Unity Assets - Third Person Character Controller camera freezing

Hi all,

I have been working in a 3d project that imported Starter Assets - Third Person Character Controller 1.0 LINK and everything was working fine up until few days ago when I noticed that the camera is freezing when moving. I did modify the Playground scene a bit, however I rolled back my changes and even created a test scene that uses the same logic to move the camera. No luck. When I create a new project with Character Controller 1.0 everything works fine, however the old project is always freezing when moving the camera.

I uploaded a video of the test scene here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YCxBr49jI4

The script that moves the camera is a slimmed down version of the one that comes with the Character Controller 1.0. I'm wondering if there is some issue/setting at the project level that is causing this

         ...
         private void LateUpdate()
         {
             CameraRotation();
         }
 
         private void CameraRotation()
         {
             // if there is an input and camera position is not fixed
             if (_input.look.sqrMagnitude >= _threshold && !LockCameraPosition)
             {
                 _cinemachineTargetYaw += _input.look.x * Time.deltaTime;
                 _cinemachineTargetPitch += _input.look.y * Time.deltaTime;
             }
 
             // clamp our rotations so our values are limited 360 degrees
             _cinemachineTargetYaw = ClampAngle(_cinemachineTargetYaw, float.MinValue, float.MaxValue);
             _cinemachineTargetPitch = ClampAngle(_cinemachineTargetPitch, BottomClamp, TopClamp);
 
             // Cinemachine will follow this target
             CinemachineCameraTarget.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(_cinemachineTargetPitch + CameraAngleOverride, _cinemachineTargetYaw, 0.0f);
         }
 
         private static float ClampAngle(float lfAngle, float lfMin, float lfMax)
         {
             if (lfAngle < -360f) lfAngle += 360f;
             if (lfAngle > 360f) lfAngle -= 360f;
             return Mathf.Clamp(lfAngle, lfMin, lfMax);
         }
         ...