AE quirk: hidden layers?

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AE quirk: hidden layers?

Posted by Steve Roberts on July 25, 2011 at 11:00 pm

Hey all,
One of my students is having a problem with AE CS5: you can see the bounding box of each layer, but nothing else. Curse my brain, I had this problem when I first installed CS5, but now I can’t remember how it went away.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Sorry for the vagueness.

No, mine wasn’t a solo/visibility/wireframe/OpenGL issue. 🙂

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Todd Kopriva
July 25, 2011 at 11:17 pm

Have you reset the preferences?

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Steve Roberts
July 25, 2011 at 11:18 pm

I shall advise that, and get back to you. Thanks, Todd.
Steve Roberts
July 25, 2011 at 11:41 pm

Didn’t work.
They’re AI layers, so I’m advising various voodoo techniques of opening AI, or replacing with the same layer inside AE, or reloading in AE. A screengrab is coming.
Todd Kopriva
July 25, 2011 at 11:52 pm

Ah! Illustrator layers disappearing. That is useful information.

See this thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/997446

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Steve Roberts
July 25, 2011 at 11:53 pm

Except for the hidden layer, the screengrab looks normal to me. Whaddaya think, Todd?
Steve Roberts
July 25, 2011 at 11:54 pm

Thanks, Todd — I’ll pass it on.
Todd Kopriva
July 26, 2011 at 12:13 am

Did you see my previous post pointing to a thread here on the COW with suggested solutions?

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Steve Roberts
July 27, 2011 at 12:54 am

Yep, thanks, Todd. I responded to it at 7:54:53.

Now that you mention it, I seem to recall changing multiprocessing settings in a fit of desperation a while ago, an action obviously not kept in my long-term memory.

No word from the student yet.

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