Folders in After Effects timeline

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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.

Compositing and VFX

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Rafael12345

Inspiring

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

Known Participant

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

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Nick2049

Inspiring

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

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Jaapnauta

Known Participant

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

Known Participant

How is this not a thing yet

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Naveinthiran Kulaendran

Participant

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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Harmonious_Cosmos5C36

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I'd like to create a bin inside my working composition. That way I could keep things organized without precomposing, which is more time-consuming. I would like to have a bin which would open bellow, not in another tab or window. It would work similarly as a layer tab in Adobe Illustrator.
Please make that future available it would save me so much time while working. I also don't it is hard to implement it.