After Effects

Timeline folders. We have them in Animate, Photoshop, Illustrator... precomps can utterly ruin your work and is NOT an alternatives to having a simple folder hierarchy - especially when dealing with shape layers or anything that requires continual rasterization.

Holding down shift and clicking "New Folder" in the project panel will automatically move any selected layers into the new folder. The same feature that’s in Photoshop.

It would be super rad if AE has the ability to have Project Tabs.A lot of other software, like Cinema 4D for example, allows multiple projects to be open at the same time, making switching between projects more seemless and allows for a quicker workflow.Is this something After Effects is able to handle on the backend? Would greatly depreceate the time it takes to close and open between projects, especially when working between multiple projects during the day. I think a majority of users will appriciate this new feature! Thanks!

Could the devs please look at updating the Gradient Ramp effect so that it allows for multiple colours with keyable, adjustable positions, more like how the Gradient Overlay Layer Style works? Having two colours can be really limiting sometimes.

When editing expressions in the Timeline panel, expressions that are located near the bottom of the visible timeline become difficult to edit because the expression editor cannot be fully expanded within the available viewport. After Effects Version: 25.6.4OS: Windows 11 Enterprise Steps to ReproduceCreate multiple layers with multi-line expressions. Place the layer containing the target expression near the bottom of the visible Timeline panel. Open the expression editor. Try to expand the expression editor vertically to view the full expression. Expected ResultThe expression editor should automatically stay fully visible, or the Timeline should scroll as needed so that the entire expression editor can be expanded and edited comfortably. Actual ResultThe expression editor is constrained by the bottom edge of the Timeline panel. As a result, only a few lines are visible, making it cumbersome to read and edit longer expressions. Users must constantly resize panels, collapse properties, o

When working with Content-Aware Fill, I find myself deactivating and reactivating Masks all the time. Please make an checkbox to skip applied masks when choosing ‘Create Reference Fram’.

In After Effects, the maximum composition duration is currently limited to 23:59:00:00.However, in actual production environments, there are cases where filming begins late in the 23:00 hour and continues past midnight into the following day.For this reason, we would like After Effects to support timelines longer than 24 hours more naturally by either removing the current 23:59:00:00 maximum duration limit or extending it beyond 24 hours.Although this is a rare case, we have also encountered situations where a frame after 23:59:00:00, such as 23:59:05:15, needed to be used as the starting frame. However, After Effects was unable to support this.

sourceRectAtTime() is extremely useful, but it only returns values in layer space. Please add a method that returns the bounding rectangle directly in comp space, including all layer transforms (position, scale, rotation, parenting, and collapse transformations where applicable).This would eliminate complex conversion workarounds and make tasks like responsive layouts, collision detection, alignments, and motion graphics tools much more reliable and performant.

There is a growing demand to edit and export video footage while preserving the metadata contained in the source files.Although it is possible to export using ProEXR, differences in metadata can occur between the original footage and the rendered output.In particular, for OpenEXR files, we would like After Effects to preserve and carry over, as much as possible, the metadata added during the shooting and production process.

Would there be any chance that the team could implement scrubby zoom for the composition and timeline panels in AE?It would make using them far easier when using a Wacom tablet.

Hi everyone,I’d like to request a small but highly impactful quality-of-life update for the After Effects timeline: the ability to drag the Current Time Indicator (playhead) by grabbing the vertical line itself, rather than forcing users to click the blue marker at the very top of the time ruler.The Problem in After Effects: Currently, in After Effects, if you want to scrub through your composition, you have to move your mouse all the way up to the top of the timeline panel to grab the blue playhead marker. If you hover over the vertical blue line that cuts through your layers, you just get a standard white mouse pointer and cannot drag the time slider from there. I’ve attached a screenshot demonstrating this limitation.The Solution (How Premiere Pro Does It): In Premiere Pro, you can hover your mouse anywhere over the vertical playhead line in the timeline, and the cursor automatically changes to a left/right drag tool. This allows you to click and drag the line directly without havin

The new 3D features are great! But I really miss a Rounded Bevel like the one in Adobe Stage or the fillet in Cinema 4D. I hope it will be implemented soon.

I’d like there to please be a command available for keyboard shortcuts to activate the timestamp field in the top-left of the Timeline panel. A lot of the time when I’m clicking in this field, it’s because I want to jump to the current time plus/minus X frames or seconds. The existing ‘Go to Time’ dialog doesn’t support this, so there’s currently no way to do these time calculations via keyboard shortcuts.Additional side-request (although the above would be preferable): Enable calculations in the ‘Go to Time’ dialog.(I did consider requesting that the command be changed to activate the timestamp instead of opening the dialog, but I’m aware that would remove functionality for people who might be working without the Timeline panel open.)

