Is it possible to temporarily disable parenting for a layer in After Effects? I want to move a parent to a new location but don't want the children moving with it. Once in the new position I'd then re-enable parenting so the children follow again. This is just for utility, not animation so I don't need it to be keyable.
I know I can manually disconnect but it's a lot of layers that in turn are parents to other children so it's not as easy as Selecting Children and choosing None because then it's un-parenting everything down the chain.
Like in Softimage with Child Transform Compensation.
Thanks,
Marc