Parenting link broken when Pasting

[SquareEyz]

Has anyone else had this issue? Its been persistent for at least the last 2 versions.

I've been noticing parent/child relationships breaking, seemingly at random as I'm work on a comp.

I just recently noticed that it happens during a paste of an animated property from one layer into another.

In this case, both layers are children of null object that drives a scale animation.

When I paste, the parent is deselected on the layer being pasted into.

BUT, when I perform an undo, only the parent de-linking is undone.  I have to undo twice to undo the paste command.

I know many users may not use parenting or null objects at all, but they are a crutal part of my toolbox in 2d and 3d work, and its a total pain to have an otherwise robust and editable workflow turn into a house of cards while I'm working in it. Very un AE behavior.

Anyone able to recreate the problem?

I'm using CC 2017.1on OSX 10.11.6 ; But I'm quite sure its been happening for a while.

I already checked the known issues list and its not there.

Best,

D

[Szalam]

I haven't heard of this happening and I can't cause it to happen. I wonder what's different between your setup and the one I just tested.

Any chance you can share the full project?

Are you using today's update (CC 2017.2)?

[SquareEyz]

Thanks Szalam,

Odd that it is not repeatable on your end.

Here is a trimmed project with placeholders only. in this case the affected layers were text anyhow, parented to a null.

Regional Homelessness Openers_trimmed.aep.zip - Google Drive

Cheers,

David

[Roei Tzoref]

I have tried to perform the exact same operation as displayed in the GIF but could not reproduce this bug: copy Animator 1 from "Homelessness" layer to "Pathways out" and the parent is staying intact. using Windows 10 Ae 14.1

[SquareEyz]

Do either of you have "Animation Composer" installed on your machine?

I've got in transitions on the text elements affected...

Thanks for your time.

[Roei Tzoref]

you are welcome. I love squashing bugs.

I don't have Animation Composter installed. you could try and isolate the problem and see if that is related.

[SquareEyz]

It seems to be an animation composer related issue- thanks for your help guys

I'll bring it up with mister horse himself, and report here when it's fixed.

Best,

David

[Roei Tzoref]

Thank you David and good luck.

[SquareEyz · Accepted solution]

I'm late in reporting that the latest version of Animation Composer has resolved this issue, and continues to be a fantastic tool for fast turnaround, high quality work.
I use it most for in/out transitions, and text reveals.

[SquareEyz]

Thank you for helping debug this!