Feature Requests

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

Let us change the names of layers and sub-layers in the Properties channel by pressing Enter key. For instance, when working with shape layers with a lot of sub-layers inside, it feels weird that you can't rename them there and have to go to the Timeline to do so.

Please add a new tool in AE that could deform the layer mesh by the vertices I set. Same as in Spine or Moho. Puppit tool doesn't quite do what I need it to do. It places polygons at its own discretion and you can't make sure that there is only one polygon between each point (as it is implemented in Spine). 

For working with solo layers, I often need a second level of soloing.In compositions with over 100 layers, after soloing 20+ layers, I often want to solo a few of them without affecting the current solo list.Pre-composing usually impacts absolute parameters, and I don't want to tweak them using JS control layers.A double-solo or multi-level solo system, where the user can choose the number of solo levels, would be a handy feature to work with. 

I'd like to be able to export After Effects composition markers to a .csv as I can do in both Premiere Pro and Audition (and be able to import .csv markers from these programs, as well). Additionally: Something I've found is that Premiere Pro and Audition export their markers in different ways in their respective .csv files. It would be nice to standardize the .csv to streamline export/import into other Adobe programs. I'll post a separate feature request for this.

Could the devs please add in a bounding box (with central and corner points) that appears around all selected objects in the Composition window? It would be really useful for the alignment of multiple objects, and could also be used for the transforming of multiple objects without having to attach objects to a null. Also if it would be possible to use the alignment tools with these it could be really handy, for example an option to 'Align section to centre/right/left/top/down'.

One idea that has yet to be explored: have more than one trim path on the same shape/layer - like how the animation in the video at the 0:11 mark: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h89RKznjEgo Let me know what you think   

Howdy👋Currently there is some basic level of support for photoshop artboards in afx via a .psd file. However, AFX will import the psd and create a series of preComps, and a master 'overview' comp, as you would see all of your artboards within photoshop.However, it fails to set the preComp sizes to the size of each artboard, and instead sets all of the preComps resolution, to what looks like the bounding box of all of the artboards as they are laid out within the container comp.  This then obviously requires a bunch of work, for what should work out of the box, bearing in mind that artboards were introduced in 2015....Additionally, Illustrator now has artboards too.  However, there is no support whatsoever in afx for this.As a part of this refresh, it would also be nice to be able to do the reverse.  I.E. have a project in AFX that has a container comp with nested preComps, with the ability to 'save frame as photoshop layers', and additionally (if the project is v

More and more I'm finding myself working on templates from other design groups that make use of Essential Properties. Unfortunately a lot of these templates use the EP's in ways that run counter to good versioning practices (please stop building workflows that use the Essential Graphics panel in AE for versioning, people!). In trying to restructure these projects for a better workflow, I need to trace just where properties are used as Essential Properties. Unfortunately the only way I can see to do this is to go through comps one-by-one in the EG panel and then use the "Reveal in timeline" feature. It would be great if I could right-click on a property and see a list of comps that have that property as an essential property. It might also be useful to have a way to see a table of all the EP's in the project, including their source layers and containing comps, along with the comps the EP's are attached to. If these Essential Property links were exposed in the scripting API I'd glad

Its possible this already exists and i'm just unware of it but sometimes you end up with a comp with many layers that no longer contribute to the final image, tests along the way etc - but sometimes hidden layers are used as masks etc, so it would be great if we have an option to "remove unused layers" similar to the remove unused footage option, to clean up the timeline

Hello,question about the use of several GPU in my system.Got 4 Nvidia A5000 and was wondering if one day it could be possible like switching gears to choose witch of them I want to use ?.  Right one it's by defaut the  number  0  of the system always being used.this question could also apply to Photoshop and premiere and ... well all the others ;)))like in blender the ability to pick and choose the GPU ?.good luck!and thanks in advance ;))yann    

Currently the Select All commmand (Ctrl+A on Win) appears to always be sent to the timeline. I'd like to request that if the Layer Contents section of the Properties panel has focus, then the Select All command would target that section specifically, allowing us to quickly select all the shape layer contents for the selected layers. This would be a QoL upgrade when working with multiple shapes, or layers containing multiple shapes, speeding up workflow. The existing workflow is to select a shape or group, drag the scrollbar, then shift+click to select the last layer - not difficult, but every bit of workflow optimisation is appreciated! An example use case is wanting update the stroke cap for a whole bunch of layers at once for consistency. As a related request, adding marquee selection to the Layer Contents for making multiple selections would also be appreciated, as I think that there is currently no drag interaction in that panel. Cheers!

