After Effects

I've just mustered the courage to update to AE 2022, and I was wondering why the "Cache Frames When Idle" option is not included in the Preview panel window with all the other RAM preview related settings?I mean it's absolutely not a huge deal at all in the grand scheme, but as a long term AE user it's where I went to instinctively to find the setting. When i couldn't find it I had to go searching. Seems its kinda in an odd place under the comp dropdown.It's a nice feature, but I just couldn't live with the extra fan noise from my system every few seconds!

When having multiple parameters modified or animated in a single layer it's easier to find a specific parameter that needs tweaking, in the effects control panel but it gets lost in the timeline panel., especially when the names of several parameters are very similar or there are many groups that share them, like with the Element plug in, which has many parameters named very similarly across several groups. When looked at in the timeline panel where the names might be partially collapsed, it becomes very cumbersome and tedious to locate the specific desired parameter. The Reveal in Timeline option only opens the layer and shows all animated/modified parameters but does not highlight the exact one clicked above, in fact if the layer is already twirled down the Reveal in Timeline function does nothing. It would be great to have a way to select a parameter in the effects control panel and have it highlighted/located in the timeline panel, it would save tons of time.

Hello - It would be very useful to be able to create multiple inverted masks on one layer. My current use case is this: I want to remove multiple sections from an image to allow footage to be seen beneath it. I understand that I can achieve this with track mattes, but I find that ends up cluttering my comp by adding more layers for track mattes (I can't hide them as I don't want to mix in the track mattes with my other shy layers, it messes with my layer organization).   It just seems far more intuitive to be able to create multiple masks then invert them all, rather than using track mattes. I hope this is something easily implementable by Adobe!

TL;DR: Where AI is concerned, Adobe should go first for the LOW HANGING FRUIT: not trying to shove 'Creative AI' in our face all the time (as in Adobe Illustrator...don't think we don't know you are harvesting our "TRY IT NOW" outcomes to train your AI). Why get a machine to do what comes naturally to creatives when you could be getting AI to do what does not come naturally to us (but should come naturally to AI): navigating the technical complexity of an endless labyrinth of upgrades, version differences, UI changes, feature additions and alterations, et al? Remember how useful and valuable R2-D2 was in Star Wars? Remember how he could plug into any access port on the Death Star to help the heroes in their time of need? i.e. How about an AI which intelligently finds & substitutes what is missing or helps the user locate what is missing so we can actually replace it ourselves (instead of just telling us "x is missing, use y instead" and leaving us to hunt for where x might actually

idea; use 'take snapshot' and enable snapshot as an overlay/onion skin

Here is an example of all we need to resize the textbox with sliders. It would be much better if there was the possibility to animate by simply modifying the pivots at each end of the text box, and in that way the text is accommodated inside the box. An excellent update for AE would be to have the option to animate the text box natively.After Effects: Resize Textbox Hack with Expressions (youtube.com)

 can you add a faster option to replace or reload a footage in right click timeline footage?RELOAD FIRST!

Can you add an option to divide a timiline in two areas Graph editor + timeline?OR Add a NEW TAB with graph editorthanks

I regularly use the ` key to embiggen a panel to full screen, and it works well. But it would be even better if I could set it up to toggle between two workspaces - one being whatever workspace I have currently set (as is the current behaviour), and the other one that makes the active panel full screen on my main monitor (as it currently does) but ALSO puts some other panels on my 2nd/3rd monitor(s). This would be great when, for example, working with text - pressing ` when my pointer is over my comp window would make that full screen, but it'd also put (if I'd set up the workspace) my Character and Paragraph panels on my 2nd monitor. Maybe there would be a specific workspace for this in the Window > Workspace menu (maybe "multiscreen" or something), and when we saved a workspace under that name, it would always be triggered by the ` key.

It would be great if we could access the information buried within layer style gradients.  This is currently hidden under a seperate 'edit gradient modal'.My request is to be able to access both the gradient knot colour and position information. i.e. knot 1, color (either in hex, rgb(a) and hsv, and position along the grad, i.e. knot 1 is 0%, knot 2 is 100%.This way we would then be able to either do some fancy stuff using expressions, or be able to rig the gradient color properly, i.e to slider and color controls for the knots. Being able to access the colours in different ways, i.e. by hsv would also be cool, as it would then allow for sliders to control just the saturation value for example.Obviously the order of operations is key here, which is why sometimes we use the power of layer styles over effects,.I'm currently working on a ton of placement versions, and I'm having to update these gradients manually on different layers and it is very cumbersome.  Being able to

