After effects CC annoying transparency grid ghosting problem

I just installed after effects CC on the new mac pro. Using a brand new asus monitor. Have a annoying problem with the transparency grid coming in as white can't see the grey checkerboard part. Whats stranger is the grey checkers come up with a menu in front of the composition window feathered around the edges. You can see in the pic the checkers outside the feathered edge come up almost pure white on my monitor. The grey squares look a lot darker on this capture on my monitor they are almost pure white. Maybe its a monitor issue??? Been working in after effects for over 10 years never had this problem. While its just cosmetic its really annoying. Any input????

Never seen that. Try deleting the preferences file. Make sure your graphics drivers are up to date. What else is running? What version of OSX down to the decimal point? What version of AE down to the decimal point?

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After Effects CS6: Cache and Reload Footage Problem
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If this is operator error, lack of understanding the cache functions, or something else, I'd appreciate some assistance. I don't recall this behavior in CS 5.5, so I am guessing this is a change in CS 6.
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about Illustrator and Photoshop files in CS6 especially - you should work with Ctrl/Cmd+E (Edit Original).
when in Ae and you want to change a source file, use this command on one of the layers
from the source file you wish to change (doesn't matter if its in the timeline or project window) and
your original software linked to that file will open.
when you work this way you make AE reload that file and any change after that will be seen back in AE immediately.
it is also very convenient way to work because there can be no confusion on which file you are on
if you work with multiple source files for example.
even if you made the change with your Photoshop/Illustrator opened file and got back to Ae
and didn't see any change - press on one of the layers Ctrl/Cmd+E and this will refresh it immediately.
This is the case in CS6.
in CC I have noticed that any change I make is refreshed immediately in Ae as if it rechecks the changes all the time,
and didn't even need to use Ctrl/Cmd+E but it's a good habit all the same.
didn't come across a case where that didn't work for be but
if all fails you could always change the folder location of the file, let Ae lose it, then replace footage of the file,
and thus let Ae re-link it back.

After effects CC 2014 transparency properties of pre comps, collapse transformation on, no longer keyframeable???!!!

Hey there,
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Click the image to view in a higher resolution.
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