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AE Won’t Display Text
For some reason, Every time I try to ad text in after effects, it won’t show up. It shows up in the timeline, and it even names it correct in the time line. But the text won’t show on my canvas. any ideas?
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Dave…I’ll add a shot in the dark.
Text color is the SAME as background!?!?!
My money is on that…
Turn on transparency…see if you can see it then.
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Although Dave’s answer is more entertaining, my money is on Jason’s answer … the default background for video is black so, if your text is defaulting to black, the result will be exactly as you described … shows up correctly everywhere else, but is effectively invisible in the comp viewer.
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Transparency is on, Text color is black, Font is Arial, so i know its just not a weird font thing, and the font size is 182.
Here’s a photo.
There’s no font box when I type. All it shows is the center point when I’m done typing.
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I don’t know that I would call ANY of Dave’s answers “entertaining” 😉
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In addition to trying what Dave suggested, you might try going into the comp viewer settings (little arrow at top right of comp window), checking everything (layer handles, etc.), then zooming way out on your comp in the viewer window (25% or so should do it).
That way, if your text is actually there but ended up way off to the side due to a weird paragraph or position setting or something similar, you’ll be able to see its layers handles and move it back within the viewable area.
Or, I doubt this is possible with only 182 point type, but I’ve done silly things like freak out because I couldn’t see my text only to later realize that I had made it so large that I was actually seeing the empty space between characters.
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Yea…the fact that I see an anchor point icon, but no bound box says to me that it is a point size issue…check the scale of the layer too, I can only make my comp look like that if I scale layer to 0.
-Jason
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YES!!!!! Thank you Jason!!
That worked! I don’t know why I tried everything BUT that…
thanks so much everyone! problem solved! -
Aha! Well done, Jason. So, a new question for ya … how many video editors does it take to find a simple type point error?
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