• Adobe After Effects

  Is there a limit to text on a layer?

  Posted by Clayton Light on November 7, 2009 at 8:49 pm

  I’m trying to do an effect similar to Eran Stern’s “Digits Man” effect. When I type text in a layer everything is fine until the layer is about half full, then if I type just one more letter, all of the text vanishes. If I hit delete it comes back. Is there a setting I’m not aware of?

  Paul O’neill replied 12 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Brittan Heller

  January 29, 2010 at 3:52 am

  I’m having the same problem…. did you ever find out whats the deal? I have to make a demo for a job and want to use something similar to this for the demo. Please help! I don’t understand why it doesn’t work…..
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  Paul O’neill

  January 28, 2014 at 1:46 pm

  Only just came across this issue myself, so sorry for being late to the party. May help future readers:

  The restriction seems to relate to word length: I wanted to create a binary string to over-fill a 1080 comp. and had the same disappearing text issue. Placing a [space] at the end of each line of text, followed by [shift+return] for a soft-carriage return enables you to fill a paragraph block of a size of your choice. The space at the end of each line shouldn’t affect the look of the layer or comp.

  Cheers,

  Paul

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