Feature Requests

Hi, Despite the welcome addition of user choice to install Cinema4D alongside AE or not I keep getting frustrated by the fact that this gets asked every time you click the Update button. I'm running AE Beta next to the main release which gets frequent updates. Every time I need to turn that off to prevent a cinema install which I'm already managing myself with a normal Cinema license. It would be great to give us the option to always ignore this install request completely.

When rendering a project with particularly large files, the gpu can run out of memory, aborting the render and throwing the error attached below.I'd like to suggest a third option other than GPU Acceleration (CUDA) or Software Only exclisively where, should the render fail, GPU rendering falls back to software only upon error.  Acknowleging that the render quality may be slightly different, sometimes completing this render and queue as a whole is more important than ensuring parity.Error mentioned above:"After Effects has encountered a failure related to GPU-enabled effects on this frame. This is likely because your GPU is out of memory. Please decrease your rendering resolution, close applications that may be using GPU resources, or set this project to render effects using "Mercury Software Only" in File -> Project Settings -> Video Rendering and Effects. VR effects do not render using software only, and can require large amounts of GPU VRAM."

Why has Adobe after all these years not implemeted a text to path feature in After Effects. I have to jump through hoops everytime trying to remeber how this is done. The point is, its useed often and not brought in at any stage of updates. Ive been using AE for about 15 years, and we were doing text along a path then, why did AE go through iterations of CS1 - CS6, then on to creative cloud and never add in the feature. Its lazy. Its simple code that should be in the usr interface as a button. one clecik. I do not understand how people can be in fulltime employent and be so incompetent. Everybody in the creative community would say yes we need and use this feature. So why is it not there?

Hi there,in the Keyframe Velocity window there is the "Continuous (Lock Outgoing to Incomimg)" checkbox, which when clicked, copies the incoming speed of a keyframe to the outgoing speed, and locks them together.Every time i need to ease into a continuous motion, I find myself manually copying the outgoing speed to the ingoing before locking them. This can happen multiple times per work session.It would save me a lot of time to have a choice of locking direction - Incoming to Outgoing or vice versa.Thanks for reading!

I know it's super silly nitpicking, but has anyone noticed what reads on the dialogue when importing Jpegs? It says PNG Sequence, Illustrator/PDF/EPS Sequence & so on for the others, but for some reason reads "ImporterJpeg Sequence" when comes to Jpegs only. I always thought it was a bug, perhaps related to the French interface, but never changed for ages. Does anyone know the reason/story behind it? Cheers

Consider this:I have 3 text layers, two of which are linked to the "master" layer (via a simple "thisComp.layer("master").text.sourceText" expression).I then change the text on the master layer to be Paragraph Text and tweak the dimensions of  the bounding box. The other text layers do not update to reflect this. I suggest they should do.Or is there a way, using text attributes in an expression, to copy the paragraph layout?

I would like the option to remove frame numbers from exports. When I export a single frame PNG I can use the 'Output To:' function but it doesn't give me the option to remove the five digit frame number. I'm aware of 'Snapshot' 'Save Frame As' and plugins like Gifgun and AEJuice export GIF but I am exporting 200+ comps at a time and need to use the render queue and automation processes. Using a bulk renaming program would work but adds another, unwanted step to the process. Thanks

.mogrts are a great way to create stylized transitions and such, but the inability to add markers that are viewable within Premiere creates inconvenience when actually putting these into use. Being able to send an AE timeline marker back into Premiere within the mogrt would be hugely helpful!

Perhaps add a  >>  (to indicate a Fly Out Meny) to the left edge of the Vertical Margin that separates the Columns Section and the Timeline Section.    

I'm sure this has been asked for before, but I know I'm not alone in wanting character and/or paragraph styels in AE, which would behave exactly lkike those in InDesign/Illustrator (except with a few animatable parameters maybe!). I've just watched @JohnColombo17100380 and friends on YouTube, and will (for now) be implementing an adaptation of their expression. But it's a lot of faff compared to adding a style in Ai/Id etc! Could we please have character styles / paragraph styles in AE?

I just really want a separate Expression panel, like the effects panel, where I can write expressions, and see what I'm writing without having to resize the text box on the timeline every time.Don't really care about coloured text or any of that other functionality. Just a simple text box.

Hello Adobe Community and Product Teams, I want to share an idea aimed at significantly improving our experience with resource-intensive Creative Cloud applications, such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, Media Encoder, and potentially others. --- ### **The Current Problem: The Local Performance Bottleneck** We love the power of Adobe tools, but many of us face major challenges: * **Prohibitive rendering and encoding times:** Hours of waiting for complex projects, which hinders creativity and productivity.* **High hardware requirements:** The need to invest in expensive workstations to achieve acceptable performance.* **Slowdowns and lack of fluidity:** Choppy previews, less responsive interfaces on heavy projects, even on good machines.* **Lack of flexibility:** Difficulty working efficiently on less powerful machines or on the go. These factors limit our ability to fully exploit the potential of the software and meet our deadlines. --- ### **The

This is a request to revert the decision to always override effects parameters when copy/pasting effects of the same type in Effects Panel. Existing flow:Make two layers with the same type of effect applied with different parameters between layers.Copy the effect in Effects Panel of Layer 1.Select Layer 2 to with existing effect of the same type.Paste copied effect using Cmd+V in the Effects Panel of Layer 2.Result: the parameters of pasted effect from Layer 1 always override the parameters of existing effect over Layer 2.Expected result: if the effect on Layer 2 is selected when pasting, the paramters of copied effect should override existing parameters; if it is not selected — pasted effect should be stacked as a new instance below. This experience of copy/pasting effects is currently inconsistent — it changes depending when you paste over layer with one effect instance of the same type, or with more than one, and thus feels broken, and complicates usual workflow: for 

I have a lot of pairs of keyframes, that both need to stay on the same value. A way to link two keyframes to each other and being able to change the value of two keyframes as one would be great.

