After Effects: Better Organization with GM FoldLayers

Goodmotion gives After Effects the ability to organize layers in compositions better. The GM FoldLayers plug-in provides users with collapsible groups for this purpose.
Video editing timeline with layers in software

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Goodmotion worked on a solution to equip After Effects with a better organizational function. According to Goodmotion, the plug-in, which is still being worked on in part, is intended to give users the freedom to create groups that can be collapsed, in order to bypass conventional pre-comps and ensure greater clarity. Thus, in larger projects, instead of hundreds of pre-comps there are groups that can be expanded as required.

The helpful plug-in is currently available only as a beta for Mac OS X, but is also expected to be offered for Windows soon. The Mac OS X version can be downloaded directly ->here<-. 

The short introductory video shows the plug-in in use:

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