Delete or disable effects and animation presets, Remove an effect or animation preset – Adobe After Effects CS3 User Manual

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By default, when you apply an effect to a layer, the effect is active for the duration of the layer. However, you can make
an effect start and stop at specific times or make the effect more or less intense over time by using keyframes or
expressions or by applying the effect to an adjustment layer.

Animation presets are applied at the current time.

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.

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To delete one effect from a layer, select the effect name in the Effect Controls panel or Timeline panel, and press
Delete.

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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.

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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.

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To temporarily disable all effects on a layer, click the Effect switch

in the Switches column for the layer in the

Timeline panel.

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.

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.

Move the effect (.aex) or animation preset (.ffx) file out of the Plug-ins or Presets folder.