Canvas Disappeared...need help!
Good afternoon!
After doing much trouble shooting with Fox_m last night it was decided that I should ask for help in deleting and reinstalling Motion. Upon advisement, I have started a new thread with Fox_m's feeling that either Tom Wolsky or Luis Sequeira might be better help at this point.
(original thread-although not sure where in the thread this will take you...it was originally titled Apple Motion Objects suddenly disappear https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/eb851110-bc73-422c-980b-8d344967d1a3)
I will include screenshots of what has happened. A side note: everything was working perfectly in the morning. I came back in the evening to start working and without doing anything besides opening the Project this problem started. It is the same with any Motion project I have tried to open, including tutorial files that have been working perfectly up to this point. I have restarted my computer multiple times and I have reset/trashed the Preferences.
To keep things simple, you can see I wrote a single line of text. It shows in the Inspector Window, in the Layers Panel and in the Timeline. I have a bounding box but no text shows.
In the second screenshot I thought I would try to draw just a simple rectangle. I deleted the rectangle but as you can see it is still there. I was able to finally make it disappear - but I honestly don't know what I did to accomplish that as I was randomly clicking all over the place. (Sorry)
The third screenshot just shows the Windows menu because I misunderstood what Fox_m wanted to see. I have included it in case it is helpful.
The fourth screenshot is what Fox_m was asking me for. After this Fox_m said something was definitely wrong and suggested it might be time to re-install Motion and felt more comfortable having someone else take over at this point.
On a side note because I'm not sure if it will be important or not...
I am still running Monterey 12.6 based on so many issues with past system updates. I am quite happy with it and am kind of scared/leery to update because of the things I am working on in FCP. I've been worried it will mess that up. (Even so, just so you know, my libraries are all stored on SSDs) But if you all seriously feel it is necessary before we continue I guess I will have to bite the bullet and seriously hope for the best-but I'd rather not.
Ok, I think I've covered everything. Thank you so much in advance (and to Fox_m again if you're reading!) and I am looking forward to hearing from you.