[Laith Renno]

UPDATE:

I found the source of my issue today.

If I start a new project, add a text layer with some text, then add a second text layer, one text layer moves the other when changing the position of the text, almost as if one text layer is somehow masking the other.

I later found that simply adding a solid as the first layer, under both text layers, the problem goes away.

It is also important to make sure the solid spans the work area wherever the text above exists.

Perhaps I am missing something or someone can explain why this happens?

Thanks,
Laith

[Laith Renno]

Hi Tomas,

Sorry for the confusion. Let me clarify.

I have two instances of a single illustrator graphic of a very basic shape along with an AE text object, all inside of a pre-comp. I found that the AE text object was the source of the problem.

When I highlighted the AE text and selected “create shapes from text”, AE completely stopped crashing when I enabled or disabled collapse transformations continuously rasterize.

The font I am using is Neuville purchased from Myfonts.

What I can do is try to create a new project, using the same font and assets, see if I can recreate. Then swap out the font to see if I can reproduce.

At least I found a solution and if I find it is occurring again, I definitely will come back to upload this thread.

Thank you again for your time.
Laith

[Laith Renno]

Hi Tomas,

No gradients or appearances applied and since it is not text, just a standard path shape, rather than text, no need to convert to outlines, right?

Thanks for your reply,
Laith

[Laith Renno]

Hi Anders,

Thank you for the quick response.

I created the composition myself from scratch. I also have created a couple of other new compositions that exhibit the same behavior when I take a video clip and apply a mask. It is almost as if I have something turned on accidentally in Ae settings.

I am not using any expressions

Later in the in the same composition, I added some shape layers and text layers above behaved normally. Perhaps it is that I have the text layer directly on top of the layer that has the mask? I will experiment more to see if I can narrow it down.

Thanks again,
Laith