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  besides “shy” can I group in folders?

  Posted by Nelson May on October 8, 2009 at 6:13 pm

  I am doing some billboards with a lot of text into and I have about 42 layers with all me elements in my timeline window. Besides shy, is there a way to group “common” text or graphic elements together so I am not so confused and have so much clutter?

  Cheers.

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  Todd Kopriva replied 16 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Todd Kopriva

  October 8, 2009 at 9:00 pm

  You can use color labels to help with this. See “Color labels for layers and footage items”.

  Careful naming of layers combined with the ability to filter in the Timeline panel can really help, too.

  Even more snazzy is Zorro, a script that allows you to tag layers and then filter by the tags (and much more):
  https://aescripts.com/zorro-the-layer-tagger/

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