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There are several columns in the project panel that are rarely seen/used by a large portion of users. More may be visible and become useful, if some were condensed. It’s not a huge improvement, but eliminating the ‘label’ column by combining it with the folder icon would be helpful. The current MacOS changes the folder color when you label it with a tag/type. That UI improvement would be a great implementation (similar to how markers can be colored in a timeline) so that we can color code the folder/comp icon directly rather than have color set to the side in a separate column. 

Have been wanting this feature for a long time, it's been great for Premiere, and would love to see the same implementation in After Effects. We don't need to be able to collaborate in Ae in my office, but we often pass projects around, and this would save a lot of time hunting down people to make sure no one has the project open and we don't write over each other's work if we need to jump in and change a lower 3rd or something.

Please add safezone options for current social media platforms to After Effects and Premiere!99% of the videos I create professinally are for social media campaigns, yet there are only guides in AE for broadcast safezones.

I'm a learner, but I'm pretty sure it is not supposed to work like this. First off, I'm on Windows 11 using the most updated version of AE. To the best of my knowledge, the settings in my AE are the default, "fresh out of the oven" AE settings. The issue: I had made a simple track matte animation and was exploring with the pre-comp feature. The animation itself was a very simple move-from-position-A-to-position-B animation and there was a matte applied to it so that it would appear to scroll into a selected region. Now, I had precomposed this and selected a region of interest in the new precomp. After deciding I didn't like the region I had selected, I hit ctrl+Z. That undid the animation though, not the last action performed that was the selected region of interest. I can fiddle around with this and get back to the original state it was in, but is this how it's supposed to work? I guess I could see it, but it seems rather incovenient.

We really need improved and reliable audio playback. I am struggling right now on a project that needs precise audio syncing and the audio stops or stutter or disappear even on a full-green timeline.We’ve lived with this for years, I think it’s time to give the audio playback some attention, it’s a very important part of every project and must be reliable. So I’d like to see: improbed audio playback and maybe some audio improvements like some way to quickly manage audio transitions/fades (no keyframe at -60db anymore please!) or some way to add automation with points in the waveform for quick audio editing directly in after effects like in NLE editors. Also waveform loading and display can be improved (now very slow and not very clear waveform).I hope one day I can stop to rely on premiere for all the audio editing and do most of the job direcly in after effects. Now it’s not reliable enough. 

Align to the middle (vertically) doesn't work with masked video (AE 26)

AE expressions currently support the following interpolation types: linear, ease, ease in and ease out.To provide better control over the easing curve, I propose implementing an additional interpolation type: Bezier. A matrix of 4 values would be used to define a cubic bezier (similar to how this is handled in CSS animation) Something like this:bezier(t, tMin, tMax, value1, value2, [0.4, 0.14, 0.3, 1]) A nice little enhancement, which would allow greater creative control over expression based animation. Thanks for your consideration.

Please add an Audio effect for volume so we can apply it to an adjustment layer and effectively control volume of layers below. I often create an AUDIO MIX comp with a plethora of v/o layers chopping up audio voice files and sometimes we get low audio files from sound studio… so being able to adjust all at once within that comp would be great. And before someone says “Adjust the comp in the master comp” yes, would be great if I didn’t have 27 master comps of videos using the same AUDIO MIX….

The current CC Composite (v2.0) requires manually specifying a “Top Layer”, but I’d like to request the option to use the previous version (v1.10)’s behavior, where the effect automatically composites the layer’s own original image.The old version worked fully self-contained, which made it much more practical for effect presets, templating, and layer duplication workflows.While the new version is more flexible, needing to reassign the Top Layer every time is a real bottleneck for reusability and efficiency.If possible, please consider:- Keeping or making the legacy CC Composite behavior selectable- Or allowing expressions like `thisLayer` in the Top Layer selectorThank you for your time and consideration.

Keyboard shortcuts can already be used to run scripts but they are assigned by index, not name, and are limited to the first 20 scripts in the Scripts folder. If you assign a keyboard shortcut to a script called 'Very Important Script.jsx' and later add another script called 'Another Script.jsx' to the Scripts folder, the keyboard shortcut gets unseated because A comes before V.  Now the shortcut fires whatever script was before Very Important Script in the list of scripts. This is confusing behaviour for most users and is not well documented. It's especially bad because it seems to work by name, until it doesn't. There are a number of videos out there (from very reputable sources), which show users how to assign shortcuts to scripts, but don't explain this issue. Ideally, scripts would be assigned shortcuts by filename, and all the scripts in the Scripts folder would be available. This could also allow developers to access the shortcuts .txt file and add a permanent sho

I really wish to have a fast and native light wrap plugin in After Effects. This tool is essential in compositing.