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  • Main Functions
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    • Layout
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  • Group Functions
    • Create and Duplicate Groups
    • Collapse and Select Groups
    • Delete, Ungroup and Dissolve Groups
    • Parent Group Layers
    • Disable, Solo and Lock Groups
    • Miscellaneous Group Functions
  • Layer Functions
    • Matting
    • Cloning
    • Adjustment Layers
    • Renaming
    • Relabeling
    • Storing Layers
    • Tagging Layers
    • Pre-Rendering
    • Precomposing
    • Miscellaneous Layer Functions
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  • Group Opacity
  • Layers respect Group In/Out Point
  • Known Group Opacity Bugs
  • Center Group Header
  • Relabel Group
  • Create Group Matte
  • Create Group Clone
  • Create Group Linked Adjustment Layer
  • Create Group Matted Adjustment Layer
  • Pre-Render Group
  • Convert Group to Precomp
  • Convert Precomp to Group
  • Order of Group Clones, Group Mattes, and Group Linked Adjustment Layers
  • Changing the Order of Group Elements

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  1. Group Functions

Miscellaneous Group Functions

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In addition to functions mentioned under this category, there are Group Functions that are either not available as an executable function itself, or that are a sub-function of a Layer Function:

Group Opacity

(Added in )

When you move layers into/out of the group, you need to execute Refresh Layout so that these attributes get added/removed to/from the layers.

If you disable the Group || Settings effect while using Group Opacity, the visibility of the whole group will be disabled.

Please be aware that Group Opacity will not look the same as changing the opacity on a precomp. Since Workflower will adjust the opacity of every layer individually, the opacities of layers that intersect will add up. For example, if the Group Opacity is 50% and two layers intersect, the resulting opacity on the intersected area will amount to 75%.

True 3D objects in AE's Advanced 3D renderer cannot contain effects. That's why Workflower cannot add a special opacity slider effect to those layers. So in case true 3D objects are within a group with group opacity, you can control the individual opacity of those layers by clicking on the value itself and modifying the property before the expression.

Layers respect Group In/Out Point

Additionally, you can also enable Layers respect Group In/Out. Using this option, all layers outside of the group header's in and out point won't be visible.

If your group layers have time-stretch enabled, the result might be off by a frame. (Maybe this is fixable in a future release.)

Known Group Opacity Bugs

Center Group Header

Centers a group header at the average position of the group layers' anchor points (Win: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+9, Mac: no default shortcut).

Select either a group header or a layer contained in a group and execute Center Group Header to move the group's header to the center of all layers. Note that this will only take the position at the current time into account.

When keyframes are on the Position property of the group header, they will be moved relative to the new position.

Relabel Group

Create Group Matte

Create Group Clone

Create Group Linked Adjustment Layer

Create Group Matted Adjustment Layer

Pre-Render Group

Convert Group to Precomp

Convert Precomp to Group

Order of Group Clones, Group Mattes, and Group Linked Adjustment Layers

The order of Group Clones, Group Mattes, and Group Linked Adjustment Layers is not customizable. Going from the top-most layer, it is always:

  1. Group Linked Adjustment Layer

  2. Group Matte

  3. Group Clone

Changing the Order of Group Elements

There are a few situations when you want the Group Matte and/or Group Linked Adjustment Layer to be contained the Group Clone. (If you want to reference a Group Clone by an effect, for example, and you want the matte to be baked into the clone already.) The solution to this is as follows:

Since sub-groups can contain their own Group Clones, Group Mattes, and/or Group Linked Adjustment Layers, you can create a sub-group that holds a Group Linked Adjustment Layer and/or Group Matte while the higher group holds a Group Clone.

As of , you have the ability to adjust the opacity of all group layers at once.

On the Group || Settings effect, enable Group Opacity and execute . Workflower will then add an expression to the opacity of the layers and it will add a special opacity slider effect to all group layers as it does with layers. Execute (Win: Alt+F1, Mac: Ctrl+3) to reveal the special opacity slider on each layer in the timeline. To reveal the Group Opacity slider on the Group || Settings effect in the timeline, you can execute Reveal Layer Opacity too.

Please note that Layers respect Group In/Out will disable of the group header to its contained layers.

(Added in )

To relabel an entire group, select either the group header or a layer contained in the group and execute .

To create a , execute while a group header is selected.

To create a , execute while a group header is selected.

To create a , execute while a group header is selected.

To create a , execute while a group header is selected.

To pre-render a group, execute while a group header is selected.

(Added in )

To , select the group header and execute .

(Added in )

To , select the precomp layer in your comp and execute .

This is because a Group Matte and/or Group Linked Adjustment Layer will have the same effect on top of the Group Clone as them being contained in there, so most of the time there is no reason for the order to be different, and the performance and layer/effect clarity is improved that way since matte layers and adjustment layer effects don't have to be copied to all group layers. (If you still want to change the order of these group elements, there is a .)

If you move the group elements around and execute on one of them, they will be reordered in the order described above.

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Reveal Layer Opacity
There are known Group Opacity bugs. Click here to read up on their descriptions as well as potential workarounds.
Relabel Layer/s
Group Clone
Clone and Precomp
version 1.1
version 1.1
version 1.1
version 1.1
Group Linked Adjustment Layer
Create Linked Adjustment Layer
Group Matted Adjustment Layer
Create Matted Adjustment Layer
Prime Clone
version 1.1
Refresh Layout
Automatic Trimming
Pre-Render
Group Effect with 'Group Opacity' enabled
Group Layer with revealed Opacity Slider
Order of Group Elements
Group Linked Adjustent Layer and Group Matte contained in a Group Clone
convert a group to a precomp
Precompose
convert a precomp to a group
Precompose
Group Matte
Create Matte
Refresh Connections