Obsessive Layers 2

Obsessive Layers has been discontinued, please check out Fresh Trim for all your obsessive trimming needs.

Obsessive Layers 2 license owners can crossgrade to Fresh Trim for a discount.

 

 

Trim your layers by a variety of methods - keyframes, mattes, markers, parenting, selection, visibility, and composition bounds.

Availability:

Discontinued

Description

Obsessive Layers has been discontinued, please check out Fresh Trim for all your obsessive trimming needs.

Obsessive Layers 2 license owners can crossgrade to Fresh Trim for a discount.

Obsessive Layers:

Use Obsessive Layers to quickly and easly trim the in, out, or both points of selected layers in a variety of ways. Trim methods include trimming by keyframes, markers, mattes, parent chains, selected layers, and visibility. Don't see a trim method that you think is useful? Let us know! We are always expanding the trim methods available through Obsessive Layers. Obsessive Layers works as standard dockable panel or any script launcher such as KBar.

Obsessive Features:

  • Trim to Keyframes - Trim to the first, last, or both keyframes. If no layers are selected, all will be trimmed. Hold ALT to invert the selection.
  • Trim to Markers - Trim to the the first, last, or both markers. If no layers are selected, all will be trimmed. Hold ALT to invert the selection.
  • Trim to Matte - Trim layer to track mattes. Hold the ALT key to trim track mattes to layers.
  • Trim to Parent - Trim layer to immediate parent. Hold the ALT key to trim up the parent chain.
  • Trim to Children - Trim layer to immediate children. Hold the ALT key to trim down the parent chain. Only 1 layer can be selected.
  • Trim to Selected - Trim layers to the first selected layer. Hold the ALT key to trim layers to the last selected layer.
  • Trim to Visibility - Trim layers to 0% opacity keyframes. Hold the ALT key to trim layers to 0% scale keyframes.
  • Trim to Comp (2D) - Trim layers to within the composition bounds (2d layers only ignoring cameras)

"So simple but super useful. I like!" - Paul Slemmer, VeracityColab
"This is absolutely amazing! You guys did an amazing job! I'm seriously in love with it." - Michael Struble, Freelance

"Obsessive Layers for After Effects is the Drawing Room’s tool for managing the length of the layers in your project. It’s a handy organization tool to trim many layers efficiently with a variety of methods. A new update to Obsessive Layers adds even more ways to trim layers.

The latest version adds the ability to trim to a designated selection. You can also trim layers to visibility, which looks at the “zero” percent keyframes of a layer and automatically cuts that selection accordingly.

Another great addition is the ability to use Obsessive Layers with tool-bar launchers such as FT-Toolbar or Kbar. The Ae tool now comes with SVG icons that you can use in your toolbar."

- Product review on Lester Banks

Upgrade notice: If you purchased Obsessive Layers 1, you can upgrade to Obsessive Layers 2 for free . To upgrade, simply login to the same account as your original purchase and add this version to the cart for free. If you have any questions or need any assistance upgrading please open a support request.

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Version History

2.2.2-2 -

Mar 10, 2022

[feature] Updated licensing

[feature] Updated settings window

[feature] Updated help window

2.2.2 -

Mar 3, 2022

[feature] Updated licensing

[feature] Updated settings window

[feature] Updated help window

2.2.1 -

Dec 6, 2019

[feature] Icon buttons are back

[bug] Trim to Selection trims end frames correctly

[bug] Trim to Comp 2D behaves better and fails more gracefully

2.2 -

Sep 17, 2019

[feature] macOS Catalina compatible

[feature] Single file with argument for KBar

2.1.8 -

Jan 24, 2018

[feature] Trim to Selected

[feature] Trim to Visibility

[feature] Icon images

[feature] Headless scripts

2.0 -

Aug 1, 2016

[feature] Trim to Markers will trim layers to their markers

[feature] Trim to Children will trim to immediate children or follow down the parent chain

[feature] Trim to Parent will trim to immediate parent or follow up the parent chain

[feature] Updated Settings user interface

[feature] Obsessive Layers will remember your latest settings

[feature] Show or hide buttons that you don’t need to use

[feature] Toggle between graphic buttons or text buttons

[feature] Use color or grayscale icons for graphic buttons

[feature] Pad layer out point with an additional frame

[feature] Fix a trim conflict when points overlap

[feature] Actually shift a precomp instead of just trimming the in point

[bug] Trim to Keyframes now correctly ignores layer markers

[bug] Trim to Matte now correctly trims to matte or visa versa

Compatibility

After Effects

2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC

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Updated: Oct 21, 2025 1:35 AM