Love your stuff, Adobe. But when are you going to give AfterEffects the option to put layers inside of folders instead of pre-comps? It would help tremendously in keeping the timeline organized.
I think you're asking to have the ability to expand pre-comps in the same timeline. Pre-composing is not just an organizational tool, it's a way to re-order the rendering of the pixels in the frame so you can do things you couldn't do before.
No, I recognize expanding pre-comps would be impossible. I'm just asking to have some layers hidden away in a folder without having to scroll through 70 layers to find what I need on the timeline. Imagine if the Project Window didn't have folders. It'd be a nightmare.
Like "groups" in C4D? Very powerful organizational tool. I like Smoovies suggestion. I often end up precomposing just for grouping a bunch of related layers for the reasons cited by Smoovies. This adds unnecessary complexity to the Project panel
Before I request a new feature, I want to see how others solve this problem. My current system, which leaves a lot to be desired, is to create a text guide layer above the layers I want to group. I then "shy" the "grouped" layers. The text in the guide layer serves to document the underlying layers. Surely someone here has a better way.
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