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  • Lay out after effects is to big, seems not right … How to fix ?

    Posted by Kurisuta Vd wilk on December 18, 2014 at 12:14 pm

    Hello !

    Since I installed CC some things seem odd in the layout of after effects.

    Also Illustrator and Indesign where not ok, but with some searching I found out I needed to change some things in the scale UI settings of my computer.

    But After effects is still off, text is to big / even seems unsharp. Also the starting screen is to biggish. I added a illustrator screenshot for comparison, how it should be.

    Anyone have an idea to fix it ?


    Kurisuta Vd wilk replied 11 years, 9 months ago 5 Members · 9 Replies
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  • Kurisuta Vd wilk

    December 18, 2014 at 10:54 pm

    Hi ! Thanks for your response. I can imagine its hard to see through a screenshot from my computer. Because everything fits, but CC is taking way more space , bigger font, more space around text and panels …

    So i tried this to make myself more clear.
    I installed cs6 again to show the difference, hope you see what I mean, because something is off and it is very anoying to work like this …

    Left is CS6 and right CC

    A big difference in the scale of starting screen ( the rest of CC is just fine and small like I had in CS6, except now in AE )

    In CC i can see less layers, so the lay out is taking up more space.

    In CC Biggers panels, biggers font, less effects to show – so more scrolling

    So, anyone know where to look for ?
    In all the other CC software the fonts are good, it all looks like CS6 but in AE it looks like there is some issue in internal scaling or resolution problem …

    ( i didnt have time to worry about the color yet because this is more anoying for me … 🙂 when this is fixed i will maybe start to fall over the new colors !

  • Kurisuta Vd wilk

    December 18, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    Haha really ??!!

    But why only in After effects change this and keep it all good in all the other software ?

    thats just … well … crap

  • Kurisuta Vd wilk

    December 18, 2014 at 11:22 pm

    But i just dont get it, why only in AE change the scaling/resolution/size…
    So you are sure this scaling thing is the same as in your AE ?

    I just remembered…. the first CC version i had installed , was a year ago and first i used the trial version, and here it was all just fine .
    ( not the color problem, but the scaling and so on )

    so.. is it possible to go back to previous versions ? im going on a quest again 🙂 ….

  • Richard Garabedain

    December 19, 2014 at 1:29 am

    You can still re arrange everything. make your own workshop. It actually helps.

  • Brian Charles

    December 19, 2014 at 2:33 am

    I concur with those who think that the GUI in this version of After Effects is a mis-step.

    A while ago, Todd Kopriva mentioned something in a post here suggesting that there would be some degree of UI customization in an upcoming release. I only hope it will provide a path to restore the UI to something more useable.

  • Tero Ahlfors

    December 19, 2014 at 5:17 am

    This is pretty hilarious. Dudes were FUMING about the new UI changes to the point that they had to roll out a quick patch only for other people to start raging about making the UI more legible.

  • Walter Soyka

    December 19, 2014 at 11:09 am

    Ae CC 2014.1 adds support for scaling on hi-DPI displays. This makes the UI usable on systems like the Surface that pack super high-res displays onto a small screen.

    Hit the Windows key and type “make text and other items larger or smaller” then open the control panel returned as a search result. If you have the scale set for anything larger than 100%, it will trigger the scaling feature you are seeing.

    Walter Soyka
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    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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  • Kurisuta Vd wilk

    December 20, 2014 at 12:33 pm

    In this forum I found out that illustrator now has an option to change the UI because it was messed up too.
    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1500162
    Let’s hope AE will follow…

  • Kurisuta Vd wilk

    December 22, 2014 at 3:07 pm

    Do you by any chance remember where that post is by the way ?

    Update : FOUND IT ! thanks anyway 😉

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