What's new in v2.5?
New Features in v2.5
Pre-Render Groups, Clones & More
After Workflower tackled After Effects' lacking organizational tools, one giant criticism always remained: 'But AE is soooo slow!!11!!1!' Well, now not anymore: Workflower v2.5 introduces a feature-rich pre-rendering system, catapulting AE's performance into the 21st century!!
Pre-render groups, layers, Precomp Clones as well as precomps, and experience an entirely new way of working in AE! Simply click Pre-Render and let Workflower handle all the annoying file management for you.
Also: Customize the hell out of it by setting up the render format, proxy, file path and even automatically enabling that dreaded Preserve RGB checkbox! Kaboom!
Sort Project Items
Do you love constantly dragging all your comp project items into that 'Comps' folder and all those footage items into that 'Footage' folder? If so, this feature ain't for you! But for everyone who hates cleaning as much as I do, there's now: Sort Project Items!
It'll sort your project items into:
Clones
Comps
Footage
Imported Projects
And for folks who see something special in some of their project items: You may exclude certain folders from sorting by setting their label to None. Sweeeeeet!
Link & Parent Masks
A long time ago, the After Effects Gods decreed that masks apply BEFORE the layer's transforms, so if you copy a mask from one layer to another with different transforms, the two masks align at the source but not in the viewer. Engraved deeply into AE’s source code, this law is eternal.
However, in a rebellious act of defiance, I’ve implemented a heretical feature: Workflower links a mask from one layer to another... with all transforms intact - no matter the layers' position, even on 3D layers. And since this is done via expressions, it all updates automatically. Oh, AE Gods, have mercy on my soul...
And for those audacious enough to challenge the divine even further, you can also easily parent a layers' mask: Execute Create Matte on it and Workflower will copy the mask to a new layer and link the old mask to the new mask, allowing you transform and parent it as only the devil himself would dare.
Show Layer Relationships
For years, layers have been carrying on secret affairs right under your nose. You thought you knew them - you trusted them. But every time you'd click into those effect controls, it was like finding cryptic texts on your partner's phone. 'Who is this other layer you're referencing? What do they mean to you?'
But now, with Layer Relationships, Workflower pulls back the curtain on all those clandestine connections. Every romance, every tangled web of dependencies, revealed with brutal honesty right on the timeline.
It might be painful to uncover the truth, but isn't it better to know? Discover who your layers have really been seeing behind your back - and take back control of your timeline!
Copy Layers across Projects
After Effects projects have always lived in isolation, each in its own little universe. But with Workflower's Global Store Comp, you can now defy the laws of AE physics, sending layers through the multiverse of projects.
It's like string theory, but for After Effects! Save layers into one of three Global Store Comp slots, jump into a new project, and summon them instantly. Turns out, AE universes were more intertwined than you ever imagined!
And more!
And yet, there's even more, for example:
Precompose with all expression references in your project updating to the new comp name
Create Downwards Clones (i.e. Precomp Clones grabbing all layers below)
Quickly create control layers (e.g. a null as parent to a layer, or a null to control a point property)
Full Changelog
For a full changelog, please click here!
Tutorial for v2.5 is Coming!
I’m currently tied up with other projects and haven’t had a chance to create a video tutorial yet, but I’ve heard your feedback, and it’s on my radar. While I can’t promise a timeline, I’ll do my best to get to it when I can.
In the meantime, please refer to the user guide for detailed instructions.
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