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Participant
March 28, 2025
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Graph-view to track the Essential Properties

  • March 28, 2025
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Using Essential Properties is amazing, but sometimes it gets confusing to see where all of the controls pipe. 

Feature request for a high-level view of being able to see Comps, control names, and where they're all connected to would be much appreciated. Often times, I come back to projects a few weeks or months after the fact and simply can't remember how I made something work. 

This would be a great visual to at least see what is driving everything and trace it back to the source. 
Additionally, everyone keeps asking about nodes in AE.. but this feels like a way where you could visually and somewhat easily plug controls upstream into various comps depending on needs of the project or logical choke-points for the controls.

Right now, while the Essential Properties Panel is great, its also slow to navigate, find something, reveal where it is in the timeline, disconnect it / delete the control.  

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Participant
March 31, 2025

Very familar with it! This is what I would love for Essential Properties. But not just a view. Actually being able to pipe from one to another. 

_nicdean
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 31, 2025

@ElectricMayhem2are you familiar with the Composition Flowchart? That is built in to AE.

 

 

I agree that a flowchart view just for Essential Properties would be helpful.