• Adobe After Effects

  Can’t see anything in composition panel. Just a block of gray

  Posted by Mary Bryant on February 23, 2013 at 2:42 am

  So I’m new to After Effects and decided to use this video guide I found on YouTube but I can’t get the black window in the Composition Panel. Just a white area. I provided a screen shot.

  

  Mary Bryant replied 13 years ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  Darby Edelen

  February 23, 2013 at 5:43 am

  You’ve stumped me. The interface in that image looks like the Layer Viewer rather than the Composition Viewer, but the tab at the top of the panel very clearly states that you’re viewing a Composition.

  When you create a new composition do you have the same problem?

  Darby Edelen
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  Ridley Walker

  February 23, 2013 at 5:46 pm

  As Darby says the interface looks like a strange mixture of the Composition panel and the Layer panel.

  Try this from the Window menu select Workspace > Standard.

  Then again from the Window menu select Workspace > Reset Standard.

  This should restore the panels to their default locations.
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  Mary Bryant

  February 23, 2013 at 5:55 pm

  I’ve tried the Windows option and that didn’t help. I’m going to uninstall and re-install now.

  This is a trail version and I’m on a Win 8 PC if that affects anything.
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  Has Cha

  April 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm

  HEllo

  I am new in this forum

  I have exactly the same problem

  

  please help help help
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  Umar Jindan

  June 2, 2013 at 3:35 pm

  I have the exact same problem.. I’ve been using After Effects for over a year and this is the first time I have a problem with After Effects…. I tried re-installing it but it didn’t help at all… If anyone can help me pls tell me what to do… Thank you..
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  Mary Bryant

  June 2, 2013 at 5:39 pm

  To fix my problem I had to update my video card I have NVIDA and the problem was I needed to update the card from the website and not from the device manager like I tried to do

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