Adobe After Effects CS4 - Manual (Page 401)

395 USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Effects and animation presets
Last updated 12/21/2009
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 for an effect 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.
2 Choose Reveal In Windows Explorer (Windows) or Reveal In Finder (Mac OS) from the panel menu.
3 Move the effect (.aex) or animation preset (.ffx) file out of the Plug-ins or Presets folder.
4 Choose Refresh List from the Effects & Presets panel menu to update the list of animation presets in the panel.
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).
More Help topics
“ Delete or disable effects and animation presets ” on page 394
Effect control points
Some effects have effect control points, which determine how the effect affects the layer. For example, the Advanced
Lightning effect has two effect control points—Origin and Direction—which specify where the lightning begins and
in which direction it points.
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