Fix a problem in Cask Flow
This covers the failures that belong to Cask Flow itself. For a client that cannot see the app’s tools, see Fix an agent connection.
You need:
- Cask Flow, open.
- Look for a notice at the top of the editor. A project that stopped saving says so there, and nothing else will work until you answer it.
- Check the layers pane on the left. A layer you cannot see on the stage is usually there, either outside the frame or behind something.
- Check the node’s In / out row in the Inspector. Outside that window the node is not drawn at all.
- Check the playhead. A move you cannot see may be over before the frame you are parked on.
- If an export was refused, read the message. It names the reason rather than the step that failed.
Result
Section titled “Result”You know which of the three things is wrong: the document, the scene, or the export destination.
If it doesn’t work
Section titled “If it doesn’t work”| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Every edit is refused and nothing saves | The project bundle changed on disk under the editor | Answer the notice: reload from disk, which discards this session’s edits, or keep your changes, which overwrites what is on disk |
| The export is refused before the save panel closes | The destination is inside the project’s own bundle, which would stop the project saving | Export somewhere else |
| A ProRes preset will not write the file you named | ProRes is a QuickTime codec and cannot go into an MP4 | Save as .mov, or pick a Deliver preset |
| Transparent is disabled in the export card | The composition has no background, so it is already transparent | Nothing to do. Export with a codec that carries alpha to keep it |
| A layer is in the layers pane but not on the stage | It is outside the frame, behind another layer, at zero opacity, or outside its In / out window | Select it and check Position, Opacity and In / out in the Inspector |
| A keyframed move plays as a still | Both keyframes sit at the same time | Drag one along its lane in the dope sheet |
| The first frame of a composition with sound hangs for a moment | The audio player takes about a tenth of a second to produce its first samples, and playback waits for it | Expected. The alternative is picture and sound three frames apart for the whole take |
| ⌘Z does nothing while you are dragging | Undo stands down during a gizmo or keyframe drag, because undoing mid-drag is clobbered by the commit | Finish or abandon the drag with Esc, then undo |
| The app never offers an update | Cask Flow does not update itself yet | Download the current release again |