At least put the After Effects UI in its own thread. There's no reason why loading a preview for complex composition should compromise my ability to uncheck the layer's visibility boxes. If you don't know how to do it, ask anyone whose been developing for mobile for more than a year, they can teach everyone at Adobe how to put UI in its own thread. It would really make After Effects a lot less frustrating. And for those of you suggesting that there's no incentive for Adobe to fix this, there are a few marginal customers out there. For example, I am a computer engineer at a startup who thought "Hey, I mostly do engineering, but maybe can make an explainer video for this startup in After Effects." The video turned out awesome, but the project took me so long (paid hourly) that I'm now forbidden to work on videos. They are taking away my Creative Suite subscription. I wish I'd used another software because I thought working on videos was fun.
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