Feature Requests

When writing expressions with required declaritives, ex: "linear"Rather than the auto-complete resolve to "linear()"Perhaps, just maybe as a reminder to users, the structure could be ghosted in place, "linear(input,inputValueLow,inputValueHigh,outputLow,outputHigh);" Another example would be the wiggle expression. ratehr than "wiggle ()" being the auto-complete, some thing like "wiggle (frequency, amount)" would be much more useful.  Saving time by avoiding the need to use another application to research or remember the properties would be extremely useful.  

The current panel says 'Initializing FastMask2ImgEncod...'. All the time. Its hard to tell if anything is happening.

It would be extremely useful to open a 3D file with its objects separated or to be able to choose from the list which ones would be visible, since After Effects treats a 3D file as a single layer and joins everything together. Animate all objects from the same 3D files independently, without having to import several files from the same project, which makes the process tiring and unproductive.

I would like to invoke scripts from the right mouse button menu. When using script frequently, it is annoying tho have to go the the File/Scripts menu all the time.

Hi!When changing the resolution of a composition I would like my guides to retain their positions relative to the center of the composition. Not top left corner. Qute often I have to adjust the height or width of my composition (for varying reasons...) and this throws my centerline guides off allthe time. Quite frustrating. 

Hi! Is there a way to select all keyframes in the graph editor using the keyboard? It's very inconvenient to do this with the mouse.

There is no scripting ability to convert Text Layer from Box Text (aka Paragraph Text) to Point Text, or vice versa.Command IDs for "Convert to Point Text" and "Convert to Paragraph Text" both report "3064".Running app.executeCommand(3064) does nothing.This would be very helpful to have in scripting API. Either as working Commmand ID or new methods.   Something like: TextDocument.convertToPointText() TextDocument.convertToBoxText()

I have a plethora of animations already in folders in my Project bin, and what would be great is to be able to select the folders and render them out to same. For example:So you can see how many files are in play. So the idea is to select FINAL COMPS and send that to ME, and ME renders them all out to same folder structure. Is that doable?

Please add a dedicated, assignable keyboard shortcut to toggle between the Value Graph and the Speed Graph in the Timeline's Graph Editor. Currently, this requires a right-click and menu navigation, which is slow and disrupts workflow. A single keystroke would dramatically speed up animation refinement for all users. This is a high-impact, low-effort feature that would significantly improve the daily efficiency of motion graphics artists and animators.

How great would it be if we can Lock / Hide items in Project Panel!To avoid accidental change of template Comps, or just to clean up clutter in projects that need to be used by others for versioning.

This is something I use absolutely every single day, just like many motion designers: editing the path on a shape layer.But unlike other properties, there’s no keyboard shortcut to access it. So you have to click the layer, then unfold the menus until you finally reach the path.In my daily workflow, I found a little workaround: I keep ‘path’ in the search bar, so all I have to do is select the layer and hit search to reveal the path… but honestly, it still feels pretty archaic ^_^’Adobe, if you’re listening, please give us this little shortcut, it would genuinely save us so many clicks. It would be such a time-saver in our daily workflows.Thank you!!

Add the ability to crop a composition to its layer bounds. Useful for when you pre-comp and don't want to inherit the original comp bounds, but use the layer bounds instead.Alternatively, add a pre-comp dialogue option to crop to layer bounds when creating a pre-comp.Similar to what this script does:https://aescripts.com/auto-crop/

As a reasonably new user of After Effects, the only thing I find frustrating is the 'inexact' nature of zooming on the timeline.With other Adobe products (and within the comp window itself) you can zoom in in percentage increments.I find, when working on a project, the tiny zoom at the bottom of the timeline is so small and inexact, I only really use it like a 3 stage zoom, all the way in, medium and all the way out. Anything else is quite finicky.The time navigator (above the timeline is far more useful in that you can drag in or out the view with greater control because it's larger.WHAT ITS MISSING FOR ME IS A box to type or select a percentage. (15%, or 25%, or 50%)This would allow me to use a common percentage for my comps that suits my specific comp.Depending on the length of my comp I quite often use the SAME PERCENTAGE because of the scale of my effects, or clips or the timing of my animation. If I could easily zoom in 25% it would make my life much easier.You could incorpo

I'd find it helpful to have a "Stop after current" button that would continue to render the video that is in progress, and then stop, so that all remaining items are still set to 'Queued'. (Or even for this to be the default behaviour.)   Currently, if I've set a lot of videos to render, and need to stop for some reason, I need to stop the queue, and then later find the item that was 'Stopped by user' and re-queue that item. This adds workload and also increases the risk of an item being forgotten during the export process.

