Feature Requests

I'm not asking to run MAC/PC After Effects as a native app on an iPad because that would be too much, nor am I asking to be able to use AE by screen-mirroring your Mac or PC to the iPad. Instead, I'm asking if it can be ported, reprogrammed, or repackaged as a condensed mobile app version that works on the iPad similarly to Illustrator, Adobe Fresco, and Photoshop. Given the ever-increasing need for moving images or motion pictures in today's environment, it becomes imperative to be impulsive in meeting these needs when you consider the accessibility and ease of doing so. WORK-ON-THE-GO is always a possibility, thus I'm employing Adobe to consider this as many pro apps are already porting to the iPad. 

Would it be possible to have a mini player o the user can scrub and play through animation without returning to the timeline? 

A shake ( camera wobble shake thing ) is currently carried by Third-Party Plugins, Such as like Boris FX Sapphire, they have an effect called ‘’S_Shake’’ and Videocopilot got one called ‘’ Twitch ‘’ BUT. The only built in way to really make a shake is Wiggle Expressions which are hiden for most of the After effects users or you could do hundreds of position keyframes which nobody really wants to do. So, that’s EXACTLY why a built-in camera shake effect would be PERFECT. 

For returning projects, it would be be nice when Freeze files could be stored outside the cache folders, in a user chosen project folder. This prevents from pre-rendering Freeze files when the caches are cleared (which is necessary once in a while).

When the save popup box appears in AE, and you click “don’t save” by accident, you lose your work. Having a failsafe would be much appreciated! 

For many years I was able to copy the name of a missing file and paste it into the search window when attempting to relink a missing file. It seems that Adobe has removed that feature. I don’t remember what version of After Effects this first happened, but I can no longer do that. Copying the name of a missing video or image no longer works. That standard feature helped tremendously when searching for missing files or trying to relink them. My request is that you restore that very simple feature.

We want to hear your ideas about how we can improve After Effects. Your opinion is very important to us and the ideas provided here regularly appear in future versions. When posting an idea, here are a couple of things to keep in mind:   How will the idea help your workflow?  You're the expert on your workflow, so tell us how your idea would improve your workflow. What problem are you having today that the idea could solve? That helps us understand your idea better. It also makes it easier for us to follow up with you to get more info on your idea.    One idea per thread If you've got two (or more!) ideas, make each of them a separate thread. Doing this will allow others to vote on a single, specific idea and not confuse up-votes amongst a list of feature requests.   Enlist support! If you feel strongly about a feature, and you know other people do too, get them to vote on it.   

The Copy Frame to Clipboard button is a really good addition, and being able to paste to disk is a great improvement.I’d like to suggest that it could be improved further by adding modifiers to the button, adding extra functionality.For example, Alt+Shift+Click could open a file browser, allowing the user to choose the save location and amend the filename if needed.Alt+Click could directly save the current frame to the last used location. If no previous location was found it would bring up the file browser to set a location as above. It would be useful if the last used file path was shown in a tooltip on hover, as well as the modifiers and their uses.An unmodified click would continue to work as-is.The benefit of this would be reducing friction and repetitive tasks when exporting frames for use in decks/presentations etc, freeing up artist time and helping to keep the flow. Adding these features as modifiers to an existing button mean it would not add to the amount of UI buttons, and b

Please, After Effects development team, bring back the ability to start tracking multiple masks at once.Doing them one by one was a bit tedious.For example:https://www.instagram.com/p/Dafoc_4ucQ2/

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.

Please add safezone options for current social media platforms to After Effects and Premiere!99% of the videos I create professinally are for social media campaigns, yet there are only guides in AE for broadcast safezones.

In a lot of situations, I find myself applying the same effects over and over. It would come in handy when these are stacked in an auto populated easy access menu with Keyboard shortcuts.

The pane buttons on the bottom left corner of the Timeline Panel are almost too small.The first two have keyboard shortcuts attached to them - factory settings.First:A shortcut for the In/Out/Duration/Stretch panes is sorely missing, and I cannot find an option to add it via the shortcut assignment window.Please assign a shortcut for toggling it on/of, or allow such manual assignment.Second:I realize that the ToolTips of the panes that DO have shortcuts - do not show the shortcuts in their ToolTips. I suspect many users may have an epiphany realizing this.Please unify this behavior!Thanks a lot,gratefully yours! 

After Effects requires more basic audio filters, effects, and restoration features than Premiere Pro. Sometimes, to correct noise or other issues in a video's audio, we either need to import the video into Premiere Pro or export it as audio in Audition and then export the audio separately. In After Effects, the only solution available is the High-Low Pass filter, and it's not sufficient on its own. Searching for solutions in different programs for simple, in-program fixes complicates the process.Premiere Pro’s Audio Effects PanelAfter Effect’s Audio Effects panel 

After Effects needs a language settings feature that will make it easier to type text in other languages. For example, if the entire title needs to be in uppercase and a word in the title contains the letter "i," it needs to appear as a capital "İ" in the language you're writing in. If you've already written the title and use the All Caps feature, and the "i" in the text is lowercase, it will appear in English format as a capital "I." There are temporary solutions, of course. For example, not using the All Caps feature and typing manually, or manually correcting any problematic characters after applying All Caps. However, programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign offer a very simple solution: a language selection option in the text options. This way, if someone writes in Turkish, for example, it will appear according to Turkish spelling rules. (After Effects also supports significantly fewer languages ​​compared to the other three programs, which is another necessity). The lac

