Cannot See or Apply Animation Presets

[derrickf50200177]

Hi,

I'm new to After Effects and just recently installed the application. I notice that the Animation Presets and not available with the Effects and Presets section.  Also, if I choose to Browse Presets with Bridge, the visuals previews do not appear.  Can someone please provide some assistance for resolving this issue?

I'm using the following:

Adobe After Effects CC 2018 -15.0.1 (build 73)

Adobe Bridge CC 2018 version 8.0.1.282

Here's a screen capture:

Derrick

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

DerrickF,

Head over to the panel menu and see if the presets are enabled or not. That is usually the culprit.

Thanks,
Kevin

[ZippyLomax]

I'm having a similar issue. Try as I might, no matter which, increasingly creative search terms I use, I cannot find a solution. Nor can I see how to ask a direct question here, without replying to another thread. Super frustrating!

Though I'm self-taught and admittedly not entirely familiar with how it all works, I've used After Effects for a while now, and I've been able to navigate AE without issue until now. I've done enough to know that what I'm attempting should be simple. 

All I'm trying to do is apply a simple text animation preset. I've tried selecting the layer, browsing presets in bridge and double clicking – history shows a preset was applied, yet nothing happens...it doesn't show up in the layer dropdown. I've also tried dragging directly from the presets panel (top right in AE)...same issue; absolutely nothing happens. I try double-clicking the preset within that panel and it creates an emtpy layer above the one I'm trying to apply the preset to.

I have no idea why it's not working as it always has in the past – have tried to determine if I somehow 'disabled' layer effects – have searched for instructions as to how I might 'enable' them (to no avail) – it's now been hours of zero progress when this should've taken me maybe 5 minutes (tops!) I do notice that there is no selectable 'box' beneath the 'fx' option on the layers themselves, and clicking that does nothing, which leads to me to believe it has something to do with composition settings. If that's the case, I can't figure out where to find that option and change it. 

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong/what I'm missing? This is the last step in a project that's taken months. To be stuck on this snag, unable to complete this video-edit is absurd!

Please help!

Thank you, in advance...
Zippy

[eemilyy]

You probably figured this out by now but I was having the same issue. Looks like you're trying to apply a text preset on a non text layer (png).