Dear Adobe, Could you provide us the capacity planning information for having external GPU using Type C interface?We will take a 4K/5.4K 360 video for 3 mins through 5 mins. It sometimes will be 120 bps, 60 bps and so on. It will be general setting of 360 camera to take a video.it will be held in such the length of target route and also the limitation of digital camera specification. It will be held in day time in the forest, flower garden and so on. Spec :GPUMemorySSDMajor MakerTimefile size and resolution and bps and file type. Now we have bottleneck in the process of After Effects Subtract, making proxy and rendering, and exporting composition from Adobe Media Encoder. If we could improve the time consumption, It will be very efficient and effectiveness. Camera:GoPro MaxInsta360 One XTHETA Z Thank you very much for your support.Best regards,

I'd like to suggest adding a universal search feature in After Effects. This would allow users to quickly locate tools, effects, and settings by typing in keywords, streamlining workflow and improving efficiency.Thanks for considering this enhancement.

The new extended viewer is a great addition to the program, nice being able to see outside of the viewer frame! It would be amazing if this was an option for a 2D workflow, there's definite benefits for being able to have vision of what's outside the frameA workaround for those who like this as well, you can create a simple 3D layer and hide it. It will allow you to still use the draft 3D mode to have the extended view enabled for your 2D layers. Not sure what impact it would have on performance though having 3D enabled!

Allow the separation of dimensions for the Scale transform control. Just like Position does currently.

How come there's no contextual tip to helpfully inform me how to turn off contextual tips? When I am busy, I don't have time to read unnecessary popups. WHY must every Adobe software have this feature, seemingly one that can't be turned off. It frustrates me immensely. 

Idea / UI bugOn opening After Effects the splash screen with the recent projects is too big taking space across two monitors with the 'X' closing window icon being even beyond the 2nd screen so it's not even visible. The main application is placed in Windows properly. It's just the 'recent projects' humongous window shouldn't take all available screen space. It should be compact and stick to main window where the app is launched.Windows 10 Pro, Ae latest Beta (and previous versions too).

For years I've been constantly feeling AE come to a stop, previews cease up and I know from experience that I need to go Purge>All Memory and disk cache. Could AE not be more proactive here and monitor the cache, and ideally delete on-the-fly in the order of oldest? 

Make it so that elements from the CC Library are connected to the project as a link and the ability to embed if necessary as it is implemented for Illustrator.

Two quick suggestions to improve rotobrush, especially for projects that are using it a lot. 1) Have an indication in the Effects Controls panel to show if the rotobrush has been frozen or not.  This makes it easier to see if a layer is frozen without having to open the rotobrush in the layer window 2) Be able to queue up / batch freeze multiple rotobrush layers, preferably in the background. A sort of "render queue" but for rotobrush layers...

I think it would be nice to have a mark or slight highlight of the composition you have active in the Project panel. Sometimes when you have a lot of comps in the project and you want to find a comp is hard to find, a little visual mark would be very handy. Something like this:   

Add "CapCut" Stickers, like animated hand-drawn arrowheads, circles, etc. to After Effects - clients are asking for them, and they are very handy, quick, scalable and easy to overlay on top of an image.

I have been researching how to containerize After Effects rendering nodes since last year. During that time, I happened to come into contact with Azure's App Service. I believe that Microsoft Azure's support for Windows containers should be the most comprehensive among all the competitors. So, I decided to try it out, and the process went smoothly. It was quite easy to deploy our rendering nodes to the cloud 🙂 Since the deployment and setup process were not too complicated, I decided to turn this whole process into a small GitHub project this year, making it convenient for others in need to use. In the future, if Microsoft Azure introduces other products that better support the use of Windows containers, I can continue to research these new products to see if they can be more seamlessly integrated with AE. https://github.com/theringe/winae

The Paint Bucket is an unsung and underused hero in After Effects. It's very handy to grab a quick section of a layer with the Stencil Alpha feature. It'd be really handy if we could punch multiple holes in a layer with a Silhouette Alpha mode as well.Please add that to the list of options in Paint Bucket.

I need to turn off the scroll wheel zooming in After Effects. If I am looking at a Comp window and I scroll with my mouse, the view zooms in or out. I don't want to do this, especially because I have a Magic Mouse and any stray movement suddenly zooms my window. It's a realy problem. Can I turn this "feature" off?iMac i7 running Mac OS X 10.6.2

Onion skinning built into After effects