Feature Requests

Hi After Effects Team, Thanks so much for your great work on the programm throughout the years.  Here's one (hopefully) small thing that would make our lives easier for project backups: Please give us the option to define our own default folder names for (Footage) when collecting files through "File > Dependencies > Collect Files".  My company works with an archive server that requires a file naming convention similar to web file names. Therefore it does not permit brackets and other special characters (including character spaces) in the file name structures to prevent problems between users on Macs and PCs.   So this generally poses the following problems for me (I'll be using XYZ_assets as a placeholder in the following): 1) Illustrator and Photoshop files are generally imported in their own folder "XYZ_assets layers". I manually remove the character spaces and change this to "XYZ_assets_layers" every time after import, and

The "solid Composite" effect is something I use all the time (it's very handy for making sure blend modes work correctly for lighting effects). However, for some unknowable reason, the default color it's set to use is white, not black. Can this be changed to black? It would probably end up saving me (and others!) hours of work over the course of a year!

Let's say I have a composition with 50+ layers and the majority of them have keyframes. If I need to select all the keyframes across a certain duration, I have to click and drag down past the bottom of the composition panel to trigger the scroll down so I can select other layers' keyframes. Sometimes this can be very laggy and I find myself rolling my eyes and waiting until it automatically scrolls all the way to the bottom. It would be nice to also be able to use my scroll wheel to just quickly scroll all the way to the bottom while selecting keyframes. This would help by not disrupting my flow and save me time in animation.

Has After Effects gone all the way to version 24 without a built in composition helper –  similar to the ones in Cinema 4D, or is it buried deeper than I have looked so far?

when I toggle a couple layers "Solo" to test out something, and I hide a layer also with the Eye icon ("hide video"), when I unhide the Eye layer, it misses that it was set to "Solo"pitty. 

Hello Adobe community !I was wondering why when i want to change the time of a makerValue, i need to create a duplication and setValue in the needed time.Why there is no attribute called time in the markerValue that is Read/Write.it will be a good thing to haveThank you for Reading !

I have many animations made with layers of animated shapes, which I use regularly, but I have a hard time finding them in the different projects and sequences to which they belong.It would be very nice to have some sort of personal animation library where you can at least upload animations made with shape layers.

Please introduce Warp stabilize only on the active comp lenght!

Hello,  Super simple idea but massive time saver across time :  We often need to go from vertical to horizontal and vice versa, could you please implement a one click button that allows the user to switch the vertical and horizontal values for comp sizes, similar to the button you would have on a travel website to switch your destinations . Currently if I need to go from 1920x1080 to 1080x1920 , I would have to click once , type 4 numbers, click a second time, and type 4 more numbers => That is 10 actions that could be done by a single one Thanks in advance Best 

I can right-click on a position keyframe and edit... please make this possible for audio keyframes!!

My file comp naming was used to look like picture 1, it was easy to select and export all of them at once, now i have to manually pick them all 1 by 1, and it's tedious and completely broke my workflow. Imagine manually picking 250 comp per episode. Before this I just shift clicked all 250 comp and render overnight. Problem: I had to import PL_101_SQ01_SC001.mov(animation) and PL_101_SQ01_SC001-01.psd(background art) into "PL_101_SQ01_SC001" comp which i finally exported to video. Now my final comp and background comps are all mixed.  So i cant update after effects to new version, i'm stuck with AE 23 version for a long time because of this. Solution, make file name sorting an option like in photoshop. Enable legacy panel name sorting

After Effects has become an apalling mess and Adobe is a joke of a company.  Why on earth are the new features etc., being driven by your marketing department instead of what users want and need?  We're in a ridiculous position where updating After Effects with the hope of fixing one lot of bugs just introduces a whole load more.  Can someone with a bit of backbone at Adobe suggest to their bosses that they are f***ing the company?  The ONLY reason I still have CC is because they offered me money off when I went to cancel, but I'm slowly shifting my workflow away from Adobe completely because they cannot make a decent piece of software.  Adobe, please DO YOUR JOB so that I can do mine!  

Managing Swatches using libraries and the eyedropper tool is just too many steps for an action that should be very simple and has been present in other Adobe apps for 20 years+ now. Just add a swatches palette, Im a little baffled that this doesn't exist, just copy how Illustrator and InDesign do it. To change colors I just select the object, click the swatch. boom done. Using the eyedropper and libararies involves so many more clicks, seems like a real oversight. Is there some technical reason why this doesnt exist?

right click on the Comp Window header > Enable Auto-keyframe: Why is this Stop Watch not visible all the time to toggle on/off?thanks for reading and thumbs up 🙂

Would be nice, if there more space at the bottom.in the Comp Window and the Project Window.I can move all the Footage all the way up, but it stops at the lowest bottom. Would be better to work and create NEW stuff (right mouse button)thanks for reading and thumbs up 🙂

Currently when a media replacement essential property is used, a new comp is created under a "Media Replacement Comps" folder. However, if you later change the source of this media replacement, a new comp is created but the old one isn't removed. In a large project, this could end up with dozens of unused media replacement comps. With most comps that are in use, clicking on them in the Project panel reveals a "used X times" indicator next to the file's preview. Media replacement comps that are in use don't share this behaviour, and in fact are shown in the Project panel when filtering to show only "Unused" items. If you were to delete these seemingly unused items, then any media replacement property is returned to its default state. I would like to request that media replacement comps also show the "used X times" indicator, and that any that are in use are tagged as such, so that they are correctly filtered.

The Radial Shadow effect could be much more useful when a Blending Mode could be selected.Most of the time shadows need to be multiplied, but this effect only uses opacity to stack the shadow on the background. Same applies to Drop Shadow effect.

here is a screen recording how it helps, I have attached it belowif it not opens then go to this linkhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1icG9wvKeF-tWknzRRbe25BBthXRsY0Wb/view?usp=sharing 

I suggest adding updates to After Effects, such as Moho features, to move characters on After Effects

I can Separate Dimensions for the main hero Position.   But any place else there’s a keyable position (e.g., text animator, etc..) the Separate Dimensions is greyed out.   Fix this.

Using Bezier Warp is great, but would be better if we could make it so that the tangents can be, as a choice, locked to the vertex, so when I move a vertex the tangents points are also moved relative to that vertex. That would make resizing the layer much more efficient and for better workflow.

for eG Matte Choker, Auto Contrast and Extract.

Hello,I'm working in after effects on macbook air 2020 the app won't go into fullscreen mode.Link to explanation here.So I am writing here just as a prompt to the developers to make fullscreen possible.Thanks

After Effects is kind of luckluster of effects, and features. So this is why I had made this suggestion. New Shake Category: • Cross Shake• Turbulent Shake• Shake Zoom• Criss-cross Shake• Diagonal Shake• Pulse Shake• Focus ShakeAnd more!  More Transition effects: • Circular Scale• Morph• Mosaic• Grid Zoom• Shape ScaleAnd more!     I'm trying to make an easy and simple video edit, but It's a bit too intricate to make the effects quick and simple so yeah.

I think it'd be a good Idea to be able to grab the pickwhip and drag it onto the composition window onto an layer there. If I have a giant project with lots of layers it takes a while to pick whip it to the layer I want.