Feature Requests

The After Effects user interface is very diffuclt to work with at 4k, even on very large monitors. To wit, on a 32" monitor at 3840x2160, the text of a layer name is 1/16 of an inch tall– 8 layers are packed into each vertical inch. The Console Debug "AdobeCleanFontSize" workaround has no effect on some aspects of the interface, such as layer names, text in effect control panes, etc. This undersized UI poses legibility challenges, and slows workflow by requiring an extrordinary level of pointing accuracy to click on things. Illustrator solves this problem elegantly by adding a "UI scaling" slider control to the "User Interface" pref pane. Photoshop solves this problem a bit less elegantly but still effectively with a "UI Font Size" and a "Scale UI to Font" option.  I suggest the AE team adopts one of these appoaches.  I'd also suggets that this be a very high priority. It is necessary for most AE artists to work at 4k these days, making this an annoyance that I deal with

Many people have trouble with eye strain especially animators. Why in the world was this functionality removed from After Effects? Please add this feature. 

Could the sourceRectAtTime() expression work on 3D models and Primitives? Adding a depth parameter in addition to width and height would be great!

When I select a parameter from a shape layer and copy it (anything that would go under a “Shape 1” for example, including Path, Size, or Animators), if I try to select another shape layer and paste, it always creates a new shape within that layer rather than simply updating those parameters in the shape that already exists. This doesn’t make sense and is extremely frustrating in use cases where you need to batch update a lot of shape layers to match a master shape. I have used expressions to brute force the parameters to match across all shape layers, but this is not only hacky but also creates crashes and slow downs when (as in my case) you have 100 shape layers in a comp. To clarify - If I have two shape layers with the same shape name in them (e.g. “Square 1”), and I copy a parameter from Square 1 on the first shape layer, I should then be able to select the second shape layer in the composition and paste, and it should update that exact parameter within the “Square 1” shape. The sa

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.

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.

We want to hear your ideas about how we can improve After Effects. Your opinion is very important to us and the ideas provided here regularly appear in future versions. When posting an idea, here are a couple of things to keep in mind:   How will the idea help your workflow?  You're the expert on your workflow, so tell us how your idea would improve your workflow. What problem are you having today that the idea could solve? That helps us understand your idea better. It also makes it easier for us to follow up with you to get more info on your idea.    One idea per thread If you've got two (or more!) ideas, make each of them a separate thread. Doing this will allow others to vote on a single, specific idea and not confuse up-votes amongst a list of feature requests.   Enlist support! If you feel strongly about a feature, and you know other people do too, get them to vote on it.   

just recently I learned with right click you can edit the position of guides :-) And you can even do math in there! Now: Woudn't it be handy, if we could select multiple guides als change it positions? For eG measure/match the space between a coule of logos or text blocks thanks! :-D

When adding an OBJ to a composition, After Effects automatically warns you with an annoying popup and changes to the Advanced Renderer, but many widely used effects such as Plexus, Particular, Form, Element 3D and Stardust use OBJs using the Basic 3D Renderer. Please add a 3D Preference to not change the renderer upon adding an OBJ to a composition. Having to change the renderer back and get yet another warning dialog every single time is very disruptive to this workflow. Currently neither warning can be dismissed permanently. Warning when adding OBJ Warning when changing back to Basic 3D Renderer 

Create layer groups (Folders in the Timeline, bam!),apply adjustment layers to selected layers,andclone layers, merge mattes, pre-render, and more!Please Adobe reach out to Constantin and hire him!  

I like to set some ‘key frames’ where I use Rotobrush to tell it how I would like it to mask. E.g the first and the last frame of a clip. But unfortunately, when brushing the first frame and then jump to the last frame to brush that, the tool starts propagating already, using a lot of resources and kind of freezes. I would like to see a button to manually stop and start propagating, when needed.

 Imagine this field from the “New Comp” dialog in the “New Comp from selection” window. Saves a couple clicks. 

Hi:   Up until the latest update (2025) for After Effects. I was able to change my Theme UI Color. This link shows a video of how you used to able to change the Theme UI Color: (Mod note: Link removed)   I contacted an Adobe Agent and he said several changes were included in this latest update of After Effects. He said to file a feature request here in hopes of getting that feature back again. The After Effects Version I am using is: 25.0.0 (Build 53) and I am running it on a PC with a Windows 11.  This may not seem like a big issue to some people but it's something I got used to as part of my workflow.  If you could bring this feature back it would greatly be appreciated!   Mod note: Please do not condone the use of internal engineering tools like Console. The link showing how to change engineering settings in the UI has been removed. The text was also modified. Thanks.

In After Effects versions up to 2024 it was possible to enable UI theme colorizingvia internal console/debug settings (theme colorizing).Starting from AE 2025 this functionality has been removed or disabled,and there is currently no way to customize UI accent / highlight colors.This negatively affects:– readability for long sessions– accessibility (eye strain, color sensitivity)– user workflow consistency across versionsRequest:Please restore UI theme color customization (even as an experimental or advanced option)or officially expose it in Preferences → Appearance.This feature already existed and worked before AE 2025. 

You can change the highlight color currently, but I would love to be able to change the background the same way I am able to with other Adobe products. It helps for me to enhance some coloring depending on the project at hand and I know someone has previously mentioned their screen reflects too much of them (screen becomes a mirror) so it makes it harder to see.

