Free Compose v2.0

Free Compose v2.0

Primary Keyphrase: 图层分组管理脚本

Description:
Download Free Compose v2.0 for After Effects, a powerful layer management script that organizes your timeline like Photoshop’s layer groups without breaking expressions, parenting, or masks. This essential tool lets you collapse complex layer stacks into clean, foldable groups while maintaining full editability—eliminating the need for messy pre-compositions that break your workflow .

Groups layers like Photoshop, without breaking expressions, parenting, or cropping. Like a pre-compose you can toggle open in the same layer stack. New UI 2025!

Free Compose creates non-destructive groups directly in your current composition, preserving all pickwhip expressions, parent-child relationships, and track mattes perfectly . Expand groups to edit individual layers, then collapse them back to keep your timeline tidy. It’s the perfect solution for character rigging, complex UI animations, and team collaboration where timeline clarity matters .

Version 2.0 Key Features:

• Photoshop-Style Groups: Fold and unfold layer groups directly in the timeline—no pre-composing required
• Non-Destructive Workflow: Preserves all expressions, parenting links, masks, and track mattes exactly as they were
• 80% Smaller UI: Completely redesigned interface with 80% smaller footprint and all-new, clearer icons
• Three UI Layouts: Choose from Row, Column, or 2-up layouts in the help menu for flexible workspace integration
• Enhanced Group Controls: Toggle visibility/audibility, add effects to entire groups, mask groups while keeping layers accessible, duplicate groups, and nest groups
• Timeline Efficiency: Easily move grouped layers, extend time, and maintain clean organization without jumping between compositions
• Bug Fixes: Resolved issues with releasing sub-groups above track mattes and simultaneous group/sub-group releases
• Broad Compatibility: Works with After Effects 2025 down through CC 2018 on both Windows and Mac systems

Perfect For:

• Motion graphics artists managing complex character rigs with multiple limbs and controls
• UI/UX designers keeping timeline organized for multi-element interface animations
• Anyone tired of pre-composing only to break expressions and parenting
• Teams collaborating on projects who need clear, understandable timeline structures
• Animators who want Photoshop-style organization inside After Effects

System Requirements:

• Adobe After Effects 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018
• Windows 10/11 (64-bit) or macOS
• 4GB RAM minimum (8GB+ recommended)
• 1.4 MB available disk space
• Enable “Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network” in Preferences > Scripting & Expressions

Installation:

1. Copy Free Compose 2.0.jsxbin to your AE ScriptUI Panels folder:

• Windows: Adobe After Effects [version]\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels
• Mac: Applications/Adobe After Effects [version]/Scripts/ScriptUI Panels

1. Enable scripting access in Preferences
2. Access via Window menu > Free Compose 2.0

What can I do with Free Compose?

✅ Group layers like Photoshop

Select any layers and hit the ‘Make Group’ button. Hold alt if you don’t want layers parented.

✅ Expand/collapse groups

Show all the layers, or hold alt to show only a group’s nested group layers.

✅ Move groups in timeline

Move all your groups’ contained layers in the timeline just by moving the group.

✅ Doesn’t cut off layer content

Group things right in place, don’t worry about whether they’ll be cut off.

✅ Add FX by groups

Simply add or remove effects from a group layer and control from there. Nested groups’ effects are ordered accordingly.

✅ Mask groups, layers stay accessible

Easily mask a group’s layers by adding a mask to the group layer. Masks can be set to calculate before or after any effect. Layers are easily moved inside the mask like a track matte.

✅ Control Visibility & Audibility

Control the group layers’ visibility and audibility with prior state remembered.

✅ Time Stretch

Stretch the layers just by stretching the group.

✅ Duplicate Groups

Duplicate groups with one click.

✅ Easy anchor repositioning

By default, groups are parented logically at the layers’ average position. Change this at any time, even after animating.

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