Feature Requests

In the Preferences\Appearance tab it would be great if we could select a custom color for the "Highlight Color". This would make the UI more customizable and personal to each user. The old color used to be yellow and the current color is blue. But it would be amazing to be able to select any color from a pop up color picker, like we can do for the Label colors. This would be great to change it for fun for a holiday like red for valentine's day or green for St-Paddy's day etc. Please make this happen! I know it's not a top priority, but it would make every user very happy I am sure. Thanks

Most of us professional AE users have machines with quite a lot of RAM these days - mine has 128GB. It is really frustrating when I'm trying to render something, and AE fails due to the 2GB per frame internal memory limit. Using Power Pin in a 32-bit 4K comp will often give this error. Why does this limit still exist? I know 2GB per frame is a lot of data, but in 2023 we are working on machines that can handle that easily.

Create a function to select a layers Children.And also a way to select all layers in a compa, apart from the layers that have parents. This is uselful when creating a new master null and wanting to group everything to the new group, appart of course for the layers that have already been carefull parented to eachother...

Hey nice for you for giving us 2025 After Effects update.But any news about using all effects on 32 bit? 

Current Situation Currently, the interaction between After Effects and Premiere Pro seems rather rudimentary and coarse: AE compositions containing animated text are imported into PP as pixel graphics, not vector graphics. So, upscaling them in PP renders them ragged.It's not possible to import PP sequences into AE for adding visual finishing touches to the sequence. You need to render them first in PP and import the rendered footage then into AE.By rendering, artifacts are added to the material as the rendered result is saved using a lossy compression format.Moreover, it's currently wasting a lot of valuable working time for rendering a PP sequence first for the result to be rendered in AE again. Desired Situation Why are AE and PP two separate programs at all? Why the back and forth? In a collaborative environment, every member of a PP project may focus on their distinct tasks within PP. So, this is my feature request: Just add AE effects and effect expressio

Adobe After Effects 1. Clip Organization: The way multiple clips are handled is cumbersome. Compared to Premiere Pro, the clipboard becomes messy when importing multiple clips, especially when they need to be placed on different sections of the timeline. This forces users to create multiple layers, which consumes memory and slows After Effects down.2. Color Codec in Composition Settings: There should be an option to change the color codec from Rec. 702 within composition settings, especially since other color formats are often used in Premiere Pro projects.3. Popular Plugin Integration: Plugins like BCC, Twixtor, Boris FX, Magic Bullet, and Re:Vision Effects are expensive. Since we’re already paying a significant amount for Adobe software, these popular effects should be included as built-in features.

It is beyond me why the disc cache is not cleared when updating to a new version of AE…I was running low on space and could not figure out why, until i realized there was still the maximum amount of cache for several older versions (the apps itself were uninstalled when i updated automatically). so my idea: just clear the old cache when updating!

Support for emojis in text layers.Social media and chat based apps have made emojis not only commonplace but jettisoned them into the common visual lexicon.  The ability to incorporate emojis repeatedly & easily through text based layers will prevent commen errors in workflow and allow for copying and pasting of larger texts that use emojis. Thank you!

Importing projects with editable texts from Photoshop or Illustrator into After Effects only works with the Photoshop project, Illustrator is disabled. It would also be really cool to work with Illustrator to animate texts as editable fonts  

Why Can't we import SVGs into After Effects the same way you can import EPS or AI files?... SVG files can be opened in Illustrator without any conversion, so why cant there simply be a bridge to allow import in AE?

Please add mogrt batch export functionality to After Effects.I will try to describe the current exporting process the best I can.Click the "Export Motion Graphics Template..." button -> Being asked to Save the project -> Wait for After Effects to Save and apparently iterate through every comp for some reason -> Wait for project to open -> Write mogrt tags -> Wait for mogrt to saveDepending on the project, this process might take several minutes. Did you seriously expect your users that might need to export dozens of templates to do this manually? It literally means wasting hours just exporting files in one of the most tedious processes I've ever experienced. Has this not been considered or is it just too difficult to implement?

I think it's interesting that the OCIO config titles are taken from the folder names as it allows for custom titles separate from the config file name itself but it's problematic at the same time.   Currently the ACES version and config build version is mentioned but not the OCIO version.  I personally think the names should be the same as the config file names to completely and properly reflect what is being used so it can also be referenced against other configs in other software if needed. Like Photoshop for example...     Furthermore the Description field should not give a generic description of how AE handles the config. It should contain the actual description of the config itself like in Photoshop.   AE: PS:   I hope this will be considered and improved. Thanks for reading.

After Effects is set up to read the folder names as OCIO config titles and will pick the first in order as default when either opening a new project, or switching from Adobe managed.   I think this is problematic because ACES 1.2 is a legacy config that nobody should use ideally. (removing it in next release would be even better imo, ACES 2.0 will release soon and there'll be too many pre-installed configs).   The ideal would be that the Studio variant with latest ACES version and the latest OCIO config version is picked by default.   Furthermore I think AE should remember the chosen settings (even if it's custom) when exiting the software or switching back and forth between OCIO and Adobe managed.

