Yes, you heard right! Workflower lets you create groups of layers within your composition. Get ready to organize the hell out of your next project! But you can even do so much more than just creating groups.
Ever wondered why you can’t apply an adjustment layer only to certain layers? Well, me too. But wondering doesn’t apply an adjustment layer only to certain layers. Workflower does, on the other hand.
Apply Effects!
Workflower will create a layer, onto which you can apply your effects. It will then copy these effects with linked expressions to all previously selected layers.
Update!
If you add new effects, change the effects order, or link new layers to the adjustment layer, just hit Refresh to update all linked layers.
All linked up!
Visibility of effects is linked by expressions as well. Also, the adjustment layer’s opacity. Or its visibility, too. Magic! (Or just a simple expression. Probably rather the latter. I’m sad now. Say something nice to me.)
… and even more!
Use multiple adjustment layers. Convert properties of effects to comp size to account for different transforms of linked layers. Unlink all properties when you’re done working.
What’s New:
[ADDED]
If you separate position dimensions by default (introduced in AE 22.4), group headers as well as other Workflower layers will now separate dimensions too.
When you use ‘Store Layers’ and ‘Paste Stored Layers’, layer references in effects will now be retained.
[CHANGED]
When merging mattes, a matte layer with separated dimensions but otherwise unchanged transforms will now be added to the ‘Matte Merge’ directly and not be cloned.
When centering a group header, disabled layers as well as ‘Parent Exception Layers’ will now be ignored while averaging the position.
[FIXED]
Fixed a bug that prevented the check within ‘Refresh Layout’ whether ‘Group Adjustment Layers’ need to be refreshed to work in certain circumstances.
Fixed a bug that would prevent entire groups to be pasted using ‘Paste Stored Layers’.
Fixed a bug that would falsely parent a ‘Clone in Comp’, created from a layer with ‘Collapse Transformation’, within a parented group.
Fixed a bug that would not precompose a layer while leaving all attributes in the comp when the layer contained a sampleImage() expression.
