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.
I'd like to create a bin inside my working composition. That way I could keep things organized without precomposing, which is more time-consuming. I would like to have a bin which would open bellow, not in another tab or window. It would work similarly as a layer tab in Adobe Illustrator. Please make that future available it would save me so much time while working. I also don't it is hard to implement it.
Instead of us grouping them into a composition, you may give us the option to group them like how we group objects (in Adobe XD for example) and layers together, and then if we duplicated them and use the second duplicated group to do other animations or changes, it wouldn't affect the first group together.
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...
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.
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.
After Effects is the only Adobe app with no direct equal, so if Adobe can't make money from it then they're as bad at business as they are at developing apps. For all its faults, AE is literally the only reason I have a CC subscription
Hey, Adobe: We've decided that we DON'T want folders now. Ok? So whatever you do, please do not add folders to After Effects. Thank you!
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We've spent years asking for folders in After Effects, to no avail. But we've never tried asking NOT to have folders! Maybe that's the key we've been missing this whole time! It's classic reverse psychology!!!
Oh gee, you know the ONE thing I would really hate for Adobe to do right now is add timeline folders. I persnoally HATE basic functionality, it would really make me reconsider continuing my subscription to CC if they did this 😉
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