Very often, when I add a Layer Style to a shape layer, I'll have to go into Advanced Blending to reduce the Fill Opacity.I think, by default, the Fill Opacity should be 0%. Even better, have a setting where the user can choose this behaviour.

encounter discomfort when coloring keyframes on multiple properties.•As a suggestion, maybe if you select, for example, a property like Position, then if you color a keyframe, the following ones you add would automatically be colored in the same color?•Currently, the problem is that every time you add a new keyframe, it has to be colored separately, and this is a bit confusing. If the chosen color for that specific property could be maintained, it would be ideal.

On layers we have the ability to add a layer mask in compositing options to limit the effect to within a mask.  It would be amazing if we also had the ability to also pick whip a track matte layer on a per effect basis. Also addendum: if we could see/select the compositing options/layer masks within the effects window instead of having to open up compositing options on the timeline it would be more efficient. Thanks!Ruairi 

Working on a project and running out of cache? Spent the last few days working on your current project and buidling it's cahced data?Deadlines looming?I think it would be handy to have a seperate option to purge the cache for previous projects only, retaining cached data for the current open project to save having to wait additional time to re-render what's already been rendered. 

GPU should be used more especially when using shape in animations.GPU utilization too low while working.I want you to use about 80% of the whole.GPUの使用率が低すぎるので70~80%ぐらいは常に使う様に処理を改善して欲しい。現状ではかなり使用率が低すぎる。

I'd like to know whether a character is or isn't selected via scripting. This way you can run a script on that portion of text only, instead of the whole text.  Currently, you have to use the Command ID 3018 to apply an animator with a range selector, then read its start and end indexes. And this has to be done before starting any UndoGroup or the text would be deselected.Instead of using the Command ID, I tried this (again before the UndoGroup)var animator = layer.Text.Animators.addProperty("ADBE Text Animator"); animator.property("ADBE Text Selectors").addProperty("ADBE Text Selector");but the second line deselects the text again. So, it's not even an option.Having to use the Command ID and having to use it before the UndoGroup is a bit of a pain in the ass (not to mention that you also have to delete the animator).It would be nice to at least being able to use the above code inside the UndoGroup.Ideally it would be nice to have a CharacterRange object attribute to che

For some reason the 'Source Text' in After Effects is so much more than source text. It contains all kinds of parameters such as Paragraph Alignment (which is not source text imho). Anyway, when generating Soure Text with an expression, the Paragraph Alignment is fixed to Align Left, and can not be switched as long as the Expression is active. Please repair that, or make that setting accessible through Expressions.

I'd love to see a "Text control" option for expression effects, where it would add a blank text box in the effects panel that a user could enter text in to be used in expressions, along with properties for text layers for things like font, alignment, leading, etc. that could be controlled via scripting.

It'd be nice - but probably not easy - to be able to get the destination Premiere Pro's sequence dimensions (and maybe other things such as frame rate maybe?) into an AE expression. This would allow us, for example, to make a one-size-fits-all mogrt that can be dropped into a PPro timeline and would adapt automagically to the sequence's size - with no input such as scaling needed in PPro. I'm sure I'm not alone in having to export many different formats. I currently often create mogrts with a Format menu control, where the user can select from preset aspect ratios, and some expressions in the mogrt then take care of the positioning and scaling of layers and stuff. But it'd be lovely if this could be auto-detected somehow...perhaps in the same way I can use thisComp.width, maybe a thisSequence.width would get the target sequence's information. Obviously AE has no way of knowing the target sequence's dimensions when I'm setting up the mogrt, so maybe it could default to the current

Hello, Absolutely love new track matte feautres. However, the pickwhip is identical to the parenting pickwhip, and the two can easily be mistaken for one another. If there was a way to differentiate the two through use of color or value, that would be excellent. Thank you for you time!

Generative Fill is SO much better. Bring that technology from Photoshop into After Effects to replace Content-Aware Fill. It will make creating clean plates waaaaay faster and much better quality.

This has bothered me for ages and thought it's time to file this cos it's leading to very unproductive sessions.The Expression Error is of course great. However, it works on a Project-wide basis and this is also great - but not all the time. There are quite a few times when I only want to see/knowOf Expression Errors related to the Active Comp. This will make trouble-shooting a lot easier., more focused  What also needs to happen is for a button/something to be available in the Comp Panel to allow the user to switch between viewing Project-Wide Errors and Active Comp Errors.  Sometimes, errors are part of a setup as it is common for Expressions to reference Layer Names and Effects and these may not yet exist/beRenamed or perhaps they may not be required for the current use-case.