Keep audio and video layers linked in AE

Hi!
Is there any way to keep the audio layers linked to the corresponding video layers in AE so that the audio will automatically follow when ever I move a video layer?
Thank you in advance!

Thanks for your reply!
That's a bit disappointing though, since precomping individually tens of videolayers pasted from premiere will take a lot of time. It would be a nice feature for AE if you could tell audio layers to follow videolayers automatically. Actually when you think of it, it would be a great feature for any kind of layer: to be able to link two layers together so that moving the other in time will move the other also! Ah, and this brings me to another thing that I have been missing for a long time: the ability to group layers on a timeline in to folders for easy management (my comps have sometimes hundreds of layers and it would be very nice if I could organize them with folders, just like in Photoshop)!
What do you guys think? Is there any other way to accomplish these things? Could there be any expressions that might come to rescue?

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Tom Wolsky wrote:
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shooternz wrote:
Not sure how other NLES manage it but I think it would be a pain if audio automatically followed video in this respect. eg Blocked layers b'cos something is already there.
FCP &, and earlier behaved that way. I prefer the way Premiere Pro does it. You often do not need to move the audio to a different track when you move video to another track. I want to control the placement of audio and video separately now.
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Here is a link to a document to assist you with updating.Updating Windows 8 to 8.1. Please let me know the outcome.
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