Can’t see my null objects anymore – oh, why?

[Jon Geddes]

If you see it in the composition, turn on the little eyeball to the left of the layer. Did that solve your problem?

Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com

[Vera Duffy]

Thanks for replying. Sadly, that’s not the problem; the eyeball is on. I only know the null is there because I can still use it – for example, parenting it to a camera then moving that around in a general sort of way. It’s the actual box and crosshairs that’s nowhere to be seen, and the problem is, I need to be able to position that box precisely for some of my work.

Very odd, yes? I’m really at a loss.

[Stuart Elith]

Are all your other footage boxes showing up? Perhaps you simply have disabled the Toggle Mask and Shape Paths.

The hotkey to switch it on or off is Cmd + Shift + H, or you can see the switch at the bottom of the comp window, next to the timecode.

[Vera Duffy]

Hm, that doesn’t seem to be it either. I took a screen shot, perhaps there’s something obvious I’m not seeing? https://www.alotofduffysfilms.com/no_null.jpg

Sorry for the bother, thanks for helping!

[Vera Duffy]

Good news – your post prompted me to give this another shot, and it looks like I had things turned off under View – View Options… I turned everything on and made sure View -Show Layer Controls was on (checked). Not sure which did it, but every thing’s visible now. I can’t remember turning anything off – so annoying : )

Let me know how this works for you!

Vera

[Metta Xu]

Stuart,
You are a life saver- Your simple solution saved me another 2 hours of hunting for my disappearing null object… Thanks again for sharing.

[Lars Kristoffersen]

I was battling this one for quite some time, and i managed to find the little rascal…
Select your comp view, pull down the little menu in the top right corner and select “View Options” (view options can also be found under the View menu and is grayed out unless your comp view is selected)

You get the View options menu and the one you’re looking for is “Handles” click it on and ok it.
Now you should be able to see the transform gizmo when you select the null layer.

[David Honan]

I’m getting this problem too, che palle!!! Time to read this thread…

[David Honan]

Yep turning on the view options thingy handles worked!

[Vera Steinbeck]

Ctrl+Shift+H helped me 🙂