Feature Requests

Hi,I'd like to request an option to disable slip editing when dragging the mouse over the areas before or after a trimmed layer in the After Effects timeline.Currently, when you click and drag in these areas, After Effects performs a slip edit, shifting the source footage's In/Out timing without changing the layer's position or duration.This behavior is extremely frustrating when working with compositions containing many layers. When trying to move or rearrange a layer, it's very easy to accidentally click on the wrong row and unintentionally slip-edit another layer instead.These accidental edits can easily go unnoticed and cause serious timing or synchronization issues.Suggested improvement: Add a preference to disable slip editing through regular mouse dragging. Alternatively, require a modifier key (such as Alt/Option) to perform a slip edit, rather than allowing it by default. Keep normal layer selection, trimming, and dragging behavior unchanged. Slip editing is certainly a us

Typography is an important part of many animations. With the great amount of options designers have with OpenType-Fonts every aspect of a font should be accessible in a modern animation software.Please add all OpenType-Options as seen in the Photoshop Character Panel to be natively accessible in After Effects.

The new ‘effects pannel visual previews’ in Premiere Pro Beta are super helpful. It’d be great to see the same feature come to After Effects as well. There’s so many great fx in AE that it’s sometimes hard to remember what each one of them actually does. 

Always wondered why there is no simple circle shaped wipe effect in After Effects. Same parameters ar the Linear Wipe, but then in a Circle. The Radial Wipe, wipes like the hand of a clock - which is contradictory to the Radial Gradient Ramp, which is circle shaped.UI-flaws that must be fixed. And pleade add that Circular Wipe, preferably with the option to use local or global coordinates, so shapes can be wiped on their position.

I’m building an animation widget that includes all the different controls any one could possibly want in a template. to make it useable, i want to group all the titles text into one section, the colour options into another option etc. Currently its just a massive live of sliders. super annoying and tedious to organize 150 controls.  

FORMAL CUSTOMER COMPLAINT: WHY IS ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS EXCLUDED FROM AI INTEGRATION?To: Adobe and AnthropicI am writing to express my dissatisfaction with the current limitations surrounding the integration of Claude AI with Adobe products, specifically Adobe After Effects.I am a paying customer of both Adobe and Anthropic. I pay for Adobe After Effects because I want to use professional video-editing and visual-effects software. I also pay for Claude because I want to use AI to improve my creative workflow and help me accomplish more with the tools I already own.What I do not understand is why Adobe and Anthropic allow integration with other Adobe applications while Adobe After Effects remains excluded.Why?If I am paying Adobe for After Effects and paying Anthropic for Claude, why shouldn't I have the ability to use Claude to interact with my installed After Effects application?I am not asking for access to software I haven't purchased. I am not asking for free Adobe subscriptions. I a

My client has supplied multi-point gradient backdrops made in Illustrator (attached) that need to animate (position & colour) over time but the default 4-point gradient in AE wont cut it unfortunatley. Is it a massive deal to either add extra gradient 'points' to the default 4-way gradient tool in AE? But if there was a way of importing Illustrator gradients and converting to shape layers with a multi-point gradient (animatable) then that would be brilliant as well...

if theres no motionblur for 3d objects then whats the point?

Updating from AE 26.0 to 26.5 I found out that the CC Composite effect default settings changed. I found it very useful to have it’s layer default selection to itself but you could always select any other layer from the dropdown menu list, and it’s been like this forever. Now, it’s pointing to “none”, so no layer is selected by default, you need to search in the dropdown menu list, which is pretty time consuming if you are working in a pretty complex comp.I don’t know the reason behind this random minute change, but I think it should go back.Cheers!

AE is basically the only compositor I use now that does not natively have tools for taking a UV pass from a 3D software and using it for projections, textures, etc. Even Autograph has it from day one.

 AE's 3D tools are stuck in 1996 because they are a discreet effect and controlled as such. Proper 3D VFX workflows require a good deal of flexibility, an entire monitor full of options, shaders, baking, export forms, VFX standards adherence, 3D data I/O, etc. Worst of all, AE isn't even true 3D. It's 2.5D, and the decrepit codebase can't really be changed without essentially building a new software.Heck, Adobe owns substance 3D now, but to my knowledge has no software that really integrates with it, and instead has left it a messy toolbox of loosely related software with similar UI, and each has one main feature that most 3D software just put together to speed things up. instead of trying to jam 3D into compositing software, make 3D VFX a new software, and make importing the renders, or rendering linked data, very robust. We're talking better handling for image seuences, color space transforms, LUT's, EXR handling, deep image format, 3D track export, the works. Maybe something that ca

I’d like Lumetri in AE to be able to export LUT’s in .lut and .cube formats just like it can inside Premiere. When I tried to do it I was surprised I wasn’t able to do that. Going back and forth between AE and Premiere messed with my color grading more often than not, and I always feel like I’m working around it.I think it’s an easy feature any user would agree we need.Cheers!

