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Sterphy
Sterphy
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September 28, 2022
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Folders in After Effects timeline

  • 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.

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    azumbrunnen
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    March 4, 2024

    The most obvious request for the last 15 years. It's 2024 now and we still don't have groups

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      InfiniteWhale
      Known Participant
      December 1, 2023

      Adobe LOVES not listening to its users.  I think they're masochists first, a proper company second. 

        freddyl45346098
        freddyl45346098
        Participant
        August 14, 2023

        I'm sorry Dacia, but Essential Properties doesn't help AT ALL. There's nothing to do with what we're asking here. We just want to be able to organize layers in a easier way without having to have a million precomps to navigate. Just like Photoshop.

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          Poul_G17152734
          Known Participant
          August 9, 2023

          Adobe we need this... I'm tired of precomps for the only reason of having an overview of my project...

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            Poul_G17152734
            Known Participant
            August 8, 2023

            Please make this happen Adobe - would be such a nice feature!
            Please upvote lets make it happen! 🙂

             

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              Remc
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              March 7, 2023

              Someone call Rick Astley!

                Rafael12345
                Rafael12345
                Inspiring
                February 24, 2023

                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
                  llealloo
                  Known Participant
                  February 23, 2023

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

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                    Nick2049
                    Inspiring
                    February 23, 2023

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

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                      Jaapnauta
                      Known Participant
                      September 28, 2022
                      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...
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