Feature Requests

It's a minor thing, but often I have longer filenames and have been using comments to keep track of some things as well. However, if the text is too long, the source / file name gets an ellipsis at some point in the middle of the text, and comments are simply truncated (and sometimes it is not even obvious that this is happening). Making the columns wider helps, but then takes up valuable screen real estate.  Would be great to show a tooltip with the full text when the mouse hovers over these. It honestly is a feature that seems standard in many UIs, and I was expecting one to appear initially when I first started messing with After Effects. (I had initially posted this to the beta forum but this seems like a better place for it!)

It’d be amazing if After Effects could save my workspaces to my Adobe account. I’ve spent years perfecting my panel layout and custom script UIs and every time I change computers or reinstall AE, I have to rebuild everything from scratch. Ideally, my workspace would live in my Creative Cloud profile, so when I log in on a new machine, everything’s back exactly how I left it. Panels, extensions, scripts, all in place. Bonus idea: if AE detects that a panel or script UI used in my workspace isn’t installed yet, it could just notify me instead of leaving an empty space. That’d save a ton of time and confusion.In short:Save/sync workspaces in the cloudRestore automatically when signing inAlert me if a panel or script is missing This would make switching machines or reinstalling After Effects so much smoother like how keyboard shortcuts or prefs used to sync.

I wrote an expression that gets After Effects on its knees directly after opening or importing the project. It would be great when Safe Mode had an option to disable expressions, so the user can correct or remove the culprits.

Desarrollar un botón,  similar a la opción de capa tímida, que defina un rango de capas sobre las cuales haya un desplazamiento vertical específico, es decir: Por ejemplo: Tengo un proyecto con 50 capas de las cuales requiero un desplazamiento constante entre un grupo continuo de 20 de ellas para la selección de fotogramas clave o definición de otras propiedades. Entonces arrastro desde la primera capa hasta la ultima con clic sostenido y la selección de capas se sigue hasta más allá de la última capa deseada. Con este botón pued oponer el rango de que al hacer este tipo de movimientos ocurra entre las 20 capas que necesito. ¿Por qué es útil? 1.- Porque no siempre se desea precomponer un grupo de capas que se seguiran modificando en una composición principal.  2.- Porque La tecla shift funciona para la selección de capas pero no para la selección de los fotogramas en sus propiedades, mucho menos cuando se requiere seleccionar múltiples propiedades como esc

Right now in After Effects, if you select a bunch of comps in the render queue and try to change their output path, only the first one updates and the rest keep their previous paths. It’d make way more sense if selecting multiple items in the render queue and setting a new output path applied to all of them. My current workaround is clunky: I set a path for the first comp, then go back to the project panel, select the rest, and add them again so they inherit the new path. But that shouldn’t be necessary. This would save a ton of time when batch rendering. Especially for people exporting dozens of comps at once.

Many of use use expressions all the time, but the tools for writing those still feel like a beta version. The CTI overlaps the expression, the expression is contained in the timeline, which can cause confusing situations, errors are not positioned in the right location etc.How great would it be to edit expressions in a separate panel, with a and modern clear UI?

A long time wish: The Fill effect becomes much more versatile, when it could blend with the layer it is applied to. In the current version, it replaces the layer content completely. The effects Opacity setting acts as layer Opacity rather than the effect's Opacity.

Hello.Thank you for considering this suggestion.When working with character animations inside After Effects, it often happens that some motion paths overlap each other (for example when a character swings its arms or moves its hand).The very serious issue is that After Effects does not provide a way to handle the keyframes themselves precisely.Most of the times, when I select a keyframe in the viewport, After Effects selects an other one close by,  making ajusting keyframes that are in very close proximity borderline impossible.Even worse, when I try to adjust a bezier handle, it never gets the right one, and selecting each keyframe to adjust in the timeline doesn't help either.I'm basically asking for a revision of this system, as it makes character animations inside After Effects needlessly sloppy and frustrating.One solution would be to enable a toggle to only display the currently selected keyframe, or alongside it's previous and next ones.I provided an example of what I'm tal

Pwease and Thank You.

It's become so tedious constantly centering the anchor point. (which there is no easy way to do without a 3rd party tool anyways). I'd love an option or mode to keep it centered regardless of the various tunes that are made to the text layer. 