With the announcement of RTX Spark hardware, it would be helpful to get confirmation on whether Adobe After Effects will support it.RTX Spark appears to be some of the most powerful consumer-focused hardware currently available, and support for After Effects could be a major time-saver for rendering, previews, and wider motion graphics/VFX pipelines.NVIDIA has stated:“NVIDIA is partnering with Adobe to rearchitect Adobe Premiere and Photoshop for RTX Spark.”NVIDIA has also said:“Adobe will further extend Premiere and Photoshop to allow users to create, edit and design with Windows agents, providing creators with a collaborative teammate to accelerate their workflows. Updates to Adobe’s creative apps like Premiere, Photoshop and Substance are expected to start rolling out alongside RTX Spark availability.”Given that After Effects is such a key part of many Adobe video and motion graphics workflows, it would be useful to know:Whether After Effects will be supported on RTX Spark hardware.

when I hit L L for the hotkey to reveal the audio wave form, I would like to also have Audio Levels visible too.   I've never wanted to see the audio level stopwatch without seeing the wave form a the same time.  right now 1 L will open the stop watch,  and 2 will hide stop watch and reveal waveform.  

Dear Adobe After Effects Team,First, I would like to thank you for the incredible progress made in the native 3D workflow inside After Effects. The addition of GLB, glTF, FBX, and OBJ support has opened many new possibilities for motion designers and artists who rely on After Effects as their primary creative environment.I would like to submit a feature request that I believe would have a significant impact on the future of After Effects: native support for Alembic (.ABC) files.Alembic has become an industry-standard format for exchanging complex animated geometry between 3D applications. It is widely used for: Ocean and water simulations Cloth simulations Hair and fur animation Destruction and VFX caches Geometry Nodes workflows Vertex and point-level animation High-end character deformation caches Currently, many artists can import static or skeletal animated models into After Effects, but simulations and vertex-based animations are often lost because they rely on geometr

Please add a dedicated animation Dope Sheet to Adobe After Effects. This would not replace the existing Timeline or Graph Editor (though it could be combined with the graph editor). Instead, it would provide a higher-level animation timing view designed specifically for blocking, retiming, spacing decisions, pose timing, and coordinating animation across many layers and properties. A true dope sheet would make After Effects significantly more efficient for character animation, motion design, explainer animation, rigged 2D animation, UI animation, kinetic typography, and hybrid 2D/3D production.The Current ProblemThe current After Effects Timeline is very powerful, but it becomes difficult to manage when a composition contains many animated layers, rigged character controls, shape layers, text animators, effects, masks, and nested precomps. Animators often need to understand the timing structure of an animation before they need to fine-tune curves. In those moments, the Graph Editor is

Simple: I want to be able to adjust the kerning alt + arrow nude kerning level. Currently defaults to +/-20 with no way to change and extendscript is not cursor aware so no way to do it with a script either. Always have to access it via properties / char panel which is not ideal.  Why:Figma type engine is a bit different than adobe so microkerning is something I do a lot of right now.  

IDEA:The request is an extension of the current solo and Shy functions - currently we can solo layers in the viewport and make them Shy in the timeline as separate actions. I’d love to see an option to ‘Super-solo’ layers, which would allow the user to show only the layers they’ve got selected in both the timeline and the viewport in a single action.This would be super-useful when working on heavy / busy comps - being able to quickly reduce down to just the layers I need to see at that time would reduce cognitive load by a lot. It would also potentially help with performance, by reducing the amount of layers etc. that need to be drawn onscreen.PROPOSED USAGE:The User selects one or more layers, then runs the 'Super-solo' command. The result is only the selected layers are visible in the viewport and the timeline. All other layers are hidden in the viewport and the timeline.Some kind of indicator would be needed to show the user that Super-solo was active, in case a project was saved wi

It would be fantastic if Adobe could open up the color space setting to be modifiable via the C++ SDK. Obviously these are quite new features, but they are not currently exposed to the SDK. I’m working on a plugin to take out the hard part of handling colorspace for artists so they can worry about the work and not the science.NamelyProject - color ENGINEProject - OCIO configProject - working spaceProject - display spaceFootage items in project panel - colourspaceThank you 🙏🏼

I'd love to be able to paste raster graphics directly into AE.  It should just make a new footage element and save it to disk. There are so many cases where you need to bring in a ref image, a screenshot, something from an email, a style guide, etc.  Having to launch photoshop, create a new file, paste it in, go through the PITA photoshop save dialogs, say you want to save it locally and not on adobe cloud, navigate to the file, import it, then add it to your comp is a lot of steps/insanity that should be automated.

When adding properties to essential graphics, can it auto switch to the comp you are adding it from,  I cant think of any reason to not do that? you cant even add them to the wrong comp panel.  

You may have noticed that Figma released Figma Motion and is gunning for animation software. Can we get Figma’s Auto-Layout in After Effects? How will the idea help your workflow? It is hard to imagine what design would not benefit from an auto-layout system. Anything with text, shapes, and images smaller than the full video frame would benefit. The simple example of “text in a box” is the most basic, but this same idea is required for animating UX/UI animation, product videos, and templates.Current workflows to mimic responsive design are to use complex expressions, 3rd party scripts, or manually create many variations.Expressions are a bad workflow for layout because they require a coding skills which most motion designers don’t have; and for those with the skills, it is still tedious to set up and “rig”. Once rigged, AE’s limited performance is further bogged down by running those heavy expressions on every single frame.Scripts and plugins are a bad workflow for layout because they