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Hiding, showing, and rearranging columns

Hiding, showing, and rearranging columns - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering the Timeline

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Hiding, showing, and rearranging columns

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- As you work more and more inside the timeline you might decide that you want to change it's layout. After all, there are a lot of columns in the timeline and getting the ones that you need more so there visible and hiding the ones you don't need so they don't get in the way is pretty important. Now you'll notice that there are little elements here indicating splits. This means that each of these is a column. For example, I can drag here to make the label column more visible, or drag that smaller to hide it. You can also drag elements to a new position. For example, I moved the parent column up or back to the right. Not every element can be repositioned however. It's really after the layer name. If there's a column that's not visible that you need just right click and from the columns pop up you can enable it. For example, comments, and you see that becomes visible. I can then drag its position to the new desired location. However, as you add more columns, you'll notice that you have…

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