Bug: Master Properties not displaying property name

After updating to 17.1.4 everything in Master Properties on the timeline is now displaying as the property type (i.e. "Slider" or "Checkbox") instead of the correct name.

macOS Catalina 10.15.6

update: renaming the property in Essential Graphics will rename the property on the timeline (at least temporarily). However, when duplicating the layer, the duplicate will revert to displaying the property type.

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Dan Gehin shared this idea · Sep 17, 2020 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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AdminTim Kurkoski (After Effects Senior Quality Engineer, Adobe DVA) responded · Nov 17, 2020

Thank you for filing this bug report. This bug was fixed in the October 2020 release of After Effects, version 17.5. If you are experiencing this problem in an earlier release, please update After Effects using the Creative Cloud desktop app.

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Paul DiPierro commented · October 20, 2020 10:35 AM · Flag as inappropriate

today's update resolved this problem. huge help. thank you!

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hagai kaufman commented · October 11, 2020 4:32 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Same issue - AE 17.1.4 on both Windows 10 and MacOS 10.13.6

Rolling back to 17.1.3 fixed this.

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Ole Kristensen commented · September 30, 2020 5:49 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Just discovered this bug too and will be reverting to version 17.1.13

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Johannes Koether commented · September 25, 2020 8:02 AM · Flag as inappropriate

On Windows 10 - same problem. When having many master-propertys you are now unable to differentiate between them.

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Nick Schale commented · September 19, 2020 12:40 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I re-installed a previous version of After Effects (Ver 17.1.3 (build 41)) and everything was restored.

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Nick Schale commented · September 19, 2020 11:58 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Seems rather random, for what it's worth.

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Nick Schale commented · September 19, 2020 11:56 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Having the issue on Windows 10 as well. Updated CC, Graphic drivers and all updates on windows.

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John Colombo ( Quality Engineer, After Effects, Adobe ) commented · September 17, 2020 7:37 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi Dan,
Thank you for reporting this issue. We can also reproduce it and have it filed internally as DVAAE-4216677. When a fix is available in the Beta builds, this post will be updated.

Thanks again for reporting this issue,
- John, After Effects Engineering Team

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