Stacker

Organizes layers to the bottom, top, left, or right sides while providing options for layer alignment, fixed starting position, Keyframes, and more. Try it for free and experience the benefits of efficient layer management in your workflow.

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Description

Features

- Compact and Responsive Window (Works horizontally and vertically)
- Alignment Options
- Scale and Anchor points are supported
- Pixel perfect placing
- Compositions Sorting (Manages and re-numbers them)
- Supports custom starting point and spacing
- Connects all layers to a controller
- Supports Keyframes
- Hotkeys to improve productivity
- Save / Save as / Load settings (on other Machine or AE version)
- Ignore Parent's Scale and Rotation

Horizontal Vertical

User Interface Preview

UI

Tutorial

Latest Updates

New in 1.3.5:
Layer Scale Support
Save / Save as / Load settings (on other Machine or AE version)
Initiate and AE Functions progress
Added hotkeys you can set
Added Ignore Parent's rotation
Added Connect Layers opacity
Updated Documentation
Fixes And Optimization

New in 1.0.6:
Keyframes handling
Hotkeys within Settings dialog - Positioning (A), Organize (S), Composition (D), Hotkeys (F)
Added "H" Hotkey for help within the main stacker window

Known Bugs

Text Effectors
Transform - Anchor Point - Scale

Shape Properties
Transform - Anchor Point - Scale

Transform Effect
Transform - Anchor Point - Scale

Field Update
After inputting the value and clicking outside of the UI Window, it will keep the field hanging - the value won't be updated.

Hotkeys
Clicking on Horizontal Tabs (Hotkeys tabs) disables hotkeys ("Tabs" And "Up" and "Down" hotkeys) Clicking on Vertical Tabs disables "Left" and "Right" hotkeys for the Hotkeys tabs

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Version History

1.3.5 -

Oct 28, 2024

+ (NEW) Initiate Script:

- Pre-loads all text Messages

- Sets Settings

+ Progress Bar

- Pre-load

- Reset

- Save

- Load

- AE Functions Progress

+ New Layout and Design.

+ Settings are auto-saved.

- Below ae v12 saved to the data file.

- Save and Load paths are saved (NOT FOR MAC)!

- Tabs are saved.

* NOTE: Settings aren't transferred between After Effects versions.

* TIP: You can save and load when you move to a new version.

+ Added Load and save options (Move settings between computers (PC and Mac)).

+ Added reset functionality.

+ Major Functionality fixes.

+ Scale is supported.

+ Added Ignore Parent's Rotation

+ Added Connect to Parent's Opacity (If Create Null is on - adjusts Null's opacity to 100)

+ Organize checkbox replaced by "Move Layers to the Top"

+ Added Anchor point option for Fixed X And Y Positions.

+ Parents and Scale Expression Fix - If layer is parented or has an expression - Script will un-parent and remove scale expression (related to parent) to re-apply stacker.

+ Sort Compositions:

- Lighter sorting

- Above 10 Compositions - Confirm Dialog to Trim all others will pop-up

+ AE v25.0+

- Question icon alignment fix.

- Line starts with checkbox - checkbox is sliced fix.

+ Hotkeys:

- Added hotkeys you can set.

- "LEFT" AND "RIGHT" Arrow Keys change between tabs.

- Added hotkeys for helper UI ("I").

- MAC Hotkeys Support.

- MAC Fixes And Adjustments.

+ Tooltips:

- Added minimum values.

- Added maximum values.

- Added Rules

- Added tooltips to checkboxes.

- Updated Content.

+ Success, Warning and Error dialog improvements.

+ Confirmation Dialogs for reset and load.

+ Updated Documentation.

1.0.6 -

Jun 24, 2023

▪ New in V 1.0.6:

- Keyframes CTI Feature:

+ When no keyframes are selected:

* Current Time Indicator matches keyframe's time: Stacker will adjust Position and select keyframe.

* Current Time Indicator DOESN'T match the keyframe's time: Stacker will warn that no keyframes are selected.

- FIX: Fixed Position for shape layers (Bottom to Top And Top To Bottom)

1.0.5 -

Jun 17, 2023

- (Fix) Keyframes

- Hotkeys within Settings dialog - Positioning (A), Organize (S), Composition (D), Hotkeys (F)

- Added "H" Hotkey for help within the main stacker window.

- Updated Documentation

- Fixes And Optimization

1.0.0 -

May 25, 2023

initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4, CS3