I've got a problem for a long time with After Effects and i would like to know if you have the same.
When I type text on After effects, sometimes, a letter is forgotten, i don't know why. I don't have this problem with Premiere, Photoshop, etc. Only with After effects. It became impossible for me to write anything on the software because of that problem.
Do you know how to fix this? I had the same problem before with the CC 2019 as well.
Thank you,
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Are you referring to how you may be typing "HELLO" and only see "HELL" until you complete the text entry?
If so, I've seen that lag in both vesrion 15 (cc2018) and version 16 (cc2019). It's not consistent, either. So sometimes the text entry refreshes as expected and other times it lags.
I tend to copy and paste from a text document (usually Word or TextEdit, but sometimes a client supplied PDF or email) which maintains the formatting on the AE side. Occassionaly I'll copy and paste from Photoshop or Illustrator which retains the PS or AI formatting.
The issue is when you tape a letter won't appear you should tape another letter to make the previous letter appear for example HELLO I have to write HELLOO to get HELLO
This issue within After Effects' code that caused this was fixed awhile ago.
Can you share a screen recording that shows what you are experiencing? If you happen to have screen recording software that can show keystrokes, that would be extra helpful.
It would also be good to have your operating system version, your graphics driver version (if running Windows), and the After Effects version (there have been a handful of versions from 23.0 to 23.2.1), as well as any third party plugins and addons that you are runnning.
I m on mac book pro intel 2019 with the last AE2023. just the trapcode of addons
Curisously, yesterday, i see a difference when i write a text, when i have my character tab open. It's laging, but when i close the tab, and click on another tab, exemple : the align tab, i can write normally.
I had a similar bug, long time ago, on my work computer (with ae 2021), when i open a files with text, it s freezing a lot, and after i kill my preference, it worked normaly, but i think, this issue is different.
I'm running into the same issue on my 2019 intel MBP. I recently added TextEvo - not sure if that's the culprit, but AE seems to be the only thing randomly skipping space bar entry, letters, etc. It's infuriating. I'd love to find a solution to this because it's a recent bug addition and it's just killing my productivity.
I'm not on that particular machine, but it should be AE 23.2.1 Ventura 13.2.1 2.4Ghz 8Core Intel i9 AMD Radeon Pro 5500M w/8GB of GDDR6 64G 2666Mhz DDR4
for what it's worth I'm running almost the exact same setup on an M1 machine and I'm not running into this text typing issue in AE. TextEvo2 on both machines (which is just a script).
In troubleshooting unexpected behavior, I've always found it helpul to start with the base foundation. For example, when troublehsooting a startup issue with a computer, we can take the time to disconnect everything except for the keyboard, monitor, and mouse. It takes some pateince, but whatever is causing the unexpected issue usually presents itself eventually.
It seems like Motion 4 was the culprit. I closed the window and restarted, it helps. The typing might still be a bit laggy but it's not skipping characters and keystrokes now.
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