Feature Requests

i knew the good and sincere intentions behind properties panel are. i knew it made lotta people life easier just for its existence. but from the moment it launched. properties panel in adobe walks at snail speed. things we could adjust or tweak in there are need more improvements. i found myself keep going back to layers to open up a certain props cause it never shown in properties panel. so i think adobe need to amp up the properties panel if the intentions are to minimize opening up things just to adjust.like all shape layer values gotta be in there. for starters. cheers!

Would be great to be able to select a folder in my Project tab and send all comps in that folder to ME. For example, I have a FINAL COMPS folder in which are several more subfolders, all organized and containing several comps each. Currently, I need to open ALL folders and then select ALL comps, while unselecting the folders... 

Some commands have very large shortcuts and they are tools that we use all the time like creating nulls and adjustment layers. I would love to have some buttons in the timeline panel to quickly create Nulls, Adjustment Layers, solids and cameras. There is a lot of space between de quick search field and the buttons for accessing the flowchart, shy layers, ect (attached image).  

I understand the existence of the Lumetri effect and panels in AE with all their scopes, also the hack of having a levels effect, added after the curves effect to see a Histogram.The Curves effect is lightweight, powerful and GPU accelerated.. but old. Very old in its interface and options compared to its brother Photoshop.My idea is just to update this effect into a more photoshop like interface with a included histogram.Image mockup submitted.

After Effects does not expose the camera’s Sensor Size (Film Size) to scripting. The Problem:Accurate camera creation and pipelines require knowledge of both Zoom and Sensor Size to correctly calculate Angle of View and Focal Length.Without script access, it’s impossible to verify, automate, or replicate real-world camera setups in AE via scripting Proposed solution:Expose Sensor Size (Film Size) as a read/write property in scripting.This would allow scripts to create cameras with the correct sensor size and accurately calculate Zoom, Angle of View, and Focal Length. Mike

Hello! I, and if you search discussions everyone, would love the ability to add a gradient along a stroke that follows the path. Currently, there are lots of hacky ways to do this. Typing in a bunch of ...... and tightly kerning them, 3D stroke, plugins like Thicc Stroke, but nothing native and easy to set up. Pretty please?

I can't believe this is not in AE already, but can we have a keyboard shortcut that will allow us to place a clip onto a new layer in the timeline at the playhead so we don't have to keep dragging them in manually. I know that I can hold command (control in Windows)  and drag to the timeline, but that is still much slower than simply using a key command. Please and Thank You!

I work with dozens of 2d animators (myself included) who would love to make After Effects shape and puppet pin animations a bigger part of our workflow, but we're limited by the current selection tool.  When animating a complex shape (or a mesh of puppet pins), it can get quite tedious using the rectangle selection to manually select each group of vertices and pins we want to transform.  (I've attached a gif showing how Lasso can be easily twice as fast). Having a Lasso tool (like the one in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Animate) would save us countless hours, help After Effects integrate even more seamlessly with Photoshop & Illustrator, and free us up to create much more complex and beautiful shape, puppet pin, and character animations. Other users have also noted that a lasso selection tool for keyframes in the timeline would also be extremely helpful in their workflows.   Thanks for reading, and please upvote if you agree! 🙂 (Kudos

For some chroma key jobs where Keylight fails, the good old Color Range keyer gets better results. But unfortunately, it is stuck in the 8bit era.Please update it to work with 16bit.

Along with migrating preferences, it would be a HUGE time-saver for there to be a tool/process to migrate plug-ins, extensions, and non-native fx when moving to a new version of AE. While some can be copied over, not all, and not having to manually re-install things would make life easier.

We can access marker times , keyframes times etc. But we cannot access then work area start and finish times via expressions.this will be helpful for creating loops and much more i suspect. somethingLike = thisComp.workAreaStart; andThis = thisComp.workAreaEnd;It can return time values just like inPoint and outPoint does for a layer.thanks

Simulation effects: Who does not love them?Particle Playground being a native plugin of AE (non Cycore) is very powerful, full of potencial and i love to experiment with it. The issue is that is slow.. incredible slow. And althought there are much better but payed 3rd party plugins it would be nice for AE to have its own 2025-26 GPU accelerated 2d/3d updated particle system internally to properly balance its market competition on this.Does this idea connect with anyone else? 

I see AE users constantly scrolling and clicking on opened comp tabs on the composition panel to find the one they need to work on. Although this is partially a matter of user workflow tidyness, organization and naming, After Effects could improve in its own way.For example having a preferences option, limiting the number of maximum recent comp-tabs you can have opened in the timeline panel. This in AE would prevent an user needing to scroll to X amount of open comps in the timeline, looking for the correct one, and having only a chosen max, of the recent ones.Nuke has this feature to avoid a crazy amount of uncessary node panels confusing the user while working and making the workflow and navigation much more efficient.

