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kevinc94605330
kevinc94605330
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October 5, 2020
Question

Stroke effect not showing when PREVIEWING animation

  • October 5, 2020
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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.

Is there any fix for this?

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4 replies

andz
andz
Inspiring
October 6, 2020

below 2 pixel value of stroke cant be viewed by preview if you are not using full resolution preview.

Kyle Hamrick
Community Expert
Kyle HamrickCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 5, 2020

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.

kevinc94605330
kevinc94605330Author
Known Participant
October 8, 2020

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?

Mohammad.Harb
Community Expert
Mohammad.HarbCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 5, 2020

Try burging All the memory. Restart After effects.

 

kevinc94605330
kevinc94605330Author
Known Participant
October 5, 2020

Thanks Mohammad. This didn't do the trick though. 

Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
October 5, 2020

Start by checking your hardware acceleration settings and of course if al lthe life update stuff is working.

 

Mylenium

kevinc94605330
kevinc94605330Author
Known Participant
October 5, 2020

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.

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