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Chloé Wibaux
Chloé Wibaux
Participating Frequently
May 24, 2017
Question

Delete Custom Effect

  • May 24, 2017
  • 3 replies
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I have created various custom animations, and they are now showing under the "Custom" item of my list of effects.

How can I delete those? I am unable to.

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Thanks,

Chloé

Moderator: I changed the title, because you are talking about custom effects.

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C
Cattel
Participating Frequently
June 5, 2020

I´m here just to drop a cathartic opinion, because I'm trying some animated interactives without javascript and this issue with custom effects added to the erratic behaviour with the init/end of the trajectories and the impossibility of set trajectories in pixels makes this feature almost useless. It´s a pitty.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 5, 2020

You can create very accurate custom motion paths in two ways:

  • by using guides and shte snap to guide option
  • by editing the XML file which defines the effect.
paulp95261428
paulp95261428
Participating Frequently
July 18, 2019

I came across this issue yesterday in 11.5 . Adobe really poor programming .

Basic workflow requirements - Create, Edit, Delete. Ensure that you have these options available for everything.

I now have a list of Custom animation effects FyIn, Flyin(472648726487), Flyin (12457132598) etc. and no way to remove them.

Clearly to get over this I need to create the requirement in another project, import into proper project and prey it does not require editing.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
July 18, 2019

They only are in that project, not in a new project you start.


When I am testing effects, I save them over older, not good functioning effects with the same name. To keep effects list clean in the present project.  Did you really need all those Flyin effects in that project, or were some just first tests?

paulp95261428
paulp95261428
Participating Frequently
July 19, 2019

Thanks for the reply.

They were tests carried out in the real project. I was unaware of the serious limitation - not being able to delete them.

Moving forwards I'll save a copy and get them working first.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
May 24, 2017

You will not be able to get rid of them in the project where you created the custom effect. Where did you store the effect?

Chloé Wibaux
Chloé WibauxAuthor
Participating Frequently
May 25, 2017

I saved it somewhere on my computer... So there is no way to get rid of them nor modify an existing one? Is that right? That's not practical at all...

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