Feature Requests

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. 

Can we add a tool that select with straight lines in the rotobrush, as it will come very handy when we're roto tables or buldings and anything with sharp edges, it can be the polygonal lasso tool in photoshop

When i select multiple text layers and i need to convert them to shape layers the "convert to shape layers" is greyed outI need to have the ability to change them at once

I often jump between the value and speed graphs, especially when working with a combined X and Y position property and other properties. There's a keyboard shortcut to open the graph editor itself, but what about a keyboard shortcut to quicky toggle between the two? I know you can right click and switch but saving extra few clicks would speed things up over the course of a project. Thanks!

As someone who works with a removable cache disk on many work stations, I hereby suggest replacing the After Effects error(s) dialogs such as:'Disk Cache folder doesn't exist ... so wil be reset to system temporary directory.'with a simple dialog box prompting you to relocate/relink the cache to a directory of your choosing.This would provide several benefits:Allow a user to connect your removable disk and proceed without doing the tedious extra step of going into the system settings and relocating there.Allow you to choose another directory easily if your removable media is unavailable or full.Still allow anyone to hit 'cancel' to default to the system temporary directory as normal with the same amount of clicks.Any other similar error messages that I'm not thinking of right now could implement this relinking dialog for an overall streamlined workflow and improved quality of life.

When lots of layers populate a Layer Control drop menu, it will be good to have icons such as Lock, Visible Shy - will be much quicker to make selections since it's quite often layers that are lumped together have similar names.Also, if I accidentally hit CTRL + SHIFT + W, is there a way to at least get the last comp/timeline I was at, and/or is there a Toll-free Number to call for assistance? If no, then this is not a good shortcut to have cos it's quite disruptive. 

Hi all, a bit of a fewbie posting here.Why can't AE go on native MacOS Fullscreen? Photoshop now does, and I think that would be useful for AE too.Any reason for this being not currently possible? I have the latest version of AE as of March 2025.Is this in the future updates pipeline?TY–Giovanni

when released date exactly for adobe research like Project Music GenAI Control and i need request photoshop for audio or add feature on firefly name " rewrite or redub text edit for video or audio"

Hi,I recently created a template for “Essential Graphics” and I was annoyed that the default thumbnail was a black image (since the animation starts in the black image). When I was looking for a way to change the thumbnail, it was only with difficulty that I realized that the translation of the terms was simply unfavorable:- The button to set a “poster frame” / “thumbnail” is labeled "Veröffentlichungszeit festlegen" (=“Set publish time”).That makes no sense:"Solo-unterstützte Eigenschaften" also is a strange wording that shows entities that can be animated. Maybe you could find a better translation in the next edition 😉 Used Version of After Effects: 25.0.1 Best wishes

"The name of the selected Output Module is already in use" This message pops up when two Comps have the same Output Filename.Has nothing to do with the name of the Output Module - a confusing message. Please make the message more descriptive by supplying the involved Comp name - hard to find in a project with hundreds of Comps.

I didn't know that the you still can't animate the focal lenght until I needed it today.

It would be great for AE to begin supporting normals relighting and STMap texture projection. Fortunately, Normality still works, but the STMapping can get a little jagged, and the AE lights it supports are limited. It seems to be well past the time for AE to support these things, especially as actual-3D workflows are increasingly a part of the program.

Hopeful there will be a way to create a font list of fonts with, say ... more than 3 weights. In this say and age, more often than not, users want a typeface with multiple font weights. Being able to create a font list of such typefaces will be a great boost for productivity, design and world peace.In AE, lots of users could use with a lot more options in the area of Decorative/Symbol fonts. Unfortunately, the number and quality of such typefaces at Adobe Font is largely of poor quality and damning in quantity. It's quite shocking actually.  

I love after effects. It's great. I've been using it for 25 years or more. But the tracker is a sad relic of an ancient, dead civilisation. In resolve you draw a mask, click track and it's done. Click detect face, click track, and it's done. Someone will invariably say just use mocha but thats not what anyone doing this day to day wants, people want to pick a point or draw a mask and click track and it be done, not to open a seperate clumsy, cumbersome interface to do really basic stuff like this, that is one click in other apps, and actually works reliably every time. AE tracker is excrutiatingly slow and unreliably and requires absurd amounts of manual intervention just to track basic things. Please please pretty please, with sugar on top: give us a modern tracker.  It's about time the built in tracker in AE was updated so AE users can experience the warm, magical glow of click track and it's done.(You would think AI would be perfect for this)R.

Like you can across multiple Transform parameters, it would be useful to be able to simultaneously copy and paste multiple Essential Graphics parameters across their values. Currently, this can only be done one parameter at a time.

I don't currently see a way to generate simple 3d primitives such as cone shapes directly inside AE without a plugin... or a way to create new translucent textures and outlines within the app as well. Currently I am experimenting with Spline.Design to achieve what you see in the attached screenshots, but it seems to me that AE should be capable of this kind of simple 3D modeling/texturing. I understand that Substance is being promoted for 3D purposes, but that seems like overkill for my needs and would prefer to stick with AE if possible. 

Bonjour Adobe,Je travaille régulièrement avec des fichiers MOGRT (Motion Graphics Templates) entre After Effects et Premiere Pro, et je rencontre un problème récurrent. Actuellement, lorsque j'étends la durée d'un MOGRT dans Premiere Pro, tous les effets animés basés sur le temps ralentissent proportionnellement, et cela avec n'importe quel effet continu.J'ai essayé différentes solutions comme les expressions personnalisées, les régions protégées, et d'autres astuces, mais rien ne semble fonctionner correctement. L'effet reste lié à la durée du MOGRT dans Premiere Pro, causant un ralentissement indésirable des animations.Mon idée serait d'intégrer une option permettant d'utiliser le temps de la composition d'origine dans After Effects, indépendamment de l'étirement du MOGRT dans Premiere Pro.Cela pourrait se faire via une expression dédiée ou un paramètre supplémentaire, garantissant que les effets d'animation conservent leur rythme initial, peu importe la durée attribuée au MOGRT dans

It would be helpful to have an Expression Control effect that was a text input field. Having a place to store and reference text strings other than Text layers' Source Text or Marker comments would be useful when creating expression rigs that use strings to reference parts of layer, group, or effect names.

Hi, It would be great if the Puppet pin tool in After Effect had a Stick tool similar the one in Character Animator 👍All the best!

Hey Community,I don’t like having to search for scripts under the Window tab every time. I’d prefer a search menu similar to the Effects menu, where I can simply type the script name or have them organized by categories. When you have multiple comps open, it can take quite a while to find the right script, especially since you only have those small up and down arrows to navigate.Best regards,Mischel

As a working professional in the motion space, I think having the ability to copy and paste images from Photoshop into after effects compositions/library seamlessly would improve the workflow between the apps. Much like how you can do this in Adobe Animate ( former Flash ), it allows you to paste from Photoshop and Illustrator seamlessly. I often like to import 'reference' frames from approved layouts as guides when I animate and construct my various compositions. This works so well in Adobe Animate, why not in After Effects?  Thank you for your consideration. Adrian

It would be great to be able to open the essential graphics panel with the correct root-comp already selected by right clicking on a pre-comp layer in the timeline, the same way it works from the project window.  It would be much easier and faster to navigate by right-clicking in the layers where you're actually working. It's a hassle to have to use Reveal Layer Source in Project or worse, search for the primary-comp you want in the huge dropdown in the Essential Graphics panel.