After Effects: How To Use Effect Manager

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Adobe After Effects CC 2023: How To Use Effect Manager

**Description:
**This tutorial will show you how to use the new Effect Manage in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 to identify effects that cause After Effects to trash and to enable and disable effects.

**After Effects Version Required:
**23.4.0 or later
Learn More About The Effect Manager:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/effect-manager.html

The Effect Manager:

1. If After Effects crashes, when you re-open, the Effects Manager will identify the effect(s) that may have caused the crash.
2. Enable or Disable Effects
3. View A List of All Effects (including 3rd part effects)

**Chapters:
**00:00 Intro: About This Tutorial
00:10 What is the Effect Manager?
00:31 AE Version Required (23.4.0 or later)
00:37 How To Open Effect Manager (4 different ways)
01:02 Effect Manager: Identify ‘Crash’ Effects
01:30 Effects Manager: List All Fonts
01:44 Effect Manager Tour
02:10 How To Enable or Disable Effects
02:42 Restart After Effects
02:54 How To ‘Re-Enable’ Effects
03:14 Enable All & Disable All

**Software Used:
**Adobe After Effects CC 2023 (Click To Try or Buy)

How To Use The Effect Manager:

1. Go to the top Menu
2. Click on ‘Effect’
3. Click on ‘Manage Effects’
4. Untick the box ‘Show Only 3rd Party Effects’ to see all effects
5. Untick the ‘Enable Box to Disable Effects’
6. Click ‘Enable All’ or ‘Disable All’ to select or deselect all
7. Click ‘OK’ after enabling or disabling effects
8. Click ‘OK’
9. Quit After Effects
10. Re-open After Effects for changes to take effect.