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When importing a project... sometimes all the parenting gets reset to "None"

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
June 30, 2022
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I just discovered a bug where if you import a project that contains parented layers... those parents will suddenly be set to None. However, it only does if you previously imported 2 other projects. Here's an example:

Here's a title project I imported... notice the parenting seems fine.

And here's the same project imported a second time... it's parenting is also fine.

But now I import the exact same project a 3rd time and now the parent is set to none which completely messes up the project (none of the layers are where they should be):

I used the same project in my example, but it happens any any project I import on that 3rd time.

Anybody else notice this?

UPDATE: Make sure the null layer is the top layer. If the null layer you're parenting to is not the top layer, then the issue will happen on the 4th time you import, not the 3rd.

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horacio82

Participant

Fixed in 22.6

Peter J KovacsAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks for the heads up. I'll update now.

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Ben5C0B

Participant

I have also been experiencing the same issue- same versiopn (22.5). The issue happened with multiple imported comps, of varing complexity, a lot of times with comps that have no null/control layers at all, simply one shape layer parented to another. Fingers crossed Adobe looks into this.

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su-won

Participant

Yes, same problem here! - Version 22.5.0 (Build 53)

PetePLTR

Participating Frequently

same here - reeeaally annoying

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bohdanv26637236

Participant

I have the same problem in the same version of AE (22.5.0 (Build 53))

Peter J KovacsAuthor

Inspiring

My only solution was to downgrade After Effects back to 22.4 and the problem went away. Hopefully it'll be fixed in 22.6

Mylenium

Legend

Any expressions involved anywhere or effects that reference other layers in dropdowns? That would be the only times when I can rember something liek this happening because AE can't resolve some name conflicts and cyclic references.

Mylenium

Peter J KovacsAuthor

Inspiring

Hi, yes most of the layers contain an expression that references a color picker on the CONTROL layer. However, I did a test where I removed all the expressions but it didn't make a difference. Those layer still lose their parenting to the CONTROL layer

nishu_kush

Legend

Hi Peter,

Thanks for reporting this.

Which version of After Effects you're using? I am on After Effects 22.5 and I can reproduce the issue at my end.

Let me get back to you on this.

Thanks,

Nishu

Peter J KovacsAuthor

Inspiring

Version 22.5.0 (Build 53)

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

I have never seen that behavior and could not reproduce it with a simple comp that has 3 layers and a null.

Peter J KovacsAuthor

Inspiring

I'm on 22.5 and tried it again and the same thing happened. Here's what I did:

created a new 1920x1080 project with a null and 1 text layer
set the null as layer 1 and the text as layer 2
parent the text layer to the null
save the project
then import that project into itself 3 times
on the 3rd imported version the text layer will no longer be parented to the null
also the text will probably be shifted to the side of the screen

For some reason if the null is the second layer... then the issue will happen on the 4th time it's imported, not the 3rd. But as soon as the null is the top layer, then the issue happens on the 3rd import.

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