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After Effects 2020 LIQUIFY tool is not working

Community Beginner ,
Jan 16, 2020 Jan 16, 2020

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Please help fix the LIQUIFY tool is not working on After Effects 2020.
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LEGEND ,
Jan 17, 2020 Jan 17, 2020

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And what exactly? You need to be much more specific and explain what is actually going on. Just showing us a screenshot of the effect controls is not telling us anything.

 

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New Here ,
May 22, 2020 May 22, 2020

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I am having an issue with it as well, it won't do any distortion, it just moves the object's position.

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New Here ,
Jul 22, 2020 Jul 22, 2020

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Having the exact same issue-- anyone figure this out yet? Toggling the Mask and Shape visibilty did not work for me. 

 

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Community Expert ,
May 22, 2020 May 22, 2020

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Do you have the Liquify effect selected in the Effects Control Panel or the Timeline? Did you turn on Show Grid in the View Options? Are you using the Selection tool (v)? 

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If the layer is moving it means that you do not have Luqify selected and you have not selected one of the Liquify tools. 

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New Here ,
Jun 01, 2020 Jun 01, 2020

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Same prob here. The toolset does work when trying to change the layer itself, but I want to use them on a composition in order to add keyframes and animate. In the composition however, when hovering over the toolset (e.g. warp/hand) the icons do turn yellow but it's not possible to activate the tools. You can click as much as you want, the icons stay gray/inactive, as above screenshot. No brushes appear when hovering over the composition, just the curvor , so the only thing happening when dragging is moving the position.

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New Here ,
Jun 06, 2020 Jun 06, 2020

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did you found the solution? I'm also having the same problem.

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Community Beginner ,
May 09, 2022 May 09, 2022

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Same problem, in desperate need of a solution. it worked perfectly but as soon as entering another composition the same issue appears on my end. 

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Community Expert ,
Jun 06, 2020 Jun 06, 2020

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Try changing the GPU settings in your Preferences file (two places) and in the Project Settings Panel.

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New Here ,
Jun 24, 2020 Jun 24, 2020

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hello, same problem here. Your advice is not very clear, more precision would be useful.

 

 

edit: i found a solution to my problem (put a key on the envelope distort option ) my bad 

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New Here ,
Jul 03, 2020 Jul 03, 2020

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Toggle the Mask and Shape Path Visibility... that seems to fix it.  Buggy.

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Explorer ,
Jul 04, 2020 Jul 04, 2020

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Thank you, this totally fixed it. Why on earth would Mask Visibility stop the brushes from showing up?

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 02, 2020 Aug 02, 2020

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Holy hell, that worked for me too! Thanks!

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Explorer ,
Sep 10, 2020 Sep 10, 2020

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Had the same problem and this works! Thanks for this!

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 02, 2020 Oct 02, 2020

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I could kiss your brains right now... What a pain that little bug was. Cheers for that!

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New Here ,
Sep 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021

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Bravo! thanks a lot, it was driving me crazy

 

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New Here ,
Oct 15, 2021 Oct 15, 2021

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I'm stuck by this. Thank you so much

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Community Beginner ,
May 09, 2022 May 09, 2022

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you saved my night!!! 

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 20, 2023 Feb 20, 2023

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Superb! That was driving me nuts.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 13, 2023 Jul 13, 2023

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LOOL this totally worked !!! thank you sm ! i was going insane

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Explorer ,
Jul 04, 2020 Jul 04, 2020

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Having the exact same issue. Liquify Brushes suddenly stop being visible and just drag the layer around. Cannot shape or make adjustments to anything new. 

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New Here ,
Aug 11, 2020 Aug 11, 2020

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Yeah, me too.

 

I was using it just a few minutes ago.. and now I can't select the various tools. They click yellow but stay gray, and simply move the layer around.

 

Adobe is falling apart. 

We don't need new crappy tools. We need reliable software that works well. 

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Explorer ,
Aug 26, 2020 Aug 26, 2020

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I had the same problem but I figured it out. I had "View>Show Layer Control" (Shift+Ctrl+H) set to OFF. Try enabling it and the brush should appear and stop moving around the layer.

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New Here ,
Sep 21, 2020 Sep 21, 2020

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That was totally it. Thank you. 

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New Here ,
Sep 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021

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Thank you, that worked for me. It's ridiculous that these work arounds are so necessary for an "established" app like After Effects.

 

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