Feature Requests

The erratic zooming with the Apple Magic Mouse is really frustrating. I know this issue has more to do with the Apple mouse than it does Adobe but if there was an option to lock the screen size it might fix the issue. This is a problem in other Adobe products as well, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and so forth.

Radial minimax would be great. Like radial blur but you could take advantage of the hightlights in your footage, achieving another type of look.You could put a regular radial blur between 2 exposures with 0.1 and 10 gamma but it doesn't really work sometimes.I think this could be a nice effect to add.

Dear adobe employees, please i beg you, add the effect "add grain" to work on a 32 bits per channel workflow please, the noise effect (who is the only "grain" who work on 32 bits per channel) is absolute useless, it nearly no have any options to modify the noise, so i beg you adobe, add "add grain" to 32 bits per channel, thanks

Text style expressions are fantastic! But chaining many methods together is verbose. Idea:Similar to getStyleAt(), I would like a setStyleAt() method.  I want to create a style that contains a bunch of methods, and apply that style to a range. This method should apply a predefined Text Style object to a specified range and optional time.Parameters: Text Style object, index, time text.sourceText.setStyleAt(style, 0, 0)  How will the idea help your workflow? I find myself chaining many style methods together and needing to individually apply all methods to the same ranges. This creates many lines of code for 1 "look". Example: text.sourceText.style .setFillColor(effect("Color Control")("Color"), startIndex, numChars) .setFont("Impact", startIndex, numChars) .setTracking(5, startIndex, numChars) .setAllCaps(true, startIndex, numChars)  Benefits of Feature:If setStyleAt() method takes in a style object as a param, we can

Currently, when scaling a layer in After Effects, the mask scales along with it. This behavior is often inconvenient, especially when users want to resize only the layer content while keeping the mask's shape and position intact.It would be extremely helpful to have an option in the Transform properties that allows users to choose what to scale:Scale Content Only (scales the image/video but keeps the mask fixed)Scale Mask Only (scales the mask but keeps the content size unchanged)Scale Both (default behavior)This small addition would greatly improve workflow efficiency, reducing the need for unnecessary pre-compositions or track matte setups.Would love to see this feature in future updates!

I would like functionality similar to "Add Property to Essential Graphics" but with the effect controls panel and expression controllers. I often create custom controllers for specific properties using expression controllers. The ability to quickly right-click a property and "Add Property to Effect Controls" would significantly speed up this process. I envision the command would carry out the following Add the corresponding expression controller(s) to the layer Label the controller(s) based on the Effect Name and Property Name (e.g. "Fractal Noise 1 - Evolution")Link the selected properties to the newly created expression controllers via expressions. A bonus would be clicking and dragging any of these properties directly to the effect controls panel. This would allow users to add these property controls to other layers, such as a null object controller.  If an expression already exists on the property, the new expression would replace it.

1. When sizing the shape in Shape Properties it should respect the anchor point position. Sizing from the centre makes no sense. I should be able to scale the shape like it is in Illustrator or Photoshop. They respect the position of anchor point. Please fix this.2. Enabling "Bezier Path" in the toolbar is not always a good option as sometimes I want to keep the shape parametric. The option to convert it afterwards should be extremely easy but now it has too many steps to complete.

Disclaimer I am VERY new to After Effects, but one thing I struggle with in both AE and PR is using nests and pre-comps without a way to see/compare it easily to the main sequence or composition. Why isn't there an option to view your main content at a lower opacity while you're working in a nest/pre-comp, like an "onion skin" effect? When I am rotoscoping in AE there are different view options to see it with the pink outline over your foreground or with the background highlighted in red. I think something similar could be helpful when working in a nest/pre-comp so I can better align things on the screen by seeing my main content and adjusting accordingly. If something like this exists please let me know!

When leaving AE idle; going to another App or for a break, the AutoSave timer continues. Then, you get back to AE, you have to wait for an Auto-Save to happen. This is irritating, especially on large projects. Perhaps a quick fix might include - Perform AutoSave Even When Idle option in PrefsStop hogging AE when I return from my break!

So, deploying character ranges for the new text styling feature is a PITA. So, I'm thinking we have the wrong tool(s) for character ranges. So, howzabout we have a new type of slider that has TWO controls instead of the regular single control. The Left Control defines the start range and the Right Control, the length of the range. And via scripting/Expression control, we simply add arguments to get at each of these controls.And we'll call this 2-Control Slider, S2lider.  😄 My thoughts are with S2lider, it'll be much easier for average and even experienced users to start enjoying using the very cool text styling feature and hopeful/wishful that it'll be more performant than the verbose lines of code that's currently required to achieve identical results. So, we'll have a specific S2lider for Characters, another for Words and another for Lines and one more for Paragraph. and it's essentually the same slider but with functionality Based On a DropMenu to select

I write a lot of expressions in a text editor. It would be great if you could right click a parameter and copy the path for use in an expression. For example instead of having to pick whip or brute force figure out something like "thisComp.layer("Animation Controller").effect("Rotation Random Max")("Slider").value",  it would be very useful and efficient to just right click the parameter and copy this path. As it stands I Rube Goldberg it all by creating a dummy expression controller and pickwhiping parameters to it to be able to copy paste the path information.

