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Sterphy
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September 28, 2022
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Folders in After Effects timeline

  • September 28, 2022
  • 123 replies
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Timeline folders. We have them in Animate, Photoshop, Illustrator... precomps can utterly ruin your work and is NOT an alternatives to having a simple folder hierarchy - especially when dealing with shape layers or anything that requires continual rasterization.

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Ernandes13
Participating Frequently
September 28, 2022
Adobe improve this features by default please!
Thanks!
https://aescripts.com/layer-groups/
Sterphy
SterphyAuthor
Known Participant
September 28, 2022
Really really need this. I use shape layers a lot, and shapes can be grouped within individual shape layers, so why not in the timeline generally? Even if it had no function beyond just organising huge project a bit better. Frankly it's kinda ridiculous that they don't have this feature in AE, especially when it's in literally every other programme.
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
Yes and yes. Would be a huge + when timelines has tons of layers. Currently i use the shy button to hide layers, but having the option to select layers you want to hide, but keep in the comp, and hit ctrl G to bring them all under a single layer would be great. without losing all the blending modes.

should be a feature
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
nest layers for better GUI experience
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
I'm suggesting this idea for years. It would be really helpful! Adobe hear us please! When you have a lot of layers project become hard to organize (keep clear) and precomps and quite drastical change which creates new comp (make project panel less organize), break all scripts etc. please give us GROUPS!
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
There's no reason for not adding it. We've been asking for this feature for ages and yet you chose to not listen to your user base. Why? Just... why?
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
Yeah, I'm looking for this feature too. Hope Adobe take a look at this.
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
I would like to be able to group layers, similarly to in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Creating small groups of objects without the need for making them into a comp first would be very helpful.
Inspiring
September 28, 2022
Let us group objects, groups are not nessesary to be interactive, if that's impossible for some reason, but navigating in composition is a real pain when you have 30+ layers