If I click on that and go to the Character panel which I had open already, it shows me the name of the font.
That's because missing fonts shows up here and shows me only the things where there are missing fonts. If I double-click on that it shows me just this missing fonts file down here. There are two text layers here but only one is a missing font. Let's track down Missing Fonts so when I click on that it'll show me the only thing that has the missing font. Let's just back this up a little bit by backing to Missing again. I can spread this out a bit - you can see the new name right there changed like that.Īll right, that took care of that. Going to our Working Files, going to PhotoSpin-assets and double-clicking on this. So, let's relink to that by just double-clicking on it. It'll track it down right away and show you the thing that's missing. I'll click on Missing Footage and it shows me that okay, this is the one thing that's missing. We'll start off with Missing Footage because that's the easiest one to work with here. And you can find Missing Effects, Fonts and Footage. Type in missing or just type in mis and pretty soon these guys are going to show up. I just open up assets and lo and behold there it is, but let's use the other method to track it down.Īnd the way you track it down is by just typing in the Search bar here. But here it's kind of tucked away a little bit.
It also concealed where some of these missing things are because I wanted to make a little bit more difficult just to show you the normal process to track things down.Įarlier in the course I showed you how to relink to unlinked assets and they're all showing up here on the left-hand side with those little color bar icons.
Now I put the assets and the comps inside folders here because that's the normal way that you work when you want to organize your workspace. It's also a color bars icon right here, a thumbnail and it will be a thumbnail over here in the Project panel when you track it down. The missing asset becomes color bars inside your comp. OK.Īnd this is what you're going to see when you open it up. Now it says it's missing an asset, that's because we just changed the name of that one file. Now it says it's missing a font, the font family Academy Engraved Let Plain,that's missing, OK. It's a particular effect called "BCC Water Color" from Boras effects.
You need to install the following effect to restore this reference. First one, this project contains a reference to a missing effect. So, I'm going to track down that project file by going over here, going down to here and scrolling down to the bottom of my collection of projects here to this one here, missing-fonts-effects.aep. And so now it'll be interesting to see how After Effects deals with all those changes. So, I'm going to go over here to my folder here and go to this folder and change the name of this file I'll type and change at the end just to make sure that we have changed it. And finally, now I'm going to change one of the file names. And then I deleted the effect, but again I've got that effect here, tucked away inside this folder as well.
But all is not lost, I've got that fonts install file right here. Then I saved that project and closed it.Īnd then to start messing with things first of all I deleted that font. I created a project in After Effects that used a specific font and used an effect from a third-party provider and then used some assets. To set things up I've kind of messed with my system a little bit. I'm going to explain how to track down all three of those elements in this lesson. The people above Tim Kurkoski's paygrade should realize that we're the ones paying them.After Effects is very helpful when it comes to tracking down missing fonts, effects and assets or footage as they call it. At least warn people with a huge banner that it's at their own risk before installing it.
I'm really pissed off at the moment, I yesterday worked on a locked system of a client which had the update installed and it made my project pretty much unworkable.
Also the audio is more broken than before, which was marketed as a "new feature". I immediately got crashes by moving panels around too fast and by simply panning in the viewport, something that never happened before. At least it should be called beta, I can't imagine this have been tested well yet. I also wonder if the guess about the naming is not correct, what is the real reason behind the naming? It would be nice to get some real answers every now and then, people might think this is a bug fix release instead of a "big/bug" release. I can't call this good stuff, the brand name is becoming synonymous with buggy releases. Most likely a push from investors, the way it usually goes.