Text Layer disappears from active camera when turned into 3D

Hi guys,

Thank you for jumping in.

I'm sorry, I should have made better screenshots where everything in the layers panel is better visible, as from my previous screens, there are only a few camera options barely viewable.

I used the Track Motion option to track the car, then used the Edit Target to connect it to the Null Object. I also tied the text layer to the Null.

I did turn on the camera, but as you suggested, my Null Object wasn't a 3D layer, only the text was. Now, apart from the video layer, the null and the text are 3D layers and camera options seem to be working fine on the text.

Here's a video of the result - https://we.tl/t-fQZHLwYnzm

I'm watching an extensive basics course where they're showing quite a lot and oftentimes I need to watch side videos to better understand how certain tools work, but this type of work can be overwhelming to a newcomer. I know I should also read official guides from Adobe, but I better understand information when I see it with examples.

Thank you once again for your replies!

It would be useful if you actually read the online help on the basics. There's just so much wrong in your whole setup that this will never work. The "Front" view and other auxilairy views will not be renderable for final output, so aligning stuff there is utterly pointless and a total waste of time. Only the imaginary default camera or actual camara layers provide a view that can be rendered and as Rick already pointed out, there appears to be no such layer in your composition, which will render any attempts at reliably placing stuff in the scene equallly pointless. You never know where you are in 3D space and that applies even if you're not using actual 3D camera tracking and just a static camera on top of a 2D plate with 3D text. See how what you have can never work otherwise?!

Mylenium

How did you track the movement of the car? Is there a camera in your composition? Is the footage layer 3D? 

If you used Track Camera, you did not track the car because it is moving, and you'll have to Shift + Parent the 3D text layer to one of the track solids or nulls you added to the shot to position it in the scene.

Your Parent layer (Null 2) is a 2D layer, and the Child (the text) is 3D so that no Z data will be transferred to the 3D text layer. Moving the null isn't going to bring the camera closer to the text layer. 

I don't see a camera in the shot. You cannot animate the virtual camera so if you want a camera to move, add a Camera.

I probably would have used Mocha AE to track the car and only used Position, Rotation, and Scale. You could apply the tracking data to a null, turn off rotation by disabling keyframes, then Parent the text layer to the null and it would move with the car and scale up at the same rate as the car grows in the scene.

Show us all the layers in your comp and give us a more detailed workflow, and maybe we can help you figure out where the problem lies.