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Sterphy
Sterphy
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September 28, 2022
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Folders in After Effects timeline

  • September 28, 2022
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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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    freddyl45346098
    freddyl45346098
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    August 14, 2023

    I'm sorry Dacia, but Essential Properties doesn't help AT ALL. There's nothing to do with what we're asking here. We just want to be able to organize layers in a easier way without having to have a million precomps to navigate. Just like Photoshop.

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      Poul_G17152734
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      August 9, 2023

      Adobe we need this... I'm tired of precomps for the only reason of having an overview of my project...

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        Poul_G17152734
        Known Participant
        August 8, 2023

        Please make this happen Adobe - would be such a nice feature!
        Please upvote lets make it happen! 🙂

         

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          Remc
          Participating Frequently
          March 7, 2023

          Someone call Rick Astley!

            Rafael12345
            Rafael12345
            Inspiring
            February 24, 2023

            This would be the single biggest thing that could be done to improve my experience of using After Effects.

            I'm sure it would be the same for a lot of people, especially neuro-divergent folks with ADHD etc. Having things buried in precomps heavily increases the mental burden of using the software.  

              llealloo
              llealloo
              Known Participant
              February 23, 2023

              This is like the holy grail of requested UI features for AE

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                Nick2049
                Inspiring
                February 23, 2023

                Yeah, basic folders just for organisation and improved UI please.

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                  Jaapnauta
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                  September 28, 2022
                  Somehow, the basic elementary digital concept of objects and their hiearchy, with originals in a library, and referenced instances is too difficult for Adobe to implement in any GUI...
                    kirynp57461627
                    kirynp57461627
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                    September 28, 2022
                    How is this not a thing yet
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                      Naveinthiran Kulaendran
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                      September 28, 2022
                      Instead of us grouping them into a composition, you may give us the option to group them like how we group objects (in Adobe XD for example) and layers together, and then if we duplicated them and use the second duplicated group to do other animations or changes, it wouldn't affect the first group together.
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