
MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3

It happens to me too.
I guess it's related to the footage encoding.
Maybe fusion is trying to skip some frames due to performance issues then it loses some data and rejoins at later frame?
I guessed this because it doesn't happen with image sequences, where each frame is self contained and doesn't depend on previous frames to be rendered.

Try converting it to image sequences. I believe fusion works well with image seq. like EXR/TGA/PNG

I switched everything to TIFF sequences and there are no problems at all. The crashing issues I've been having are also gone. Thank you!