Hi,I just noticed you can't import multiple layer styles from Photoshop PSD file into after effects. Ie If I have 5 Innershadow Layer styles in my Photoshop PSD file, After effects will only import 1 of those Layer styles.Can this be adjusted so After effects will import all of the Layer style stack including multiples of the same style?

I think it would be useful to borrow the Lock Workspace feature from Photoshop for After Effects, esp with the wide use of so many scripts and CEP panels in many workflows. I accidentally pull off tabs or slide them around in my day-to-day use of AE, esp since I’m using a Wacom pen most of the time.I’m sure there’s some wrinkles to consider, esp when switching Workspaces while locked - do you prompt with a pop-up or automatically switch it?

Please make it possible to have the audio in the maincomp and then every comp that is in the main comp will be able to play the audio as well in exactly the place where it's at - please!

I've been LOVING the improvements in RotoBrush 3, and it's come in quite handy for pulling external alpha mattes for Resolve colorgrading. However, the one thing that slows the workflow down is that you currently (as of AE 24.4.1) cannot batch export multichannel EXR files. You have to do it manually, one at a time, using the ProEXR exporter in the "Save Frame As…" menu. This really slows down my workflow because I have to monitor each EXR export, then manually export the next comp when the. previous one has completed. It would be a huge timesaver if you could render comps to multichannel EXRs via the Render Queue instead, rather than using the "Save Frame As…" menu.

Sometimes I want to lable a clip in my project and want to see that same label also in the timeline.In Premiere we have a switch for that ("show name and lable of the source clip") which switches between timeline and source label:(sorry, at the moment I just have German UI) In After Effects, we are able to switch between layer and source name by clicking on the column header: but there is no way to do the same for the label.This would be a nice addition for the labeling in After Effects. 

Similar to the idea of how InDesign works (where you can nest InDesign files in other InDesign files) and designs have rippling impact, I'd love to be able to import an AEP into a current file. Not only import it, but selectively choose composition I'm interested in. That comp would act simply like a layer in my timeline. Bonus points, any Essential Properties created would be surfaced. Like with Photoshop or Illustrator files, any changes made in the source (once saved) would be refreshed and pulled back into my existing composition.Extra bonus points if this is something that could be somewhat without limit. Coming from the world of UI / UX motion, this would solve a massive need for standard components. We could build out individual elements and bits of motion that are effectively classes of elements, that we'd continue to plug into additional projects.  So a key UI element could have easily 4 or 5 different "AEP layers" in it.  Treat it like a layer. It has

Using Essential Properties is amazing, but sometimes it gets confusing to see where all of the controls pipe. Feature request for a high-level view of being able to see Comps, control names, and where they're all connected to would be much appreciated. Often times, I come back to projects a few weeks or months after the fact and simply can't remember how I made something work. This would be a great visual to at least see what is driving everything and trace it back to the source. Additionally, everyone keeps asking about nodes in AE.. but this feels like a way where you could visually and somewhat easily plug controls upstream into various comps depending on needs of the project or logical choke-points for the controls.Right now, while the Essential Properties Panel is great, its also slow to navigate, find something, reveal where it is in the timeline, disconnect it / delete the control.  

It would be helpful to be able to properly tab through the contents of the Essential Properties panel. Currently, if I click on the first property's name and then press Tab, it'll take me to that property's value. Pressing Tab a second time takes me to Property 2's value, rather than Property 2's label. If I then Shift-Tab, I can jump backwards to Property 2's label. However, if I continue to Shift-Tab, to work backwards, it doesn't jump back up to Property 1's label or value, but rather to its slider (or other control). Pressing Shift-Tab again then takes me to the Name field of the EP panel. It would make changing the names and values of EPs much quicker and easier if Tab/Shift-Tab just cycled through each property and attribute of the EP panel in turn, including the panel's dropdowns and buttons.

can we have it?that the parent whip can connect to the objects on the preview panel so we don't have to navigate tons of layers to parent our wanted layer

One of the best features about the EGP is that you can put controls at various levels of a nested composition. While designing, I might want something immediately accessible, but when I start to animate, I might need more controls and some of the same further up. Users already have this functionality but unfortunately, its very laborious. A simple way to say "this control" should be "surfaced to the top" would mean I can always see that particular control no matter how many times I precompose something or move things around. Its a small quality of life update but one that I would truly welcome. It shouldn't be a global on/off, but rather selective to the particular control in need.

I'd love it if when you add a Null, I could have the layer selected add the null and have the layer selected automatically parent to the null. This could be used on multiple layers selected too. That way, you're not having to parent layers to the same null one by one.