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If you feel like you might be tempted in the future to slip into a disorganized VFX workflow, here are three considerations that will hopefully drive you to make strides towards a more organized VFX environment. You know yourself better than anyone, and you know what habits you need to work on.

This is a great way to minimize a cluttered project, but make absolutely certain you don’t need those files that will be deleted. Once you run the “Reduce Project” command, it will delete all the files not associated with the folders and comps you’ve selected, while retaining all assets that are called on within those selections.

Reduce Project - For this action, you’ll select the folders and comps you want to keep in your project.

Remove Unused Footage - Three guesses what this function does! It simply takes out any unused assets from your project, so you never have to worry whether or not your file was linked to a comp somewhere in your project.

The “ Consolidate All Footage” function lets you remove duplicate assets within your project with a simple click, and can save you a lot of hair-pulling. Before you know it, these duplicates can get spread across multiple comps, and can become visually distressing.

Consolidate All Footage - When you’re whittling away at your VFX masterpiece, it’s far too easy to accidentally import duplicates of other assets.

Just go to File>Dependencies, and you’ll uncover the following actions. Fortunately, After Effects has some very valuable functions under the Dependencies submenu that can help you take control of your project’s organization. Even if you’ve used After Effects for a ton of projects, there still may be features hidden in menus you’ve glossed over and not taken advantage of.