Feature Requests

In the precomp dialogue box, have a pulldown that allows you to choose a specific folder where you want your precomp to go.  Then every precomp after that will have all precomps go to the chosen folder until you choose another folder, like how solids always go to the solids folder.  It would make keeping my project a lot needer and save time having to drag each precomp I make to the folder "Comp 01 Precomps", "Comp 02 Precomps"

For some time now we have had roundness control on shapes within Illustrator and Photoshop, and that hasn't necessarily disseminated properly down to AFX. When drawing a square mask with round corners, you get one shot when you create the mask, and then that control is gone. If you created a square mask, there's no way to then create rounded corners. Why not instead of having two square mask options, having a rounding control like Illustrator to be able to round all corners, and be able to lock those controls for each corner together, or be able to adjust them independently?If this could also be added to other shapes of masks too - even better!We have roundness for parametric rectangles in shape layers, so why not masks?  Additionally, this is only a simplified roundness that affects all corners. Again, we should be able to disconnect this and have per-corner roundness control on shape layers too.

Hii Team,I suggest you to  add MXF file format in After Effect , which is available in previous version but not available in latest version Adobe after Effects 2024 i suggest you to Add mxf file format in After Effect 2024 .​as a direct export option from After Effects only rather than going through Media Encoder.just a suggestion for better ecperience for the user.  

I wish Adobe had some more transition effects, so this is why I made a suggestion for exactly that so that it will be easier for beginners to use the software. New Transition Effects: 1. PolyhedronThis effect will create a polyhedron transition. This can be configurable by these settings: the amount of sides, enabling blur, blur sharpness, completion, size and etc.. 2. CC Wheel WipeThis effect will create a wheel wiping transition. This effect can be customizable with these settings: amount of strokes, types of strokes, blur sharpness, completion and direction. 3. CC PuzzleThis effect creates a puzzle transition that then zooms in. This effect can be configured with these controls: completion, pieces, blur, and more. 4. CC FragmentThis effect will show fragments of the video and stack on each other then blend in with the solid, video, or image. This effect can be configurable with these settings: number of fragments, completion, size, scatter, and mor

The old way that AE handled track mattes allowed for the use of keyboard shortcuts to assign Alpha, Inverse Alpha, Luma, and Inverse Luma track mattes to layers. I'm not really sure how this would work from a UI perspective, but being able to navigate to a layer and use a shortcut to assign a track matte mode and then point to another layer, maybe via the keypad, would speed things up for me.

New Track Matte functionality in AE 2023 is pretty cool, the UI needs to change to accomodate the fact that layer names are usually pretty long.  Picture below should be pretty self-explanitory.  In order to see the full name of a layer in the track matte column, you have to drag out the column separator, which is anchored to both the mode and track matte columns.  This is a waste of space in the Mode column and there's no other way to adjust this.  Being able to adjust the columns independently would fix this.  

Feature Request Render Queue Preference to auto-open the Finder or Windows Explorer to rendered file after rendering. Anubis does this and it is very convenient.

Would be nice to align a layer to another layer as a key object selection., where that selection stays put but everything else lines up to it.

Currently, I can read the style attributes per character using sourceTextProperty.getStyleAt(index). I should be able to set the styling in the same way, but instead you can only set it for the entire layer at once.  This would be a game-changer for MOGRTs and Essential Graphics as well, if I could copy the kerning from a live text layer and have it pass all that information to my EGP comp, it would be next level in terms of how much MOGRTs could accomplish.   For example, I have a stacked font that needs multiple layers to achieve the effect my client is looking for.  I also need to adjust leading/baseline shift etc, and doing this for each instance is repetitive and error-prone. If I could use a simple for-loop to copy this character by character this would significantly lessen the amount of work this takes.   Even better would be a set of additional methods that could set it all at once - something like .sourceText, but inclusive of all styling— .source

Since I (and my team) are used to scrolling with the mouse in other Adobe programs, it is always a challenge to get used to zooming in Adobe After Effects. It would be so much easier to be able to disable this option.

