After Effects

A simple feature that would make life easier in AE - when clicking the transparency grid option, allow me to toggle between black, white, and grid. I'm sometimes working with a white or black element and need a different bg for more contrast.  Thanks!

It is as simple as it sounds: why just don't add solid settings which now are within a separate window ("Layer - Solid settings" or Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Y) into corresponding layer's dropdown? It would be a lot simpler to access solid's color and size properties as well as keyframe them and add an ability to make gradient fill like it is in Photoshop. And of course, this feature will have a positive impact on the workflow of any user from a beginner to a professional.

It's great we can send HDR video to an HDR monitor, but we need a way to assign a color profile to a specific monitor

Burying the footage interpretation settings in a modal dialog makes adjusting interpretation settings too difficult when dealing with lots of footage items, particularly when each piece of footage needs its own pulldown removal settings. A non-modal panel would be a lot more efficient, since it would allow the user to frame through and play back footage in order to test settings without having to exit and re-enter the modal dialog after each change of the settings. The ability to apply individual interpretation settings to multiple selected footage items at once would be a great bonus. Some of this can be done via scripting, but to make such a script responsive to changes in the project selection requires scheduled task trickery that introduces its own problems.

Maybe this is an easy addition? Was hoping I could use something like [compComment] as part of a custom render file name template. I'd like to retain my internal comp naming system to navigate the project however I have to rename the exports with keynumbers. My current workaround is to copy the comp name to the Comment field for reference and rename the comp to the required keynumber for export.

It would be a life saver to have a footage orientation dropdown in the interpret footage menu. Because it saves time from having to precompose all my 90 degree recorded footage. Also from rotating my layers and screwing up referenced effects and such. Davinci Resolve has it as a clip attribute.0 90and -90 degree option.

A while back, I suggested for an Incremental Iterative Preview feature where a user may set a lower-than-comp-fps as the initial preview fps and AE would then increase the AE for each subsequent iterative preview, in the same preiew session, until full fps is met. This was to allow the user to get a good idea of the movement/layout/issues as early as quickly as possible.Here's another useful feature, IMO, Intelligent Precursive Preview - Current constructs are such that the user has to wait for AE to cache/create the entire playback range before providing a full framerate preview. So, a Intelligent Precursive Preview feature will look ahead (and back) to ascertain when it can start playback such that when playback is initiated, the user receives full framerate preview and continuous playback even at the uncached/un-rendered when Preview was initiated. So, the Preview Engine correctly estimates, or precursively estimates the time time it will take to prep the entire Previ

Dear Adobe Team,I would like to bring to your attention an issue that affects the proper display and use of Persian text in After Effects. Currently, when working with Persian text, After Effects uses Hindi digits (०, १, २, ३, etc.) instead of the proper Persian numerals (۰, ۱, ۲, ۳, etc.). This causes a typographic issue as Persian numerals are distinct from Hindi digits, both in appearance and usage.The Issue:After Effects does not recognize Persian numerals, and instead, uses Hindi digits by default.This misinterpretation of digits can lead to incorrect typesetting and visual inconsistencies for Persian-language users.While Hindi and Persian numerals may appear similar, they are different and used in different linguistic and cultural contexts.Proposed Solution:I propose that Adobe introduces proper support for Persian numerals in After Effects, ensuring that the application recognizes and correctly displays Persian digits (۰, ۱, ۲, ۳, etc.) when working with Persian text. This would

Hi, Despite the welcome addition of user choice to install Cinema4D alongside AE or not I keep getting frustrated by the fact that this gets asked every time you click the Update button. I'm running AE Beta next to the main release which gets frequent updates. Every time I need to turn that off to prevent a cinema install which I'm already managing myself with a normal Cinema license. It would be great to give us the option to always ignore this install request completely.

When rendering a project with particularly large files, the gpu can run out of memory, aborting the render and throwing the error attached below.I'd like to suggest a third option other than GPU Acceleration (CUDA) or Software Only exclisively where, should the render fail, GPU rendering falls back to software only upon error.  Acknowleging that the render quality may be slightly different, sometimes completing this render and queue as a whole is more important than ensuring parity.Error mentioned above:"After Effects has encountered a failure related to GPU-enabled effects on this frame. This is likely because your GPU is out of memory. Please decrease your rendering resolution, close applications that may be using GPU resources, or set this project to render effects using "Mercury Software Only" in File -> Project Settings -> Video Rendering and Effects. VR effects do not render using software only, and can require large amounts of GPU VRAM."

Why has Adobe after all these years not implemeted a text to path feature in After Effects. I have to jump through hoops everytime trying to remeber how this is done. The point is, its useed often and not brought in at any stage of updates. Ive been using AE for about 15 years, and we were doing text along a path then, why did AE go through iterations of CS1 - CS6, then on to creative cloud and never add in the feature. Its lazy. Its simple code that should be in the usr interface as a button. one clecik. I do not understand how people can be in fulltime employent and be so incompetent. Everybody in the creative community would say yes we need and use this feature. So why is it not there?

