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My After Effects preview is all black.

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Is there a way to repair this? Because every time I try to preview my footage the video shown is completely black. Is there an option to tick or something? This problem started after doing some 3D edits.

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I've been experiencing this problem for over a month now. One day my video preview just disappeared. Audio played during ram preview but the video was all black. However, today I finally realized the dumb reason why I wasn't seeing any video! I hope this solves your problem as well...

In the preview panel it says "include" and there are a few icons: a speaker icon, an eye, etc. The eye icon wasn't selected! That's why nothing was showing up. I must have accidentally un-clicked it. Make sure it's selected on your end.

Good luck!

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Zain5E92

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i need desperate help, i spent so much money on after effects and i have the exact same problem. my composition is black.

i deleted and reinstalled after effects

my caps lock is off

they eye icon is on

i really dont know what to do and im extremley desperate for a fix please

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MichałRe

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Same issue here... Nothing helps.

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secksx

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Go to View add new viewer and close your old one do this after purging

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ReFlecT5C25

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Hey I have also been experiencing the same issue but different. When I apply an effect into my composition, It just goes black... Any help?

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15D85

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I'm having the same issue too, after applying an effect, it just goes black. I've tried all the solutions here but none worked for me.

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default68w525efrwgm

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Life changing comment!!!!

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everettjhall

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this was my problem --- been using AE since 2001 too lol ... thank you

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joelh67544336

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I had the same problem. THere is a small button on the bottom which says "region of interest". I had accidentally pushed or used a hot key. Either way when I pushed it the image reappeared.

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ramyr6050553

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I ran into a similar problem today, a black preview!

Solution: I realized that when I toggle motion blur active to a precomp containg precoms, while the prcomps contains very wigling particles. It doesn't RAM-preview. Removing the motion blur solve it.

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eval5C4D

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Removing motion blur did it for me as well! After Effects 2020 on a 2014 MacBook Pro.

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Byron Cortez

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Try to purge the application. Go to the menu Edit / Purge / All Memory and Disk Cache. In some cases, the previous ones hosted in RAM and Disk Cache usually give problems.

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KarinaMandarina

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I had the same problem and I realized that it just changed from Active Camera to Front Camera.
I realized that I could see just some elements and that's when I noticed the Camera's changes. It turned black when I was trying to press I-don't-know-what-keys on my keyboard. There must be a shortcut to change cameras....

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MrJoe_20

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thank you very much this solved the problem I had.

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talfeldCorrect answer

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I've been experiencing this problem for over a month now. One day my video preview just disappeared. Audio played during ram preview but the video was all black. However, today I finally realized the dumb reason why I wasn't seeing any video! I hope this solves your problem as well...

In the preview panel it says "include" and there are a few icons: a speaker icon, an eye, etc. The eye icon wasn't selected! That's why nothing was showing up. I must have accidentally un-clicked it. Make sure it's selected on your end.

Good luck!

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