Feature Requests

This involves Bridge as well.Right now in Ae/Br there's a lot of weird outdated and impractical text animations presets. Just check out the folders like:Adobe After Effects 2024\Support Files\Presets\Text\Graphical\orAdobe After Effects 2024\Support Files\Presets\Text\Graphical\2023 is almost over. Ae 2024 is here already. And yet these presets look like it's still 1999 🙂Could we please get a new set of text animation presets with the next Ae major update? Just Animate IN and OUT presets will do.Surely more users would appreciate it than those 3d features. In the end what's the ratio of projects utilizing imported 3d objects to projects utilizing animated text?Thanks! 

When Importing a PP sequence into After Effects, currently all the media attached to the project has to import. This can take a lot of time and it can lead to media being imported twice if, for example, you want to import another sequence at another time. It would be smarter if you had the option to just import the nests/media present in the sequence you're importing. After Effects can do this afterwards by using the dependencies/ reduce project command.

I need a way to make comp markers from layer markers with their comments. I can make layer markers from nested comp markers with Update markers from Source, I can copy markers from one layer to another with the rd_CopyMarkers script, but i can not create markers or copy the comments from layer markers to comp markers in any automated way.  For a VERY long time I have been trying to figure out how, but to the best of my knowledge there is no way to do this except manually. I can't find a script or addon that does this and have been try to automate this process with my own scripts, but it does not work. i don't think there is even a scripting way to do this. no matter how i approach it, i can't figure it out.  can this please be implemented?

Hi,I Don't know what other user think... but for the first time, I finally understood how migrate plugins and script from an older to the newest version installed.Because I must say that when you launch for the first time the newest version of after-effects, the pop-uyp that is asking you what do you want to do with the plugins and script is not enough clear. One of the button is blue and very attractive for your eye. But this is not the good button to migrate your script/plugin folders. The grey (oldest version of AE) is the good one.Maybe adobe should consider this as it's not clear.(Hope I'm Clear enough) 😉 

When copying a set of layers containing a Lens Blur effect that points to a Blur Map layer, this relation breaks when the set is pasted in a new Comp. I would prefer to keep the relation intact.

I often have to keep words together in blocks of text, so frequently use Character Panel > No Break. It'd be handy if I could assign this to a keyboard shortcut so I could selected my words and just press the shortcut - currently that's not possible (it does not appear in the Keyboard Shortcuts panel). ...Or is this not possible because AE would see the shortcut-key-press as me entering text into my comp rather than a command?

When the matte is frozen, it would still be nice to be able invert it from within the effect settings.Right now, Invert is grayed out when frozen.

it would be great if there's a UI Toggle Button forsynchronize Time of All Related Itemsinstead of going to the preference menu and enabling/disabling this option  

Keyboard Shortcuts should not live in the Edit menu, since it does not affect the Comp or Selection. It belongs in Preferences, because Keyboard Shortcuts are settings.

When starting Mocha for Ae when the Comp viewer is not showing Full resolution, Ae comes up with a warning. How convenient would it be when the pop-up contains a button to switch resolution! Please add a third button to the warning: 'Switch to Full resolution'

Currently in order to set a specific value for a guide one needs to perform absolutly different actions in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. In Photoshop you need to click "View → Guides → New Guide…" and then enter a specific value for a guide : In Illustrator you need to create a guide, select it and adjust its position in the Properties panel under the Transform section: In Premiere Pro and After Effects, you need to right-click on a guide, then select "Edit Position…" in After Effects or "Edit Guide…" in Premiere Pro. After that, you can edit the value inside the window (even these windows look different in Premiere Pro and After Effects): Premiere Pro: After Effects: Due to the inconsistency among the apps within Adobe's Suite, it's challenging for new users to learn how to use it. The same result is achieved differently in each app for some reason. Please make it consistent to decrease the steep learning curve that is pres

It seems insane that EVERYTHING you want to do in After Effects relies on the order in the layer stack.  It makes sense sometimes, but things like Adjustment Layers where it affects EVERYTHING underneath it is so annoying.  You can't even exclude layers from being affected by the Adjustment Layer, which leads to needlessly complicated timelines - and the fact that there's no timeline folder ability (like they have in Illustrator, Photoshop and literally every other compositing software) just makes using AE a drag sometimes.  I know I'm wasting my time requesting a feature from Adobe seeing as they seem to despise AE users, but I thought I'd at least try.  I look forward to the software not changing for the next 15 years.

