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Working with big timelines

Filter lanes, expand and collapse groups, and stay fast in scenes with hundreds of layers.

The timeline stays fast in big scenes: it only builds the lanes you can see, and handles up to 2,000 lanes. Past that, it shows the first 2,000 and says “Showing the first 2000 of … lanes — filter to narrow the list”.

Filter

The filter bar appears in the timeline header once a scene has more than eight layers (or while a filter is set).

  1. Click Filter by name or kind in the timeline header.
  2. Type part of a layer name, or a kind like kind:path, kind:text or kind:instance.
  3. Only matching lanes are shown, with a count like “12 of 400”. Click the clear button or press esc to see everything again.

Expand and collapse

  • Use Expand all groups and Collapse all groups in the filter bar to open or close every group at once.
  • Right-click a lane for Expand All Groups or Collapse All Groups, or Expand Group / Collapse Group on a group.
  • Select a layer on the stage and the timeline scrolls to its lane, opening its groups.
Filtering a large timeline

Organize with color labels

Right-click a lane → Label and pick Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink or Gray (or None). Labels are just for you; the AI keeps them.