Streaming AE won't show whole screen?

Hello, it sounds like you're encountering an issue with screen sharing on Discord where the video playback zooms in, hiding the timeline and effects. This problem might be due to how Discord captures and displays your screen. To resolve this, you can try adjusting the settings in Discord by going to User Settings > Voice & Video, then scroll down to the "Video Settings" section and ensure that "Use our latest technology to capture your screen" is enabled. Additionally, you can try sharing a specific application window instead of your entire screen, which might provide better control over what your friends see.

Discord is primarily interested in capturing games, and given particularly how some older games were implemented, it will look at child/sub windows within the larger window that are actually being updated/re-rendered, especially if on the GPU, to determine what to perform the capture on.

After Effects previews are child windows within the larger window that are hardware accelerated, and so trigger that behavior in Discord to focus on just that part. There's nothing Adobe can do (or really should do) that would be able to fix this. Discord should instead be offering an option to specify you want to capture the whole window of something.

Check your screen capture software then. Many of them have options to automatically focus on the active window, which may in fact be triggered by AE snagging the hardware overlay buffer when previewing. You may need to reign this in by enforcing to always stream the full desktop or in reverse switching AE to software-only mode.

Mylenium

Check your preview panle and turn off "Always use Fullscreen". You may want to re-read the online help on some of these basics/ essentials.

Mylenium