I wish I could pause or deactive a set of keyframes. That way, I don't need to delete them, if I decide I want to use the effect at a later point.Anybody know of a plugin that lets you do this?

I wish we could copy/paste media between projects without them being offline or shown as missing assets. This would be a huge time saver. 

I'd love to have a stop watch next to the material drop down menu for linking materials over multiple meshes.Thank you 🙂

I'm not sure whether there's a work around for this but it's something After Effects hasn't always done. At somepoint over the last year or two the Project window has taken to 'jumping' position, vertically, once the name of a sequence, layer or general asset has been re-named. Or when a new folder or sequence has been created. When working with a large project, with a lot of assets, this can cause a lot of frustration and slow the process down considerably as I try and re-find the area of the folder structure I was working in. Not sure whether it's just my system, or whether there's a solution, but I would love it if it justr stayed where it was.

Hi,Can we get a proper color palette that can stay open, that is much more functional, like you see in C4D?A completely different tab, that artist can keep open all the time? I am surprised that there isn't one already.A long time using. It has been a drag! Thanks,B

Please make this a thing!! Rendering a FRONT or LEFT viewport would be a nice add to the UI...

When you cut a layer, you have to divide it into two layers... why can't we have a featuer that does not need it to be divided in to two layerrs. It will make it so much easier. - Wenai

Changing them all so they look the same at a glance was an insane choice for a company that makes design software.  Change it back.  We won't think less of you. 

I tried the latest AE Beta, but had no luck getting glass or other transparent materials to refract. Is this feature still pending? Or am I missing a parameter/setting?

I just wanted to suggest a small idea. Currently, in After Effects, there's no way to add or access the "Show Post-Expression Graph" feature directly through scripting. It would be really beneficial if we could have a way to do that. So, as a suggestion to Adobe, it would be great if they could find a solution for this, since it would help us a lot in automation and scripting.

Premiere Pro can change a text layer's fill between Solid, Linear, and Radial Gradients. Why not add this to After Effects? A simple drop-down, like so, would suffice: Why not even add an option to switch between a point and parametric mode? Maybe you want some green on the top, a darker yellow on the bottom, and some red on the side. This would work similarly to the 4-color gradient effect, but with infinite colors and points!  

This is a combination of two suggestions: firstly, the ability to add multiple instances of the same layer style to a single layer, and adding a line join option for strokes. Let's begin with the ability to add multiple layer styles on the same layer. I feel this is self-explanatory, and believe that this would greatly benefit many users and save them the hassle of continuously precomposing their layers to simply add more stylization, especially for things like typography that require more than one (or two) strokes. Let's also add the ability to duplicate (CTRL D), copy, paste, and name these styles so we don't confuse ourselves. Speaking of strokes, I love 'em! Not only can you apply them anywhere, but you can even change the stroke alignment. However, one issue that keeps having me come back to the default text stroke option for text, and leaving me with no option for practically anything moving, would have to be Line Joins. Why aren't these here yet?! They're in the t

Hello, when I used expression in my workflow, I want to set a keyframe value for the pre-expression(after caluculation) value.so I used to see the value by eye and then type it.I was wonder why something like this isn't a built-in feauter in after effects.I know that it can be done using scripts, but I think it is essential to be a built-in feature.some recommandation for how it can be implemented.ctrl + (click on add keyframe button, or the stopwatch).or any place where it is near to the add keyframe button.Thanks for reading😊.

Pleaase Adobe I need this!Hello, I was trying to recreate the bezier value curve and integrate it faster using math equations.but, I was shocked to know that you can't read easing information using expression, it felt weird for some reason that you can read the value and the value, but not easing data.It will really really reaaally help me be able to create things that won't be possible like:1 - faster simulation that was O(n), it will be O(1) using faster integration2-getting the pre-expressino value of a property as valueAtTime(t) only gives the post-expression value.I hope it will be added soon.thanks!

It would be great if we could import mogrt files, ideally from libraries, into AE. I'm working on a large collection of projects that requires me to have different "Presets" that I may import into each video to then use. Currently I have these all saved as AE projects, but it would be great if I could have them in my Libraries panel for easy importing, and since libraries already supports mogrt files, I think a good easy solution would be to support importing these into AE. We can already open mogrts in AE, so this doesn't seem like it's out of the range of feasibility. Alternatively, adding comps or projects to Libraries would be great, but this feels like it would be more complicated. Many thanks!