Folders in After Effects timeline

[Sterphy]

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.

[DaciaSaenz]

Y'all... we all want folders. We have your requests. And we have no new news. And if we did have news, we wouldn't be able to share it until the feature was public. 

@Sterphy, what do you want us to respond in the meantime?  A lot of the people in this thread responding to you are individual contributors on this team. We're doing our best to advocate for features that we know users want, including folders in the timeline. 

The fight continues. 

[mr3746448219o4]

What are you Adobe? A secret society that hides its plans from the public? Come on, lots of software companies do upcoming feature lists the are working on. You are not a secret society, you are a public company.

What are you fighting with? You are a biltiondollar company that could do such feature in no time. Why do we have to ask so many times for such useful and requested feature?

[jfjuk]

Companies can often hold back on publicising breakthrough features they have yet to launch.  This, however, is NOT a breakthrough feature.  It's the utter lack of recognition that this feature has been requested time and time again, as if it's something so niche that it's irrelevant to most users.  It is certainly NOT irrelevant.

[Sterphy]

Well then who is saying no? The person who made workflower did it on their own, and a whole team can't manage it?  What I *want* you to respond is "yes, we are implementing this basic feature instead of some buggy new thing that nobody asked for, and you can expect it..."

I'm forced to use AE because of my job, but if I wasn't I'd never use it again.  When a genuine competing product comes along AE is toast 

[llealloo]

Pretty please with a cherry on top!

[motionben]

C'mon guys, they're doing their best! They're only the worlds 88th most valuable company! Give them a break!!!

[Sterphy]

I think they've secretly found a way to monetise stress, anger and disappointement. It's the only logical answer. 

[dougi_in_the_UK]

Honestly, the sooner I can move away from Adobe the better.  They just don't give a ****, as is illustrated by this thread being so well supported and so little listened to.  We're not talking about a hard to build feature here.  This is very basic stuff.

After Effects is the only reason I still pay the subscription.  I've found alternatives for pretty much everything else that are free and do a good enough job for what I need.

[llealloo]

I would be just as happy to see them build an entirely new node based composition type where you could nest layered comps or other node based comps inside it, with the ability to feed master properties through nodes. That would crush

[Sterphy]

It's crazy! I'm in the same position because AE is the only app without a much better alternative, yet it's seemingly the one they put the least effort into.

[melbendi]

Maybe that's why 😉

[Carefree_Dolphin157F]

There's a script that does this called Free Compose (aescripts.com/free-compose) ... has a few other cool and useful features too, lets you select layers directly in the comp, and more.

[Sterphy]

Their lack of communication with users is absolutely shocking