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.
Let us group objects, groups are not nessesary to be interactive, if that's impossible for some reason, but navigating in composition is a real pain when you have 30+ layers
I'm suggesting this idea for years. It would be really helpful! Adobe hear us please! When you have a lot of layers project become hard to organize (keep clear) and precomps and quite drastical change which creates new comp (make project panel less organize), break all scripts etc. please give us GROUPS!
Yes and yes. Would be a huge + when timelines has tons of layers. Currently i use the shy button to hide layers, but having the option to select layers you want to hide, but keep in the comp, and hit ctrl G to bring them all under a single layer would be great. without losing all the blending modes.
Really really need this. I use shape layers a lot, and shapes can be grouped within individual shape layers, so why not in the timeline generally? Even if it had no function beyond just organising huge project a bit better. Frankly it's kinda ridiculous that they don't have this feature in AE, especially when it's in literally every other programme.
Agreed. I think of precomps as being like smart objects in Photoshop. If I had to make a smart object every time I wanted to group things together, that would be a nightmare. Often I want to group layers while still maintaining the visual context of the larger comp. This is not possible with a precomp. The only other option is to have an endless scroll of layers. Shy guy arguably helps with this, but I have yet to find a particularly productive way to use it in my workflow.
What would be great is if you could create folders inside layer panel...so you can group together layers...and obviously name the folders etc. making it easier to work with folders rather than stacks of coloured layers.
It would be great if you could make group layers work - For example I want to use a group of layers as a displacement map in my video, but I'd rather not use precompose and have to enter the precompose group and switch back and forth to edit stuff. The new master settings based on essential graphics is a good step, but it would be great if groups like dropdown folders could be added, and be made visible as a layer that can be used for displacement maps, alpha mattes and more off the bat. Also, precomposing breaks parent links if you have stuff parented and synced inside and outside a precomp, if groups worked instead that'll be much cleaner and faster.
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