I regularly use text animators to bring on text a character/word/line at a time, but I sometimes have to animate chunks of text appearing one paragraph at a time. There is no easy way to do this using Text Animators, so I propose the addition of a “Paragraph” option as well as character/word/line. This would only work with Paragraph text, and it would enable me to animate a whole paragraph appearing in one chunk.Currently, if, for example, I have a chunk of text (bullet points) and I animate ‘per line’, and have these keyframes:...then the first, single-line bullet points appear as you’d expect: each one takes 1 sec to fade on. But if I then animate from line 5 to line 7 (this bullet point spans two lines), the lines appear sequentially (as you’d expect) because we’re animating line-by-line. If I had a Paragraph option, then these lines would fade on together.

Photoshop and Illustrator import could both stand to be modernized significantly, and it’s unlikely I’ll remember every aspect in this post, but here are a few specifics: Overall, look to Character Animator as a template for a more “aware” import. It’s less of a detached one-way street, and more akin to a Dynamic Link. Changing a layer name doesn’t break linkage, and AE would be aware when a layer is added in the design app. (Is it possible I’m overlooking some obvious downside to this approach in AE?) Parity of language and layout between the two import pop-ups would be ideal.  Comps created via the import dialogue pull their duration from your previously-created composition, which isn’t really indicated anywhere, making it not very discoverable, potentially confusing, and potentially annoying to fix when many layers are involved. Adding a Duration field + dropdown (like the one found in Comp Settings) would be an excellent improvement here.  Obvious, but: Illustrator text should have

Loving the new parametric 3d mesh feature released in 2026, allowing us to create basic shapes within AE.They are now really similar to shape layers, with one key difference - we can only have one parametric object per layer.Being able to add more per layer would provide the freedom to create more complex 3d objects without having loads of layers on the timeline, keeping everything more organised, and enabling materials to be changed in once place.I also think this better opens up to future possibilities of having more complex parametric 3d models, by being able to implement things like booleans, repeaters, and other mesh modifiers, in a similar way to what we’re used to with shape layers.

When I open an Illustrator (.ai) file in After Effects (Import → Composition), any artwork that sits outside the composition frame is automatically turned transparent/alpha-clipped. I intentionally leave a margin around elements in Illustrator so that when they move the edges don’t show seams — but After Effects is making those outer areas transparent, which causes visible gaps during animation.Steps to reproduce Create artwork in Illustrator that extends beyond the intended comp size (leave a margin around the visible area). Save as .ai and import into After Effects as Composition. Open the composition: artwork outside the comp frame appears transparent (alpha) instead of preserved. Expected behaviorArtwork outside the comp bounds should remain opaque (preserved) so the margin stays visible when elements move.QuestionIs there a setting or recommended import workflow to prevent After Effects from automatically making those outer areas transparent? Any workaround or explanation of w

Its not possible to select object that is above the one that is already selected below. To select the object I want I have to deselect object below first. Please fix this.

Currently there is no way to animate trim paths on live text. A User needs to Convert to shapes or masks and go from there. Meaning that any edits to the text become laborious.Thos animation is a common one too, that I see a lot in titles and motion design.Adding a "strokes Trim Paths" text animator option would be a great way to implement this, once added you set the trim path speed. then use either the range, wobbly or expression selectors to animate. And honestly I don't know why its not part of AE already. as a text animator it would have great control as the selectors have great flexibility.C'mon Adobe.

Hello Adobe Team,I’d like to submit a feature request for Adobe desktop applications (e.g., Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator): a multilingual UI display option that allows interface text to be shown in multiple languages at the same time.Requested Feature: Multilingual UI Labels (Displayed Simultaneously)I’m hoping for a system that can show UI labels in more than one language in a single view. The implementation could be flexible—for example: Side-by-side labels (e.g., “File / 文件/ファイル” or “Layer / 图册/レイヤー”) Hover tooltips that display a second (or multiple) languages when the cursor is placed over a menu item, button, or setting Any other approach that achieves the main goal: being able to see multiple languages at once, without switching the whole application language in settings The key point is: multilingual information should be visible simultaneously in the UI, rather than requiring users to reinstall or restart the application to switch languages.Backgroun

With the addition of Variable Type to Illustrator, I would love to see supported in After Effects. The ability to interpolate between the many variables available would be a huge benefit in motion design, streamlining the current process and saving eons of time from the current arduous method. It would open doors to some pretty amazing things.

The direct SVG-to-Shape Layer conversion does strange things under-the-hood and it’s messing up my Bake Shape to Individual Shape Layers. I now actually have to convert the SVG to Adobe AI in order to get a native SVG to bake nicely in AE, after first having to import the converted SVG-to-Adobe AI into AE.  

Shape layers could really use some love. I propose that the same way we add selectors and properties to Text Layer animations, should be used for Shape Layer Repeaters. Draw a square, repeat it 10 times, now add a range selector with position and scale. think of the cool mograph type effects you could create with that system, The best part, is that Shape Layers and Text Animators are practically cousins, so I don't think it would be to hard to implement. Bonus would be to also have the same path options that Text layers have as well, imagined if you could repeat along a path!!!!! so many possibilities. Also wiggly and expression selectors would open up so many new doors. Visual: https://i.imgur.com/wEQELHo.jpg