Cannot See Text in After Effects

[Kevin Smith]

Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, what I did still didn’t make my After Effects Text visible. I double clicked the Text Layer, then in the Character Panel, I selected the reset Option from the drop-down menu.

I see (and can move) the Wireframe of the text, but I cannot see the text. If I click the text tool again, and type within the wireframe, the wireframe expands. This tells me that the text is there and I just can’t see it. Do you have any other recommendations?

Should I provide additional information? Let me know.

Thanks.
Kevin

[Angie Taylor]

Hi,

I know this may seem obvious but it’s caught me out a couple of times. Have you checked that you are in “Active Camera View”? If you are in one of the other views you will not be able to see the text if it is a 2D layer.

cheers,

Angie

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[Karel Van gelder]

Is it possible the text layer is somewhere “out of sight”? You could try right click on the text layer, go to “Transform” and select “Center in view”. It should appear in the middle of your screen.

[Bryan Zilar]

Hi Kevin,

I’m having a similar issue. After using After Effects for several years, I’ve never had this problem. Thanks, Angie and Karel for the other tips. No luck though. I also tried turing off the OpenGL Preview in the Comp window per a forum response at Adobe.com.

Here’s a screenshot of what I’m experiencing.

Best,

Bryan

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[Samuel Ostlund]

Bryan, I had the same problem. The text width is set a 0% when it should be 100%. It is in the Character box right beneath the drop menu where you have “Fill Over Stroke” selected in your screenshot.

That fixed it for me.

[Saketh Sharma]

plz anybody hlp….whenever i type a text…..i see nuthing a mosaic type of text…lyk this

[Peter Ruecktenwald]

I believe your problem is that your image import setting is set to 1 frame. When you create text it abides to the same setting as an image. If your cursor is past the first frame you wont see anything!!!!

Cheers,

vidola

[Ben Bland]

Maybe a few years too late for your problem, buuut… here’s what I did to solve this same issue, after trying everyone else’s suggestions.

Look at where the playhead is. In my case it was way off somewhere on another part of the timeline, so the composition that I was trying to edit was not visible because it wasn’t active at that particular point in the timeline. With the composition open, I just clicked on the Time Ruler at the top of the Timeline and voila, the composition appeared.

Dumb, maybe, but easy to do.

[Phạm Long]

Yes, totally true 🙂

It’s so simple, and dumb at the same time.

Just click on timeline (where I was putting my mouse indicator), then the picture and the text will appear again.

[Andrea Garcia]

This may be a few years late but I found my self having a similar issue.
The reason you can’t see your Text Layer may be because of the with and height.
Here’s an image to help for those who may later have this issue.