Hi there,in the Keyframe Velocity window there is the "Continuous (Lock Outgoing to Incomimg)" checkbox, which when clicked, copies the incoming speed of a keyframe to the outgoing speed, and locks them together.Every time i need to ease into a continuous motion, I find myself manually copying the outgoing speed to the ingoing before locking them. This can happen multiple times per work session.It would save me a lot of time to have a choice of locking direction - Incoming to Outgoing or vice versa.Thanks for reading!

I know it's super silly nitpicking, but has anyone noticed what reads on the dialogue when importing Jpegs? It says PNG Sequence, Illustrator/PDF/EPS Sequence & so on for the others, but for some reason reads "ImporterJpeg Sequence" when comes to Jpegs only. I always thought it was a bug, perhaps related to the French interface, but never changed for ages. Does anyone know the reason/story behind it? Cheers

Consider this:I have 3 text layers, two of which are linked to the "master" layer (via a simple "thisComp.layer("master").text.sourceText" expression).I then change the text on the master layer to be Paragraph Text and tweak the dimensions of  the bounding box. The other text layers do not update to reflect this. I suggest they should do.Or is there a way, using text attributes in an expression, to copy the paragraph layout?

I would like the option to remove frame numbers from exports. When I export a single frame PNG I can use the 'Output To:' function but it doesn't give me the option to remove the five digit frame number. I'm aware of 'Snapshot' 'Save Frame As' and plugins like Gifgun and AEJuice export GIF but I am exporting 200+ comps at a time and need to use the render queue and automation processes. Using a bulk renaming program would work but adds another, unwanted step to the process. Thanks

.mogrts are a great way to create stylized transitions and such, but the inability to add markers that are viewable within Premiere creates inconvenience when actually putting these into use. Being able to send an AE timeline marker back into Premiere within the mogrt would be hugely helpful!

Perhaps add a  >>  (to indicate a Fly Out Meny) to the left edge of the Vertical Margin that separates the Columns Section and the Timeline Section.    

I just really want a separate Expression panel, like the effects panel, where I can write expressions, and see what I'm writing without having to resize the text box on the timeline every time.Don't really care about coloured text or any of that other functionality. Just a simple text box.

Hello Adobe Community and Product Teams, I want to share an idea aimed at significantly improving our experience with resource-intensive Creative Cloud applications, such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, Media Encoder, and potentially others. --- ### **The Current Problem: The Local Performance Bottleneck** We love the power of Adobe tools, but many of us face major challenges: * **Prohibitive rendering and encoding times:** Hours of waiting for complex projects, which hinders creativity and productivity.* **High hardware requirements:** The need to invest in expensive workstations to achieve acceptable performance.* **Slowdowns and lack of fluidity:** Choppy previews, less responsive interfaces on heavy projects, even on good machines.* **Lack of flexibility:** Difficulty working efficiently on less powerful machines or on the go. These factors limit our ability to fully exploit the potential of the software and meet our deadlines. --- ### **The

This is a request to revert the decision to always override effects parameters when copy/pasting effects of the same type in Effects Panel. Existing flow:Make two layers with the same type of effect applied with different parameters between layers.Copy the effect in Effects Panel of Layer 1.Select Layer 2 to with existing effect of the same type.Paste copied effect using Cmd+V in the Effects Panel of Layer 2.Result: the parameters of pasted effect from Layer 1 always override the parameters of existing effect over Layer 2.Expected result: if the effect on Layer 2 is selected when pasting, the paramters of copied effect should override existing parameters; if it is not selected — pasted effect should be stacked as a new instance below. This experience of copy/pasting effects is currently inconsistent — it changes depending when you paste over layer with one effect instance of the same type, or with more than one, and thus feels broken, and complicates usual workflow: for 

I have a lot of pairs of keyframes, that both need to stay on the same value. A way to link two keyframes to each other and being able to change the value of two keyframes as one would be great.

Hi,I just noticed you can't import multiple layer styles from Photoshop PSD file into after effects. Ie If I have 5 Innershadow Layer styles in my Photoshop PSD file, After effects will only import 1 of those Layer styles.Can this be adjusted so After effects will import all of the Layer style stack including multiples of the same style?

I think it would be useful to borrow the Lock Workspace feature from Photoshop for After Effects, esp with the wide use of so many scripts and CEP panels in many workflows. I accidentally pull off tabs or slide them around in my day-to-day use of AE, esp since I’m using a Wacom pen most of the time.I’m sure there’s some wrinkles to consider, esp when switching Workspaces while locked - do you prompt with a pop-up or automatically switch it?

Please make it possible to have the audio in the maincomp and then every comp that is in the main comp will be able to play the audio as well in exactly the place where it's at - please!

I've been LOVING the improvements in RotoBrush 3, and it's come in quite handy for pulling external alpha mattes for Resolve colorgrading. However, the one thing that slows the workflow down is that you currently (as of AE 24.4.1) cannot batch export multichannel EXR files. You have to do it manually, one at a time, using the ProEXR exporter in the "Save Frame As…" menu. This really slows down my workflow because I have to monitor each EXR export, then manually export the next comp when the. previous one has completed. It would be a huge timesaver if you could render comps to multichannel EXRs via the Render Queue instead, rather than using the "Save Frame As…" menu.