Timeline missing from some AE projects not all.

Question

So as you can see, in this particular project, the timeline is ghosted, when you mouse over it, some of the timeline comes back, then if you click elsewhere, the timeline vanishes again. I’ve deleted the cash files, no effect. The really strange thing is other projects do not do this, I get these random ones that just won’t load. You can enter text on the playback but you can’t select anything in the timeline. Vanishes as soon as you attempt to mouse over it. I am working with the latest AE 26.5. Any ideas? And don’t come back with add the comp to a new comp, that does not work and it’s a workaround.

AxelEdit · Accepted Answer

Yea, I’m aware of the Shy Layers, this isn’t that, when you mouse over the layers, they appear briefly then disappear again, if Shy Layers were on, those layers wouldn’t show up at all. I have a few AE projects that uses Shy Layers, I have to turn them off to make further adjustments even tho the author doesn’t want me to! It’s a corrupted project who’s ID numbers are not aligning correctly, so to fix this, you have to make a new project and import in the corrupted project to re-align the ID numbers, THEN the project works within the new project ID settings. No one knows why this happens, but this is the workaround.

sskaz · Answer

If you turn off Shy Layers, you should see more layers. Template authors love to hide everything. This might be a legitimate UI display drawing bug, but turn off shy layers and see what happens.

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