I've recently updated After Effects 2020 (on my Mac) and have this weird issue where I can't see my STROKE effects when previewing / using playback in After Effects.
As soon as you stop previewing it's there. All settings are fine. Even when exporting as Mp4 or whatever it's there as it should but it just doesn't show when previewing which is very annoying as I can't judge the animations / looks of it while working on it.
Thanks Mylenium. Video rendering is at Mercury GPU (Metal) as always, changing it to Software Only doesn't solve it.
I don't know what you mean by "all the life update stuff". If you mean live preview; yes, scrolling through the timeline does show everyting but as soon as you PREVIEW it all stuff that has STROKES don't show where I'm 100% sure this was showing before updating to the latest version.
I'll wager this is a very thin stroke, and you're previewing at a lower resolution. Correct? If that's the case, either increase the stroke thickness (if that still looks appropriate for what you're doing), or increase your preview resolution. Let us know if you're not sure how to do that.
It is indeed a thin stroke (1.5 and 2px). Resolution / Down sample Factor popup is set to full. Even zooming in as far as 800% won't do the trick during the preview. Changing the stroke width to 3px does do the trick but I've been making animations with strokes for years and don't think I've had this problem before in older versions?
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