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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Unable to make more Precomps. Become invisible/unselectable

  • Mykhailo Gorliak

    May 27, 2025 at 9:45 pm

    Did you maybe set that layer as 3D?

  • Eric Pereira

    May 27, 2025 at 10:04 pm

    No. Setting it to 3D layer doesn’t help, either.

    You can see what happens to my cursor when I mouse over the layer.

    It can’t be selected.

    It is inside a composition that is an AEC file from C4D. So all the other layers are 3D, however, nothing like this happened with the other 5 AEC file compositions I have already used. I just tried the next AEC comp I have, and it works just fine. Only this one does this.

    I compensated for the error by not using a precomp, but it’s very annoying.

  • Dan Ebberts

    May 27, 2025 at 11:11 pm

    My guess is that the “Adjust composition duration to the time span of the selected layers” switch in the pre-compose dialog is moving your resulting, shortened precomp off to the left on the time line so that it’s not visible.

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