Dear Adobe Team,First, I want to thank you for the incredible work you’ve done with After Effects and Premiere Pro. I’ve personally used Premiere for over 10 years on major television projects and commercials that have aired on networks like NBC, ABC, and others. Adobe has been at the center of my workflow for more than a decade, and I deeply respect how robust and reliable your tools have been.That said, as workflows continue to evolve, speed and efficiency are becoming just as important as capability. Right now, so many creators are turning to other technologies because they don’t want to spend countless hours keyframing, masking, rotoscoping, and handling repetitive tasks that AI can help accelerate. While After Effects is unmatched in depth and precision, it risks falling behind if AI-powered features aren’t implemented quickly.The reality is simple: if Adobe doesn’t move faster in this area, another company will. Creators need smart, intuitive AI tools built directly into After Ef

An example: The motion blur switch was set so that it would turn blue, which was immediately visible when turned on. Currently, either there is an ashen grey background on or off. If the aim is to help the users, then a stark contrast like the blue button vs the current grey background makes a lot more sense

Make it so that after I search for an item in the After Effects project panel the original folder structure honors the twirl-down state before the search was invoked after I clear the search to restore visibility of the other assets. Stop completely twirling up all the folders I had twirled open before the search. Thank you

Hi everyone,I’m currently working on a very wide composition (11520x1152 px) with a camera and lots of 3D layers. In older versions of After Effects, it was possible to arrange the 2 Views either side by side (Horizontal) or stacked (Vertical).This option was removed years ago (for whatever reason?). When I use two comp views side by side, everything becomes extremely small at this resolution, which makes working with 3D layers and camera perspectives unnecessarily complicated.With a Vertical view (stacked), I could make much better use of my screen space and work far more efficiently. So my request is:
Could you please bring back the option to switch between 2 Views Horizontal and 2 Views Vertical in After Effects? For everyone working with extremely wide formats, this would be a huge improvement.Thanks a lot!

Hi,In AE 2025 every time I add a comp to the Render Queue it goes back to the default “Best Settings” + “Lossless.”In older versions AE remembered my last render settings and output module, which was much faster.Would be great if AE could keep the last used settings again — it saves a lot of time.Thanks!

One of the bigger frustrations I have with AE comes up when I open a project created by someone else, and the AE UI converts to THAT person's layout. I can think of 0 instances in which that would be of any use. I know I can go to Window->Workspace and call my saved layout back up, but why should I have to? Please change this behavior.

Previously requested but wanted to add a few addendums to this really desired item:Love the increasing native 3D capabilities of After Effects and I really wish the workflow of nesting compositions to build complex animations was reflected in the new Advanced 3D renderer. I would love to be able to select or reference a composition from the project panel to be used as a 3D layer's texture.As an animator / designer for screens for live events, we often use After Effects not only to build out large pieces of content (multiple synchronous 4K+ feeds) but also to previsualize in real-time what our content will look like. This is super helpful because we don't have to round-trip still frames or large renders between AE and another DCC. However, creating these previsualization setups can take a large amount of time, much of which having compositions UV-mapped onto 3D objects would save an immense amount of time. For instance, for a curved screen we often are cutting up a composition into mult

For some kinds of Projects, I rely on a set o f scripts to speed up things.I would like to see a Scripts panel to have these scripts handy.And on top of that, it would be nice to assign a key shortcut to each of the scripts.

Hello, Can you add the Solid Settings to the Properties panel? Thank you.

whenever i track motion i click the analyze 1 frame forward to get a better track when the auto track doesnt work and it works pretty well (combined with me adjusting the track to the point where it should be) but a lot of time is wasted inbetween clicking that then dragging my mouse to adjust the track then back to go another frame, i thought there could be shortcut to just analyze 1 frame so i didnt need to my mouse saving a significant amount of time but alas there wasn't.i know there are shortcuts to move the track however many pixels but i think its far more efficent to have 1 shortcut to go 1 frame then adjust rather than having to memorize 10 that adjust the track (those shortcuts in my opinion could be better spent elsewhere)not sure if this is a difficult shortcut to create but it would certainly save so many countless hours for me and editors alike -thank you for time

Hiya, just a couple of quick quality of life ideas that could make working with the AE render queue a bit easier:Add a button to collapse all completed renders - this would make seeing what's going on with multiple exports much easier, and save some clicking around time.A modifier version of that button (e.g. Shift-click) to remove completed renders from the queue - again, quick timesaving QoL idea.Add the ability to invert the queue order, so that newly-added items are at the top of the list instead of the bottom. (Or maybe the ability to sort by column title - the Status column would be really useful for this)Add Overscroll to the RQ panel, so that if the most recently-added items are at the bottom it's possible to scroll past them to reveal some space to expand menus into (this is an extension of this request: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-ideas/allow-overscroll-in-the-timeline-panel/idi-p/13229510 that I made on an old account) I reckon any or all of these

When working with large files in After Effects, I'll often disable a layer once it's effects are applied and animated so I can focus on working on the other layers without having to worry about viewport preview times. When it comes time to render the final animation, I'll often forget to turn these layers back on, resulting in me having to render a file a second time.I'd love to be able to designate a layer to be a "Target Layer" in the way that you can designate a Guide Layer.Where a Guide Layer shows up in your viewport, but not in the final render, a Target Layer shows up in the final render, but not in the viewport.This is a feature that already exists in many 3D softwares. It would be nice to be able to do the same in After Effects.This will be a substantially quicker/cheaper alternative to having to work with proxies.