I don't know why, but in windows if you click on the AE icon in the taskbar while it is doing a slow save it seems to kick it into gear and saves right away. I find AE projects start to slow down once there are more than about 50 comps or a large amount of rotobrush. Anyway the above technique works for me. ... View more

thejohnnyluu makes a good point. That could be applied to much beyond MFR. In general changing things in preferences tends to be a real workflow brake. Any settings that can be kept out of the preferences UI ( which can be slow to operate) will generally speed up workflow.  My wishlist of things that could be changed with a keyboard shortcut without having to dig through and save preferences would inlude:   Video Preview - Mercury Transmit Audio Hardware changes - although this is much improved now 🙂 Default spacial interpretation to linear Sequence footage default framerate Off-topic I know, but thought I'd share. x   ... View more

This is sooooo awesome! I just got my Creative Cloud annual renewal notification email this morning and for the first time I feel good about it! Speculative preview is speeding me up so much! Multiframe rendering is x5 faster and now I can encode H264 with media encoder!   YES! ... View more

I've noticed using Bodymovin in a project with lots of compositions, say 30+ makes the plugin unstable. Reducing the number of comps in your project seems to make it work better and be less prone to crashes. ... View more

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Couldn't agree more. Really excited about what's coming down the pipe. RAM preview in particular is very exciting. -- t. 07879 625194 www.moley.tv This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. ... View more

Couldn't agree more. Really excited about what's coming down the pipe. RAM preview in particular is very exciting. -- t. 07879 625194 www.moley.tv This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. ... View more

Wow! This is THE feature as far as I'm concerned. I'm thrilled that this is becoming a reality for AE. Great job devs! It's also encouraging that user requests are being prioritised.   My Spec PC Windows 10 Home AMD Ryzen 5 3600 - 6 Cores 3.6 Ghz 32 GB Ram Nvidia GTX 1080ti  Seperate SSD for Cache   Benchmark - Single Frame Render: 18min 56s Multiframe 13min 59s   I noticed that it was rendering 6 frames concurrently for almost the whole job. Love it! Can't wait for this feature to make its way to RAM preview. Good Job Adobe!   ... View more

I think the best thing to do is download and install Affinity Designer. It costs the same as one months subscription to creative cloud for a perpetual licence and has a UI the makes some kind of sense. Affinity Designer - Professional graphic design software ... View more

Oh dear. Please accept my apologies Jane. I thought you were an Adobe employee. ... View more

I wrote I would also ask that Adobe don't add to my frustration by replying to this message by telling me I've posted it in the wrong part of their website. Adobe replied Great idea—be sure to fill out a feature request. You can copy and paste what you wrote here. I think this neatly encapsulates what you can expect from Adobe support and the lack of respect they have for their customers. ... View more

I have to completely agree with felipegrin. I'm sure he is not asking for specific answers about how to do the things he lists in his original post. He is drawing attention to the woeful user experience when trying to complete really simple tasks. I'm afraid saying Illustrator is powerful and thirty years old doesn't cut it. That's thirty years Adobe have had to get it right. Felipegrin's post adequately demonstrates they haven't. Let me offer another example. To be clear I'm am highlighting a problem rather than asking for specific instructions. Let say I have a colour I want to use in a creative clould library. I want to use it as a base colour for a gradient, maybe I'll fade up to slightly lighter at the top. Not sure yet, I'm designing something, so I want to experiment when I work. I haven't decided on what colours to use yet, you know, because I'm designing. So what's the workflow to tell Illustrator about the gradient. The user experience..... Select the object Set the fill colour to gradient Change the direction to vertical. (How often does anybody ever need a horizontal gradient?) The gradient is black and white, grayscale. Click the colour swatch on the gradient. Nothing happens Double click the tiny weeney colour swatch. A dialog opens with arbitrary swatch colours in it. None is the one I want. How do I pick the colour I want? Oh, I can't. So after much messing around I have to deselect my object. Double click the colour in the library panel Accept the dialog the pops up Open the swatch panel Click the tiny weeny new swatch icon Select my object Double click the tiny weeney swatch icon Choose my newly created swatch in the modal swatch dialog. OK now after fourteen steps I have one of the colours in my gradient. Now to make the second colour a subtle variation of my first chosen colour? Well now that is tricky. I have to deselect my object. Select the original colour in the swatch panel to load it into the fill colour, but of course it has to be with nothing else selected so as not to mess up the work I've already done it adding the first colour to the gradient. Double click the fill colour and choose my subtle colour variation in the colour mixer Go back to the swatch panel and click the teeny weeny new swatch button. The tiny new swatch is loaded into an arbitrary location in the swatch panel, so you have to watch carefully. If it is similar to any other colour you might have to do this again so you can be sure when you are picking the right one in a few steps time. Memorise the location of your new swatch in the swatch panel. Select your object again In the gradient panel double click the teeny weeny colour swatch. Retrieve the location of your subtle colour in the modal swatch dialog from your human memory. Click it. Now you have your gradient, but wait, I'm not sure about that second colour. I'd like to add more saturation. What to do? You guessed it folks. Go back to step 15. Would it be that hard for the user experience to be something like the following? Select that blue box Choose gradient as the fill type Oh wow! One of the gradient colours is the blue it started out as. That's helpful What about the second colour? Click the button for the second colour. A modal colour picker appears. Choose your color. Done I love Adobe products and use them all day every day. My work over the past twenty years has covered graphic design for print to visual effects for feature films. I've been using a host of creative software for a long time. The example above is just one of many that makes Illustrator extremely frustrating to use in comparison to almost any other creative software. Felipegrin is right. Adobe knows he's right. Adobe are realising fantastic updates all the time across the creative cloud range. There are so many klunky user experience bottlenecks in Illustrator, that I'm sure wouldn't be so tuff to fix. I would also ask that Adobe don't add to my frustration by replying to this message by telling me I've posted it in the wrong part of their website. ... View more