Folders in After Effects timeline

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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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Asintoto

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Ps has it. Ai has it. InD (your other composition buddy) has it. Please give us a way to organize other than precomposing, please.

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Levi5E8C

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Please add this. Why are Adobe products which are industry standard so broken?

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k.a.r.l.2000

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Hey everybody, give Cavalry a try to see what a folder-filled life could be like. It's sort of like what Figma or Sketch is to Illustrator but for After Effects. Not a full replacement but in the right cases really powerful and productive, and did i mention it has layer folders?

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default4gx6ypok61h5

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For the love of God, this question is from 2019 and summer of 2021 we still don't have this simple fix. Really hoping Adobe can address this.

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ianpugman

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Agreed - why is this absent from After Effects?

I just want to organize my layers without doing precomposition/merging/whatever.

anthonys15912007

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It's kind of a no brainer, like 15 years ago. 😕😕

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jfjuk

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To be honest I’d happily pay for a plug-in to enable this.

Obviously I shouldn’t have to, but it would revolutionise my workflow.

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Jaapnauta

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Indeed a quick improvement of the application. And that would really be something, if adobe actually listened to the users that already pay the subscription. I do not hope that Adobe will fulfill this improvement like they do in illustrator. To edit curves other than like 30 years ago you have pay for a plugin...