After Effects

Just this, what if label colour in after was a little coloured square... it wll be easier to find the "Orange" label  but probably "Sea Foam" will be less choose, it'll loose a lot of poetry. Nevertheless, it'd be simple and no translation will be needed.

The Position Icon exists in the Effects Control Panel but they don't carry over to the Essential Graphics Panel. I understand that Point Control may be used for other than Position and hence, the Position Icon may be misleading. So, perhaps either allow for a way to remove the Icon OR create new Control specifically for 2D Position and 3D Position and 2 and 3-Dimensional Arrays.  

I am reposting this from a topic I posted in the bugs area. I was hoping to see if there was some feedback from Adobe but hadn't heard a peep so I am posting this here hoping for some real actionable results when it comes to After Effects reading, caching and playing back multichannel EXR files. Any format. For years the community has been asking for the EXR workflow to speed up and for years this community is still frustrated in Adobe's response to this. Yes, there have been some nice tweaks to how AE interperates the files, helping us shuffle the multichannels a little easier. But the speed in which files are played on the timeline is just rediculously slow, even when working with HD frames.With more and more users leaning into 3D in their daily work, and wanting to have as much conrol over the final output of their imagery, the After Effects team needs to put a higher priority on this request. You would think that compositing exrs would move up on the list of requests since the

In Illustrator, clicking on a gradient adds a stop with the exact color value where the gradient was clicked. This UX pattern makes sense, rather than the Photoshop/After Effects pattern whereby it adds one of the existing stops again where the gradient is clicked (which stop? The one to the left of the cursor for some reason!). Illustrator's solution is super helpful to find exact values at any point along the gradient, as well as creating a very specific "ease" to the gradient colors.

Using the search bar in the timeline we are able to search for multiple properties/effects in one go. It would be nice if in addition to search for them we were able to select them too!(Most of the times you don't want just to see them)https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/search-and-select/m-p/11942647

This gizmo is neat but most 3d applications give you the option to resize it. This thing is way too big. I did just read that you can go back to the old one (ctrl+shift+1 and back with shift+v), but it would be nice to be able to use this one smaller. 

Please add support for importing HEVC (H.265) clips with an alpha channel

Please make scrolling with your mouse wheel possible in dropdown menus, fonts, blending modes, etc. This makes the workflow so much better. I believe it is possible on mac, but not on windows.

Hello,I think it would be great if, when we copy paste a mask, the mask mode also gets pasted (add,substract,intersect...). In my opinion, in 90% of copy/paste cases, we, users, have to set the mask mode to how it was.Please upvote this suggestion if you agree on this.

I do work compositing Visual Effects renders with live footage. I need to use color charts to match between VFX renders and live footage for the best output. After Effects has nothing built in like DiVivci Resolve, and none of the color chart manufacturers have plug-ins to do this.  Right now, I often go to Nuke or DiVinci to do this, adding another process and making me think of leaving After Effects altogether and working in these other packages. It feels like a marketing or legal issue that slows productivity and something that should be in the product in this day and age. Are there any good plug-in's that can do this? Thanks,Jeff  

Hey why couldn't we have Media Encoder directly embeded inside after effects just like your render queues but a separate window panel with media encoder? 

The ability for After Effects to see and use an eGPU unit to take advantage of more GPU power.

It would be so good if After Effects could detect any embedded colourspce info in video / still files and assign it automatically on import. 

Some effects require subtile tweaking in 0.01 steps, or even smaller.Unfortunately Ae only shows 1 decimal, until the value is clicked. E.g. 0.0 can actually have a value of 0.001 I would like a situation, where more decimals are shown, or at least all leading zero's and the first relevant decimal: 0.0 shows as 0, but 0.01 and 0.001 and 0.0001 should should show all decimals.

Make the parenting and track matte pick whips different colors. Depending on my setup, they can be in different locations, and it drives me nuts when I quickly grab the wrong one and don't get the result I want. 

If you will pre-comp a comp with markers, the markers are visible but they are not being updated in the first comp when you move them.  This feature would be really useful for projects that require syncing. I am using comp makers for syncing texts in my lyric video templates.  

I've always animated at 30fps, so 3x "super" or big nudges (i.e. cmd/opt + shift + arrow keys) has always equaled 1 second, as super nudges are 10 frames.  Recently I've begun animating at 24fps, so now 3x super nudges is 1 ¼ seconds. It would be great if we could adjust the value of a super nudge to be whatever we want, or at the very least step it down to 8 or up to 12 frames.  

Something like a modifier to the I and O short cuts that only move to the out point and in point of the selected layer, except it will jump the CTI to the next available out point of any layer or the previous in point on any layer. 

To be able to see the audio channel colors of the layers in the precomp outside of the precomp.  

Dear Adobe, Is it possible to run two session of After Effects?If So, Could you implement a new functionality to support for selecting After Effects session to display dialog box when we start to run After Effect project file from Finder? We expect that It should not be holding the operation from a command line to run existing project file with After Effects session (PID).It will help many kinds of After Effects user. Now we must run a one of project file first to do subtracting the mask area after running two session without any project file. We are not sure which session will be selected. please try to confirm the way in your side. Best regards,

The Essential Graphics Panel and MOGRTs currently support Point Controls but do not support 3D Point Controls or 3D layer/Transform Position properties. This makes setting up animated 3D graphics incredibly difficult because you have to separate dimensions or add Expression Control/Sliders' to give the user access to those dimensions.  It is time to implement these features.

I tried to dock the audio panel full height to the right of the application, but that triggers mac stage manager switching.Be good to work with Apple on a way to support this.

Please make possible to separate dimension of Animator properties.Position, Scale, Line Spacing and so on. 

ACES works great now for pure footage or pure CG renders. Problem is it doesn't really work for the main usage of after effects which is motion graphics/design(!)Scenario: 3D render + AE graphicsSay i'm using ACEScg and Display Color Space set to rec709. The CG render looks right,  but for native graphical elements, hex values are wrong, white is grey,And the Info tab shows you info color in the native color space instead of the display color space. its confusing.I have to disable 'Display Color Space' to none, create an adjustment layer with OCIO color space transform from ACEScg to Utility/Gamma 2.2 Rec 709, and when exporting set it to Preserve RGB instead of using the output color space i want it to be. It would be more intuitive for motion designers if we had an 'ACES hybrid' system, where it transforms elements with an intrepreted source, but ignores native graphical elements. (Text, shapes, solids)And exports would apply the 'Display Color Space' as the outpu

Why are the brushes in illustrrator not inside After Effects??