Delete or disable effects and animation presets

After you’ve applied effects to a layer, you can temporarily disable one or all of the effects on the layer so that you can concentrate on another aspect of your composition. Effects that are disabled are not rendered, either for previews or for final output. However, in the Render Queue panel, you can specify that the composition is rendered for final output with all effects on, regardless of which effects are rendered for previews in the Composition panel. Disabling an effect does not delete the keyframes created for any of the effect properties; all keyframes remain until the effect is deleted from the layer.

You can’t disable an animation preset or delete it from a layer as a unit. You can, of course, individually delete or disable the effects, keyframes, and expressions that it comprises.

  • To delete one effect from a layer, select the effect name in the Effect Controls panel or Timeline panel, and press Delete.
  • To delete all effects from one or more layers, select the layers in the Timeline or Composition panel and choose Effect > Remove All or press Ctrl+Shift+E (Windows) or Command+Shift+E (Mac OS).
    Note: This command eliminates all keyframes for the deleted effects. If you choose Remove All accidentally, immediately choose Edit > Undo Delete Effect or Edit > Undo Remove All Effects to restore the effects and keyframes.
  • To temporarily disable one effect, select the layer in the Effect Controls or Timeline panel, and then click the Effect switch to the left of the effect name.
  • To temporarily disable all effects on a layer, click the Effect switch in the Switches column for the layer in the Timeline panel.
Effect switch in the Effect Controls panel and Effect switch in the Timeline panel

A.
The Effect switch in the Effect Controls panel turns a specific effect on or off.

B.
The Effect switch for an effect in the Timeline panel also turns a specific effect on or off.

C.
The Effect switch in the Switches column of the Timeline panel turns all effects on a layer on or off.