I think there should be a dedicated button somewhere on the bottom array of button of the composition window depicting whether the idol frame caching is on or off because when you use a shorctut you can't tell immediately whether you've pressed it or not as the defult hotkeys are alt shift I is rather long and you really could have missed some of the keys sometimes...The clear button state would make a so much better UX here.Currently I stick to an option for rightclicking on the empty space of the timeline and going to preview>cache frames when idol

 setStyle(styleObject, from, length)  this function will go over all the supported properties of the style object and set them to the target style.thus we will not need to get the fontSize, fontColor, font, etc... from the source style and apply them with setFontSize, setFillColor, setFont, etc... to the target style. it will be avilable in a single expression function  

Why is the home screen flooded with very basic tutorials and nothing else? It would be much more useful if the home screen had my recent project. I would even go through tutorials if they had more value than basic things. After Effects can do much more than just the basics in those tutorials. If there were new workflows at Hollywood and Superbowl commercial levels by industry veterans. Adobe Industry news could also be linked through events for the AI technology previews. Why not keep me updated with full-length stage discussions and expo coverage?

Hi!If you animate the position of eG the GradientFX End or Start, you have to open the footage in the "Layer window" to see the animation path.Why can't we see it in the "Comp Window"?

When Colloborating on a project, it is important to know if the Rotobrush is FROZEN or not.   I request an indicator on the effect controls so it is not necessary to open the layer for this information.

Maybe I haven't tried the right combination of modifier keys but this feels like an opportunity to save a few clicks. I'd like to select a layer matte without the matte layer disappearing. I'm currently selecting the matte layer with the pick-whip or dropdown menu, then turning the matte layer visibility back on with the eye icon.

Keylight is quite old now and I think coding has progressed quite a lot to get a better kind of key. I lose many hours to adjust a key to perfection. I can't help but think in this era there could be a more elegant plugin.

Issue when working with Expression Controls / Layer Control, when copy pasting.When I paste the "Layer Control" Effect, the value gets resetted to "own layer" even if in the new composition there is a layer is named in the same way as the value was set originally.This adds a lot of work unnecesarly when copy pasting.

It'd be nice to be able to do a "Create Shapes from Shapes" kind of thing, to convert a Shape Layer's "modifiers" such as Repeater, Wiggle Paths, Round Corners etc. into actual vector paths. This could work exactly like the existing "Create Shapes from Text" function - it'd duplicate the layer (but the modifiers would have been converted to paths) and hide the original layer. Not sure (or entirely necessary) if it'd be possible to carry over any animated values such as a wiggling Wiggle Paths etc.

I need to make a lot of animations where audio is coming from either left or right in different versions.Was hoping to achieve this by adding a Stereo Mixer effect in an adjustment Layer on top off all, but unfortunately, the effect seems to have no effect when applied in an Adjustment Layer.

Dear Adobe,Could you enhance 3D Camera tracker of Adobe After Effects to support temporally stop function as a permanent functionality?It's necessary for using my Laptop computer to due process frequently. I cannot stay at home to process the tracker.If you could implement the functionality, It will bring efficiency.Best regards,

Why does exporting via AfterEffects' render queue use so much memory?When exporting via AME, memory is properly freed, but when using Ae's render queue, memory is used inexhaustibly, as it is during preview playback.This is undesirable behavior.My guess is that frames are stored in memory the same way they are during preview playback.However, the user opens the exported file, so there is no need to keep the frames in memory.Why is this designed this way?It seems to me that exporting would be faster if memory were properly freed up.Does Adobe have any plans to improve this?

I would like to be able to lock shape paths in the same way I can lock a mask path, so I can't accidentally select points and can focus on the shapes I need to modify.

Add a checkbox or something to allow users to opt-out of the installation of Cinema 4D R21 when installing After Effects.I already have a valid perpetual license for Cinema 4D R19 Studio. R21 is pointless as it only allows me to use a trial license or purchase a license. The application is useless for those who already own a commercial license.To make matters worse, I must uninstall it every time there is an update for After Effects. Quite frankly, I consider it bloatware. It useless and it wastes space on my hard drive. I understand that there are people who don’t already own C4D who would find this useful which I why I think the ability to opt-out would make both sides happy.

Currently when viewing any aspect ratio in after effect (or premiere) that isn't 16x9, it will stretch or squish the image when outputting with a blackmagic monitor. This makes editing social media formats or anything that isn't 16x9 extremely difficult to view on a reference monitor.All other software i use the blackmagic monitor with is able to do it. Flame, Nuke, Resolve. This is very much needed to have color acturate monitoring while editing all the various formats and sizes we create these days.