• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Turning a specific effect on and off using a checkbox controller ?

  Posted by Lucas Piazzini on August 24, 2020 at 10:38 am

  Hi ! I know I can turn entire layers on and off with checkboxes, but to avoid having 36 adjustment layers, I wondered if there is any way control 1 effect visibility at a time, inside an adjustment layer containing multiple effects.

  Best regards

  Lucas Piazzini replied 5 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Filip Vandueren

  August 24, 2020 at 1:28 pm

  Every Effect has Compositing Options, which are only viewable in the timeline. (Because, Adobe reasons… it’s an effects setting, why on earth would they put that in the effects window :-/ )

  There you’ll find an effect opacity that can just as simply be controlled by a checkbox as a layer’s opacity.
  The effect might still take processing time when at 0 though, it’s just not “mixed in”
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  Lucas Piazzini

  August 25, 2020 at 6:14 pm

  Thank you so much ! Really nothing else to say than THANK, YOU.

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