After effects is in DIRE need of an edge extend tool. When dealing with keys or roto that has haloing and edge contamination issues and/or transparency from motion blur. To the best of my knoledge, there is no way in AE to extend the color and luminance values from the core of the key and extend them outward. This is a vital tool for correcting edges. I have been looking for over a decade for a tool or technique that can reliably to this in AE, and there isn't one. I literally have to have a Nuke artist do this for me. Nuke has a myriad of tools for the the clean up of contaminated edges on roto or keys.This is an example of what edge extend does in Nuke. this isn't an averaging of the overall pixels, it just extends the values outward so things like motion blur can be rebuilt.Here's a video describing the process of using Color Smear with an actor very quickly crossing a bright monitor that needs screen replacement. this is something I do regularly, and it's a tota

I don't see a lot of discussion around this topic and most After Effects compositors either use sub par methods or simply aren't in need for high end solutions. But for us being stuck in the ecosystem it is tremendously hard to perform high quality composite work without any form of pixel spread to do clean ups, edge extends and creation of clean plates from green screens. These tools have been available in compositing packages like Flame, Fusion and Nuke for years already. The only thing we have is an immensly slow performing extend in Refine Hard Matte with tons of options we don't need and a range limit of about 1pixel. Their tools perform close to realtime and are able to smear the pixel information much much further. Please consider implementing a very fast performing high quality pixel spreader that is able to take RGB information and spread it with different methods/modes via it's own layer's alpha/mask or external via the mask layer selection. To understand what

Right now, when multiple compositions are queued but not yet rendered, each one requires its own manual “Output To” selection. This gets tedious fast when you have dozens of comps waiting. It would be a major time-saver to select multiple queued items and assign a single output destination to all of them at once. Currently, even if you select all the comps and set the output for one, it doesn’t propagate to the other selected comps. This would simplify batch-rendering workflows and eliminate a lot of repetitive clicking, especially on large projects with many deliverables.

It would be great if they activated the option again to change the color of the lines in the after effects - I would like to be able to customize it as I liked as before - combining the colors with my setup - it is a very simple option but personally it was very good ! I wish it were possible to do it again in this version "2026" > option.. 

The text editing panel in the After Effects Properties Panel (when text has been set up as an essential property) is a fixed height of about 2.5 lines tall. Premiere's Properties panel shows three full lines. (This appears to be the visible amount of text regardless of display settings, though I won't pretend I did exhaustive research here.)   These work ok in many cases, but for templates where longer text will be the norm, it makes it fiddly and annoying for the end user to work with text in this small space, and means they generally can't see all of it at once without copy/pasting from another app.  I'd love the ability to establish a specific height for the text editing area for the end user - perhaps a setting could be added in the existing Edit Properties pop-up? An editable height value / number of visible lines would allow for excellent customization, and could allow for a reduction in screen real estate for templates that would never use more than a single line!

In a lot of Adobe programs, you can hold "option" (on mac) and drag a shape or layer to duplicate it. Except for AE, this is however a very fast and interactive way to duplicate something that could even be applied to effects, keyframes, etc. Here is a demo video of how this would work: https://vimeo.com/137401276

The text in error messages is kind of 'dead'. When we need it to report an issue, its a pain. Please make this text selectable and copyable.

Windows has a surprisingly low file path character limit. When Collecting files, it's nice that the (Footage) folder mimics the Project Panel folder structure, but It'd be nice to have the option to place all assets in a single root folder.I'm often deep in a directory when unzipping a collected project. The depth of the heirirchy within the project file makes sense, but when mapped to a folder structure blows past the file size limit causing headaches. I don't often need the folder structure to mimic the project file, so it feels like paths are artifically long causing headaches for a seemingly niche benefit.When working with others or in a location with many projects, moving a project file extract location isn't feasible and would impact other user on the system. Considering it's unlikely microsoft will change this limit anytime soon, I am suggesting these fixes. An option to place all files in a single folder (easy) or sort by file type/extension (moderate) or compress the file

Yup. A search box will be good for the Prefs - quicker to get to the right settings as well as perhaps finding related settings - imagine finding a setting you never knew existed but would greatly enhance your user-experience. 

When clearing the disk cache using app.executeCommand, After Effects should also display a confirmation warning.Specifically, when calling app.executeCommand(10200), the disk cache is cleared immediately without any warning, unlike when a user triggers the same action through the UI or a keyboard shortcut. This behavior can lead to accidental cache deletion and feels unfriendly to users.I would greatly appreciate it if a confirmation dialog could be added for this command as well.

Conclusion: ExtendScript needs an update, and Adobe should officially publish its type definitions. Why has ExtendScript not been updated?Right now, ExtendScript is still based on ES3, an extremely outdated JavaScript standard. Expressions, on the other hand, have been properly modernized and now support ES2020-level syntax. If Expressions can be updated, shouldn’t ExtendScript be modernized as well?Yes, updating ExtendScript may break backward compatibility and cause some existing scripts to stop working. However, ExtendScript also contains many long-standing bugs—such as issues with the conditional operator—that would be better off fixed even if it means some adjustments for script authors. In addition, why does Adobe still not publish official type information for ExtendScript (such as .d.ts files)?The community is collecting type information through steady efforts, but there is still a lot of missing type information.Types-for-Adobehttps://github.com/docsforadobe/Types-fo