Reduce Your After Effects Project Without Breaking It: Meet Filmit Reducer

If you’ve ever tried using After Effects’ built-in Reduce Project function and ended up nuking something important—like your color controller setup—you’re not alone.

Yes, After Effects can technically reduce unused items from your project, but it often does it blindly. Expression-driven layers? Gone. Custom controller comps? Deleted. Suddenly, your streamlined project is missing the brains that hold it all together.