Why using Open Project menu command or using shortcut CTRL/CMD+O closes project? It should be closed when I choose to open another project from file browser.

In Premiere when you relink footage there's a progress bar, which is useful, because it can take a long time. In After Effects, there is no such feature. After Effects is clever, in that if you use 'replace footage' to relink an asset that is offline, then After Effects automatically looks for, and replaces other offline footage with the same relative path. But... there's no progress bar. If a project has a large number of assets offline, then relinking just one can make AE hang for a long time, with no indication of how long it will take to finish, and uncertainty whether the program's still running or has crashed, as it is unresponsive. I'm currently trying to link offline assets in a project with a thousand or so assets offline, and after half an hour of AE 'not responding', I still don't know if that's because it's crashed or because it's just taking a long time to relink. A progress bar when replacing offline footage would be very welcome.

Would be cool if Preview playback didn't render guide layers...

Hi there! The feature has been recently made available for expressions, but it is missing from ExtendScript.We do a lot of rich text, and we would love to be able to query and manipulate text via script. Thanks!

At present, to exit the expression editor using a keyboard, you need to press the "Numpad Enter" key or "fn + Enter" keyboard shortcut (on a Mac). The issue here is that not all keyboards are equipped with either the "Numpad Enter" or the "fn" key. Many keyboards lack both. Therefore, it would be practical to assign the "⌘+Enter" (or "control + enter") keyboard shortcut to exit the expression textbox. This adjustment would allow users to exit the expression textbox using any type of keyboard. 

Mogrts are great in many ways, but still limited in others. Providing overlays for an end user - for social safe zones, for example, or as additional instructions for proper template use or timing - can be very helpful, but requires an additional control they'd need to disable before exporting. Might it be possible to enable Guide Layers to pass through to Premiere, such that they'd be visible to the Premiere user, but would NOT appear in exports? 

due to ongoing client projects, i am required to keep using 2022. i am often sent other projects that have been created in 2023 (and now 2024) that i have to go around the houses to open, and then save backwards so i can work on them in 2022. it would be beneficial - and a big timesaver - if 2022 would just open these "created in a newer version" projects

After working in After Effects for a decade, I have two ideas that would streamline the animation process substantially, especially regarding the tedious process of making changes to timing. Please let me know if there are already features such as these - to my knowledge there are not. The first concept is keyframe groups or linked keyframes.Consider how changing the timing of a simple motion currently works.In this example, lets say we have multiple layers, each with keyframes on multiple attributes (position, scale, transparency, and an effect attribute like brightness). These keyframes line up with their start and end points across layers, but some attributes such as brightness have one additional keyframe in the middle. Lets call all of these keyframes a group. Now imagine that I want to extend the end point across to 5 seconds. A simple task in such a simple example, all I'd have to do is select all the end keyframes and drag them across to my playhead.Easy done. Al

After Effects feature request: Allow me to assign a “common media” folder on my computer that stores often-used assets for templated work. If media can’t be sourced when opening a project, look in that folder first. It’d save lots of labour. I work in a newsroom where we do many templated graphics every day. Each one uses the same 2gb movie file. The feature I requested above would allow us to just store a single version of that file on each machine and never worry about it again. 

Very simple to implement, though ideally as part of a wider update to Collect Files.Currently if you reduce project and collect files for queued comp only, and comps needed for expressions is not included.It would not be difficult to include an expressions check into the process and would prevent a lot of future problems. other things useful:Attempt fix/workaround to prevent over 256 character filenamesMany Many sub-folders and filenames causes issues on Windows. Option not to include sub-folders for PSD/AI layers.Option to match finder/explorer file structure vs project folder structureJust anything to stop every source PSD going into it's own folder just because the layers are in a folder! and get rid of the tiny subject character limit in this forum, it isn't a tweet

After so many years and versions, I think it's about time to add the basic functionality of having swatches in AFX just like in Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. Make it possible to upload swatches made in other Adobe applications to make it even more user-friendly! I'm tired of color-picking and copy-pasting!!! 

Hi there,  I'm wondering if the code will allow, it would be great to change the twirl down opreation to click [which opens the effect] to open and when you jump to another effect or property etc the open/active property closes on new selection across all panels. Many thanks, Rich

Would be great to twirl up/down all the Master Properties with a hot keyMaybe pp?