Well, there you go thinking AE would be logical. I suspect you're knowledgeable in many other applications, but somewhat new to AE. Get a good look at the user interface, and you'll come to realize that despite Adobe's best attempts to make it useful, it's still a kludge. If you know a little about AE's history -- some 20 years of it -- you'd know that many features have abeen attempted and have failed. For example, AE used to have the ability to import 3D objects... from Photohop? What's with that? AE's its own beast with eccentricities, quirks and non-sequiturs. It's great at what it does, it's just weird.
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