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Siarhei5C6B
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November 30, 2022
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Remove unused layers

  • November 30, 2022
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Feature that find and delete hided muted layers, that not parenting any other and not involved anyhow or not mentioned in eny expression.

We have the Dependancies > Remove unused files feature which is really helpfull and great. But on the first stages of the big projects we have a lot of draft files. I just add some new draft and hide old one, just in case I whant to bring it back. I just add and hide again and again. Sometimes I parent something to some of this layers. And the same thing in all shots in whole project and it became a real mess. Its ok before I over the project and decide to archive it. That layers and footages will go to Collect and will take memory size for nothing.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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November 30, 2022

I think that's unrealistic. AE has no way of knowing what you want to do with your layers, since even hidden layers apparently have their uses for instance. You may still want to keep around some of them e.g. for versioning or language translations while wanting to remove others. Unless they would be somehow tagged or distinguishable by other criteria this would create a major logic conflict. I think you haven't really thought of that. This could quickly get people in trouble and to me such a function would pose more of a risk than it would be useful. If at all to me that sounds like a task for a scrip that someone might write or it already exists on AE scripts.com.

 

Mylenium 

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