I was looking for the possibility of having 'favorites' among the effects, so I can find them quickly. Is there a way?The only one that comes to mind is to create a folder and copy the effects there, then update the list.It would be more useful to be able to put a star and filter them quickly.

A Trim Paths mode that only affects Stroke while leaving Fill untouched will be a good addition.I'm looking at the Trim Paths, Trim Multiple Shapes Drop Menu as a guide for the UI-UX. So, right at the top of its UI, above Start, we have a Drop Menu, Trim Path Affects ...with the following Drop Menu Items - Stroke OnlyFill OnlyStroke and Filland Stroke Only wil be the default. 

Who among us has not pulled their hairs out trying to determine why a shot is not playing back at regular speed, only to realize that the layer has been time-stretched?  That's because you only see the time stretch properties within the Time Stretch dialogue box. I would like a layer somehow labeled when it has been Time Stretched anything beyond 100%. Could be as simple as a marker (screenshot attached), or something akin to Premiere's "FX" badge that gets applied to any clip with an effect applied. Thank you!

This has been asked in the past four years... I need to update the comp layouts for the way I work. Many AE users often has a mess in their work when I have in front of me cleaning up and updating files. So would be great to be able to update one comp timeline layout, and then have a button to click that sends that layout to all comps in the file. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Moderator: Thread title updated for clarify.

It blows my mind how AE can be such a mature and widely used product and STILL somehow doesn't support thumbnails in the Project panel?! - like not even the option to enable them. What in the world are the design team thinking? Every app including Adobe (Premiere, Photoshop, etc) have all had thumbnails since the dawn of time. But in AE, I have to scroll through a list of potentially hundreds of images, individually clicking on each of them one by one and previewing them to see what they are. So incredible that in 2024 this is still lacking.

Having removed the ability to create a color palette inside the software is A HUGE mis-step for the software, it borederline feels like a bad joke. Saving color and palettes is such a basic functionality of any creative software... but we are now forced to go outside of the software to create a palette and then import it? PLEASE, re-introduce a functional color swatch tool INSIDE after effects that does not require us to go elsewhere to create it and then import it. 

Can you please support color management when enebleing Mercury Transmit.I will not get the second display to convert to the Display color space.

Hi,I recently switched to AE 2025, and unfortunately, I've noticed that the UI font has changed to a bolder and blurrier version. After working with the new AE for a whole day, it feels as though I'm seeing everything with 0.75 diopters, and it's straining my eyes significantly. Is there any way to revert to the previous crisp font for the UI? Thank you,Andreas

Hi there! Is there any way of executing a context menu command?I'm trying this, which successfully returns the id 3064, but the action does not work on the selected layer. id = app.findMenuCommandId('Convert to Paragraph Text') app.executeCommand(id) Any idea on how can I make this work? Thanks!!

I'm currently working on a project that needs a bunch of assets in different pre-comps with the same resolution to be resized and repositioned and the fast way has been to use rulers, it would be nice if we could toggle it so rulers/guide lines stay on every comp till disabled.

How about a simple, non-cumbersome, and realistic way to import .ai and .psd layers onto your After Effects timeline. I personaly feel like the whole "Import as Footage/Retain Layer Sizes etc." system is convoluted, old, and never ends up behaving as planned. How about one button that allows you to pull in whatever you currenty have open in illustrator? All the layers based on the grouping you have them in in Illustrator and Photoshop. There's already several plugins that do this but they break when the progam is updated but the cool thing is, Adobe owns all three of these programs so it'd bee really easy to get this off the ground. 

Hi there! Question / Feature request:Is there any way we can access default camera settings from ExtendScript?We do quite a lot of scripting with cameras and exporting composition settings, but when someone changes the dafault camera settings, and there is no explicit camera, we're pretty must lost.  Thanks! 

Would be an amazing timesaver if we could have Layer Styles in the properties panel.Given a solid needs to be reloaded to change it's colour, I often drop a layer style on to quickly test colours etc.If i use a shape, sure it's a quick click to change a colour, but outside of using shapes or live text, the properties panel is a bit on the lean and useless side of practical... 

Quality of life request. The Graph Editor resizes function curves if I press the back tick (tilde) key and ENLARGE the viewing area.  Problem is, it DOESN’T restore the function curve to fit back down within the window when I press back tick again and make the Graph Editor smaller. The timeline and curve just get cropped. Please make it so it resizes the timeline and function curve when the window is made smaller again.