Feature Requests

It'd be handy to have the option to set the quality of a 3D comp for both the comp viewer and the final output; when working with heavy 3D comps, it'd be nice to see a rough view in the comp viewer, but to know that when I send it to render, AE will use a better quality output. I know "Draft 3D" exists, but this does not seem to make much difference to the redraw speed. On a similar note, I'd like to see "render only" layers (I've feature-requested this before, a long time ago) which work in the opposite way to "guide layers" - ie. they only show up when rendering, not previewing a comp. This would be handy for things like motion blur, colour grades, etc. which can slow down a redraw, so one turns them off...and has to remember (hopefully) to turn them back on again when rendering.

Mesh Warp should have a "define boundary" option (like in Nuke's Grid Warp) so that the entire screen space doesn't have to be manipulated which just a small area needs to be tweaked.

Wouldn’t it make sense to ask Adobe to integrate after effects into premiere, same as fusion is integrated in davinci resolve, since AF is also used for compositing. That’s much more reliable that the mostly broken dynamic link, & also less destructive since over in davinci land you don’t have to replace footage with fusion comp, so if you need to do any adjustments later your footage will be as intact. also the trips between the pages are instantaneous.

Request:An option in the Add Grain effect that would add the grain at the Composition level rather than having the grain move and distort with the layer it's applied to. The result would be grain that ignores the layer's tranforms but uses the layer's (transformed & effected) alpha channel as a matte, whether the layer is 2D or 3D. Current Workaround:  Create a new Adjustment Layer with Add Grain above the target layer Select the target layer as an alpha matte for the new Adjustment Layer Repeat for each layer that requires grain Add Grain is typically used to match the existing grain of the footage layer underneath the layer being composited. For me, the above would be the default option.

Hi, I am creating a mogrt template. I am adding more than 300 solo properties to the essential graphics panel. And I am placing them in folders to keep them in order. However, since there are so many solo properties, it takes too much time to move them to folders. It would be great if it was possible to multi-select solo properties in the essential graphics panel. Is it possible?

It's been a long time when vetical videos are made using after effects. All the trending Tik Tok video, Youtube shorts and Instagram reels are made in vertical format. Even after years after effects is not optimised for vetical videos. There's not even a option to change from horizontal to vertical screen resolution. I don't why is ignoring this major feature.  There's no workspace preset for vertical format video. I think it's time add these essential feature to the software. 

Using Extendscript I wish to be able to set the value of property("ADBE Vector Graphic - G-Fill").property("ADBE Vector Grad Colors") The propertyValueType is currently NO_VALUE. I can set all the other properties, but without setting the color it is of no use.  

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

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?

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.