Workflower User Guide
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  • Introduction
  • What's new in v2.5?
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  • Releases
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  • Compatibility
  • F.A.Q.
  • Known Bugs
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  • Main Functions
    • Main Menu
    • Shortcuts
    • Layout
    • Connections
    • Scripting API [Beta]
  • 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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  • Delete Layer / Clone / Group / Pre-Render
  • Deleting Regular Layers
  • Deleting Precomp Clones
  • Deleting Groups
  • Deleting or Unsetting Pre-Renders
  • Deleting Linked Masks
  • Ungroup Layers
  • Dissolve Group
  • Dissolve Project Item Folder

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  1. Group Functions

Delete, Ungroup and Dissolve Groups

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Delete Layer / Clone / Group / Pre-Render

Deletes regular layers, Precomp Clones, groups, or pre-renders (Win: Shift+FwdDel, Mac: Shift+Delete).

Select either a regular layer, a Precomp Clone layer, a group header, or a layer holding a pre-render and then execute Delete Layer / Clone / Group / Pre-Render.

Deleting Regular Layers

If you delete a regular layer that is contained in a Precomp Clone, it will remove the layer from the Precomp Clone as well.

If you delete a track matte layer, it will remove the track matte state from the layer below.

Otherwise, it is identical to AE's Delete when deleting regular layers.

Deleting Precomp Clones

If you delete a Precomp Clone, the function will also delete the clone comp item from the project window. If you would delete the Precomp Clone using AE's Delete, only the layer within the comp, not the clone comp itself would be deleted. Because of that, expression errors will appear since the expressions on the clone layers cannot reference the Precomp Clone anymore. That's why it is always advised to use Delete Layer / Clone / Group when deleting a Precomp Clone.

In case, unused clone comps already exist and expression errors accumulate, open up the settings, go to the Cloning tab and click Delete Unused Precomp Clones.

Deleting Groups

Just deleting all group layers individually still would leave the additional, shy'd layers from the group, so always use Delete Layer / Clone / Group to delete a group, or alternatively use Select Group and then use AE's Delete.

Deleting or Unsetting Pre-Renders

It will give you the option to either:

  • Unset the pre-render but keep the layer as well as the pre-render file on disk

  • Remove the layer but keep the pre-render file on disk

  • Remove the layer as well as remove the pre-render file on disk

Deleting Linked Masks

Ungroup Layers

Releases layers from a group, or a group from another group (Win+Mac: Shift+H).

All selected layers or groups will be ungrouped and moved below the group they were contained in. This is especially useful when the containing group is right at the bottom of another group. If you would move the layers below by yourself and then execute Refresh Layout, the layers would then be shifted two levels upwards instead of one. In these circumstances, use Ungroup instead to only move them one level upwards.

Dissolve Group

Dissolves a group (Win: Ctrl+Shift+FwdDel, Mac: no default shortcut).

Dissolve Project Item Folder

To access this feature, select your project item, then right-click on the Dissolve Group-button and choose Dissolve Project Item Folder.

As of , the function also deletes or unsets pre-renders. To do this, select the desired layers with pre-render and execute the function.

As of , when you execute Delete Layer / Clone / Group while having a mask selected, Workflower will remove the mask as well as all referencing the mask (and their corresponding effect).

Additionally, when you execute Delete Layer / Clone / Group while having a or its corresponding effect selected, Workflower will remove the Linked Mask as well as the effect.

Note for Mac users and when using on Windows: The default shortcut for this function has been added in .

As of , if a group at the highest level is selected, Ungroup Layers will move the entire group after the next group at the highest level.

(Removed in ->) If a group is selected and is at the highest level already, the group will be dissolved completely.

Select either the group header or a layer contained in the group and then execute Dissolve Group. It will remove the group but will not delete all contained layers, as would. It will release the layers one level upwards, either to a higher group or move them out of groups completely.

As of , you can dissolve your currently selected item folder in the project panel.

Delete Layer / Clone / Group
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Linked Masks
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Left: Layers in Sub-Group at the End of a higher Group; Center: Layers moved down and now appear two Levels upwards; Right: Layers moved using 'Ungroup Layers' and now appear one Level upwards
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