I would like it when the Fill Layer resulting from a Content-Aware Fill has no 'holes' at the frames where a reference frame was created. That would allow us to remove the reference frames after the Fill Layer is created. Maybe a switch to switch to this new proposed feature on and off?

Could the devs please add some options to the guides when you right-click on them? It would be handy to have:- Clear Guide- Clear All Guides- Clear All Horizontal Guides- Clear All Vertical Guides- Snap Guide (to pixels)

Please bring back the original rendering info panel. In After Effects 2022 and older versions when rendering there was more information about what AE was doing. If you turn down the "Current Render" tab it would tell you what frame, layer, and action it was on. This was very helpful to understand what parts of a comp is slowing down the redner or causing errors. Please bring this feature back. Thank you. 

Use OptiX for 3d renders but sometimes it does more harm than good baking it into renders. There are artifacts esp when you use it in scenes with volumetrics that aren't processed well by the denoiser. It would be much more useful to push the denoising process entirely into post so we can have more fine control. It would be amazing if AE had OptiX denoising built-in. I understand that the OptiX code/libraries etc are all publicly available to use in any applicationThanksR.

Since it's now 2024 and it was implemented in 2020(ish) there has been no further integration of the ProEXR plug in. So I'd like to request that the functionality of ProEXR be integrated fully into the Render Que.Currently we only have the following options.While the ProEXR exporter has the following that are inaccessible by the RenderQue options.The "Include layer composite" is clutch cargo when trying to deliver embedded mattes to a DI house (or really any number of other reasons).Right now the access to the rendering of layered composites can not be queued, or access by any other tools and this is a drag since it also can not given post render actions, scripted, or accessed by scripting tools like Automation Blocks (my current favorite non-Adobe tool in AE). Thanks for your consideration and hopeful implementation.

Having to use a 3rd party plugin like Duik, Rubberhose, Limber etc is fine BUT it is nowhere near as fast as using something like ToonBoom, Cavalry or Adobe Animate when animating characters. It basically prevents decent complex character animations in After Effects as it just takes too long as it thinks... and thinks... and thinks. Please Adobe. Fix it. 

Something that happens EVERY time we use EXR sequences in After Effects, we have to right-click on the footage (there is no File menu equivalent)Interpret Footage->Main and then select the color tab and "Preserve RGB". It would be super helpful to be able to set these values in these sub tabs with a script event that can be accessed with the scripting language or Automation Blocks system.

Can we please combine the stroke and fill options window and have a hold click for fill and stroke styles in 2025? It's sort of insane that it takes ten clicks to change the style and color of both fill and stroke. Also, adding a color should enable the stroke or fill and you should also have the option to either put stroke over fill or fill over stroke. 

Description:Currently, this is only panel that doesn’t automatically update when you switch to a different active composition. If it’s going to lock to a different target comp, there should be a lock icon like Effect Controls and Comp/Layer/Footage viewer panels. Additionally, if the lock icon was added, then it should match the logic when new unlocked panels automatically open when you already have a panel of that type locked.(e.g. Lock your Effect Controls panel, switch to a different comp, and double-click on an effect’s name in the timeline. A new unlocked Effect Controls panel opens next to the previous panel.) This additional panel would then give the user the ability to work with multiple EG panels at once. This could be very handy when designing multiple EG settings/mogrts that should look identical/similarily. Why:Often times, I try to add properties to the wrong EG comp, just to be greeted with an error. (It could be said that instead of an error, it should aut

Due to the precise alignment of yet un-named stars, I find myself with two Comps, both with identical names in the Project Panel.So, with current constructs, I can't find a way to ascertain which was the one that was edited last nor can I find which comp contibutes more to the overall AEP filesize; thinking that there is a good correlation between a larger Comp Size and most-recently edited. Number of layers may not be ideal if there are tons of Expressions or Compound Shape Layers - all happily tidied away within the Timeline. So, I'm ideating for a Date Modified Column as well as a Comp Filespace/Datasize Column in the Project Panel. We do have a Size Column, so perhaps should work as a container for a Comp's FileSize/Dataspace.FWIW, the workaround is tedious, manual and hence, painful. 

For complex situations, I work a lot with PreComps that I prerender to make a final composite.How great would it be when Ae could help in a modern way to manage this.I think of adding a 'Freeze' switch to each layer, as already kind of exists for RotoScoped footage layers..Another great example of this workflow it how Logic Pro does this: simple click a freeze button, and the track / layer is rendered. Unfreeze brings it back to an editable version. This would streamline these kind of workflows, without a lot of hazzle.

I often use one matte layer for many layers at once, but inverted.Especially when keying.So i use a tracked matte to separate the head/hair from the body, as it needs different keying settings.This matte is then used as an alpha matte for the head and an inverted alpha matte for the body.But then you run into problems with antialiasing, or visible seams, because of the different keying settings.It would be nice to have the possibility to contract/expand and blur to have an overlap (expand matte) with a transition (blur).THX