Can't find layer track on beginning layers of 6 month project.

[codyp61816395]

Hello,

I have been working on a project for over 6 months now in Adobe After Effects and I finally finished my animation after a lot of long hours of working on it. I've run into a problem after going back to the beginning of the project to finish some final editing stuff. About 3/4 of the way through my layers the layer tracks disappear. I can still hit the drop down arrow but I can't see the actual tracks so I can cut them and edit them or even find them when scrolling through all the layers. Now before you reply, I did some research and I didn't know I was supposed to work with multiple compositions and I know that now and will make sure that won't happen when I create my next animation. I know there are ALOT of layers but like I said before, I didn't know that I would run into problems way down the line.

My question is, is there anyway for me to fix this? By grabbing multiple layers and splitting into another composition if that's possible? Or is there something I have turned on/off that I can switch back to see.

Things I've tried: Clearing my cache, restarting my computer, using a previous version of after effects with the saved file, highlighting the layers I need to edit and hit alt shift+[ and scrolled the timeline to the right and did alt shift +].

Yes I am still relatively new to After Effects but I have taught myself alot and have fixed all other problems but I can't seem to get around this one.

Thanks in advance,

Cody

[Roei Tzoref]

this is a UI Limitation of Ae, once you reach 30k pixels, things will disappear. in your case - the large amount of layers is causing this. I advice you to break down your project into smaller segments. create precomps so that you have 600 layers on each for example and make these precomps back to back. there shouldn't be any issue with creating precomps at this point.

[codyp61816395]

Didn't think of doing that. I was about to just create more compositions and edit them and then drag them back into the project. I guess Ill do that then even though that's going to be alot of trimming work to do now haha. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the response.

[Roland Kahlenberg]

As Roei has mentioned, this is a UI limitation. Other than precomping, you can look at Shying layers to minimize the number of layers AE has to display, at any point in time.