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How to reset all settings in AE CS5?
I thought I was KIND OF getting the hang of AE, but it’s doing these really weird things with my text and everything. When I add a a text layer, and I type in what I want, I can’t even see anything. I can highlight it and tell its there, but I dont see any letters. I go to transparent view and see that the text is black, so that may be the reason why I can’t see it. one problem: i don’t even know how to change the color. When i first installed AE, I just went to layer>text and there was always a window that let me change the color, but that window doesn’t show up! I don’t know what I did. I’m just trying to create a 3d shatter effect with my text and even when i put a shatter layer over the text, it doesn’t work. There are also many other setting that weren’t before, but now, are different.
And yes, I tried the ‘reset workspace’ option, didn’t work. I tried the ‘new workspace’, didnt work. I’ve tried ‘delete workspace’, didn’t work. I’ve even tried reinstalling AE, and everything was still messed up.
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window>character will bring the character panel back.
also, here is the link to the ae cs5 online help file:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/index.htmlit’s much faster to look up basic ae functions there then to wait for someone to respond here…
if you still want to reset the ae prefs hold Alt+Ctrl+Shift (windows) or Option+Cmd+Shift (osx) while launching ae.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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I have the same problem? my name is Ralph from London, i can’t even see my text, did you find out how to reset adobe after effects?
Help?
thanks Ralph
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thanks a lot
but i tried that and i still cannot see my text when i type it,
Very strange
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thank you for you swift response
i try to figure it out, its so complicated
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It’s two years later, now, did you guys ever figure this out? 🙂
Every once in a while I check this discussion out it seems, and no one knows yet… It’s kind of amusing, actually; it’s become sort of a hobby:)
Most of the time I work on this MacBook Pro with an extra monitor so I don’t care, I shuffle windows around a lot and have saved workspaces. but when I run it on just the laptop screen, it’s FUBAR. Makes me crazy (and terribly unproductive). With most apps, there’s a file or two somewhere to just trash, and boom, back to factory specs, right? And I have only one good hand, so that key combo stuff is problematic for me to begin with. So anything new? I have time between stuff and no extra monitor.
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