I often add time remapping to a layer to see the timecode on an imported video layer. It would be great to have a dedicated current timecode readout somewhere in the UI: either next to In/Out in the timeline or even a property under an Info dropdown under Transform/Audio. I don’t have much of an opinion on UX--just the need.Additionally, I would like to be able to paste timecode into the Time Remap effect to drop a keyframe at that for the pasted timecode at the playhead position. 

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. 

Linking effects to specific masks on a layer is a great feature with a wide range of uses. However, if the "Compositing Options" button appeared by default as soon as an effect was applied in the Effect Controls panel, assigning effects to masks would be much faster. we wouldn have to open layers stack every single time just to select the mask to the effect. https://prnt.sc/L0d5y9B558BX

This is currently hidden in the Timeline panel > Effects. Adding it to the Effect Controls panel will make it more obvious to users. Most people do most of their effects fiddling within the Effect Controls panel than in the timeline. (Probably?) This should be added at the bottom of every effect (like the current placement in the Timeline panel.), and default to closed to save vertical space. (See attached mockup) Putting it at the top might make someone think these render/calculate before the effect. Setting Compositing Options’ Effect Opacity to 0% renders/calculates faster (as in, always 0ms) than similar parameters within effects that control their own opacity, like “Blend With Original”. (In my limited testing &#x1f605 )

Add an Iterations parameter to the Compound Blur effect, similar to the existing parameter in Fast Box Blur.Compound Blur can produce noticeably blocky results, suggesting that its internally used blur iteration count may be too low for certain use cases. Exposing this iteration count as a user-adjustable parameter would provide greater control over blur quality and allow users to achieve smoother, more refined results when needed, at the cost of additional processing time.To ensure existing projects remain visually unchanged, the Iterations parameter should default to the number of iterations currently used internally by Compound Blur. This would preserve the existing appearance and behavior of the effect unless users explicitly change the setting.

 I want a refund please it was stated on the site when I cancelled my subscription

I think in (very) old versions I havent these readable problems (I using high quality monitor for years).Just do more readable keyframes in Dark Mode. Or add contrast, when Accesible color contrast is active.Or enable to remove the vertical line behind indicator.Actual state (I see just gray vertical line):   

Missing footage filter should update once some files are relinked. Sometimes Im missing 200 pieces and each are in different folders depending ont he content. But after I relink some of them the list remains the same and I have to scroll around to find the next missing one or clear the filter and filter missing footage again to refresh the list. It'd be nice to refresh automatically after a relink.

Never in my wildest imagination did I ever think I’d see such INCOMPETENCE from a company that makes industry standard editing software… BUT NO MEANS OF TECHNICAL SUPPORT!!! 😡😡😡 Even wiring this I’m getting INFURIATED! Me personally, I’ve CALLED and MESSAGED you clowns on Multiple occasions in the hopes to receiving assistance with an issue that would have taken 15-20min Tops! But NO!!! Each time, HOURS on the phone and messaging… YOU WASTE MY TIME AND NOT HELP ME!!! So I would highly suggest to actually start TAKING YOUR JOBS SERIOUSLY!!!!

its a small request, in the next update, can the field be auto selected when the edit guide window is opened, so i can begin typing a new number? love the added functionality to guides, but i hate having to hit tab or clicking in that box to edit the value. can’t tell ya how many times in the last few weeks i just start typing only to realize i just changed the position value to something like 5451203

I need to apply grain frequently in my work to clean plates I’ve created, and it needs to match the 6k/4k HDR plates I’ve been provided. I prefer Add Grain to Match Grain, as it’s quicker and more accurate for me to manually set it. Because of the size of the plates, and the lack of GPU acceleration in this plug-in, it’s the main bottleneck in my rendering speed, plus 32-bit would help with color fidelity. Obviously, multiframe rendering would be great, too, but I would at least love GPU acceleration to start!