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Delete or disable effects and animation presets
After you've applied effects to a layer, you can temporarily disable one or all the effects on the layer to concentrate
on another aspect of your composition. Effects that are disabled do not appear in the Composition panel and
typically are not included when the layer is previewed or rendered. However, in the Render Queue panel, you can
specify that the composition is rendered for final output with all effects on, regardless of which effects are rendered
for previews in the Composition panel. Disabling an effect does not delete the keyframes created for any of the effect
properties; all keyframes remain until the effect is deleted from the layer.
You can't disable an animation preset or delete it from a layer as a unit. You can, of course, individually delete or
disable the effects, keyframes, and expressions that it comprises.
• To delete one effect from a layer, select the effect name in the Effect Controls panel or Timeline panel, and press
Delete.
• To delete all effects from one or more layers, select the layers in the Timeline or Composition panel and choose
Effect > Remove All or press Ctrl+Shift+E (Windows) or Command+Shift+E (Mac OS).
Note: This command eliminates all keyframes for the deleted effects. If you choose Remove All accidentally, immediately
choose Edit > Undo Delete Effect to restore the effects and keyframes.
• To temporarily disable one effect, select the layer in the Effect Controls or Timeline panel, and then click the Effect
switch to the left of the effect name.
• To temporarily disable all effects on a layer, click the Effect switch
Timeline panel.
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Effect switch in the Effect Controls panel and Effect switch in the Timeline panel
A. The Effect switch in the Effect Controls panel turns a specific effect on or off. B. The Effect switch in the Timeline panel also turns a specific
effect on or off. C. The Effect switch in the Switches column of the Timeline panel turns all effects on a layer on or off.
Remove an effect or animation preset
You can remove an effect or animation preset from the folder in which After Effects searches for these items,
preventing it from being loaded and from being shown in the Effects & Presets panel or Effect menu.
1 Select the effect or animation preset in the Effects & Presets panel.
Choose Reveal In Explorer (Windows) or Reveal In Finder (Mac OS) from the panel menu.
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3 Move the effect (.aex) or animation preset (.ffx) file out of the Plug-ins or Presets folder.
Choose Refresh List from the Effects & Presets panel menu to update the list of animation presets in the panel.
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The list of effects is only updated when the application starts.
Rather than removing effects or animation presets entirely, consider creating a subfolder in the Plug-ins or Presets
folder for effects or animation presets that you seldom use. After Effects ignores the contents of folders with names
that begin and end with parentheses, such as (archive_folder).
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in the Switches column for the layer in the
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