Feature Requests

As a video editor, I always strive to optimize my workflow and improve my efficiency. I find the user interface and organization of Adobe Premiere Pro to be incredibly user-friendly and intuitive. Therefore, I would love for Adobe After Effects to have a similar workflow and organization as well as UI. This would not only make it easier for me to navigate and use the software but also help me to stop seamlessly switch between the two apps while working on my video projects. I find After Effects a great app for motion graphics, and such. Yet, it fails to handle big files unlike its sibling Premiere Pro.

Please add a loop option in the Time section so we can easily loop precomps:   

Let's start off by acknowledging one of the efficient features in After Effects that allows us to remove keyframes from any property simply by clicking the time-vary stopwatch. It's like an undo button for commitment.  Recently, I've been baking in some expressions for a comp. To speed up my workflow, I've run some expressions that tailor each comp according to a CSV file, essentially creating a dynamic racing scoreboard. However, this process has a minor downside - it's like a really enthusiastic party planner, it puts a keyframe on every single frame. So, I manually hit the time-vary stopwatch to blast away the keyframes - a quick fix but not ideal considering the multitude of layers and properties in play.My initial thought was to script a solution to obliterate these unwanted keyframes. While it works as intended, it's a bit like watching a snail complete a marathon. It iterates through every single keyframe on my selected properties, which is just painfully slow. I've fo

I've recently gotten into scripting and realised that creating masses upon masses of null objects just fills up the solids folder. The alternative is to use shape layers, but these don't behave the way I'd like. For example, when you hide UI controls, null objects are also hidden. Even if you make a shape layer a guide layer After Effects still renders it (unless it's nested in another comp). Void from Battle Axe is evidence of nulls/solids being a general annoyance of a number of After Effects users. (Solids do come in handy though, let's keep those)My idea is kind of an overhaul of how Null objects are created. They wouldn't have a source solid layer, instead would just exist similar to shape layers. They would behave as they currently do:Able to be hidden when UI is turned offRetain the smalled dotted line texture that maintains scale regardless of zoom levelWith some additions:Size parameter: also with the addition of more 3D features in After Effects, having a 3rd dimens

Idea:  When you select the rotation tool (W) you get a "Set: Rotation/Orientation" dropdown. This is the only way to change this setting that I'm aware of. An important setting that remains hidden most of the time.   When you have the select tool selected (v), and you select the "rotation" gizmo, no such dropdwon appears. It took me about 10 minutes to figure out where the rotation dropdown box was hiding becasue I selected the wrong rotation item in the toolbar. Proposal: Rotation setting dropdown should appear in both instances. If there are other ways to change this setting, please make it visible more often!

When you enable 3D for a layer in After Effects, if that layer has nodes(points), such as a regular square created with the rectangle tool, each individual point should be able to be pushed/pulled on the X,Y, or Z axis individually instead of the whole object. This would provide more value to not only using the tools already in the program, but also create another technique to showcasing 2D elements within a 3D space.

Am I the only one who'd like a search feature in the Render Queue tab?I often have projects with a long list of render jobs.When doing a TV series episode I try having all shots inside a single AE project - makes iterating a 1000 times faster 😉I often find myself struggling to find a render job already created for a given shot - they aren't always in their numerical order - rather the order the shots were made.We can't sort the Render Queue by the list collumns (maybe another feature request?), at the very least it would be nice to have a similar search feature that we have in the timeline panel where we can search/filter layers by name.

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature request. But Ive found that the Opacity setting for Strokes in Shape Objects is missing from the new Properties panel.   When I create a new shape and apply a stroke using the new Properties panel, the Opacity setting for the stroke for that shape is missing and is only accesible in the timeline panel drop-downs.   I think it would be good idea to add the Stroke Opacity setting underneath the Stroke Colour in the new Properties panel. Thanks!!

In After Effects 2023, choosing the new OCIO color management engine sets the project working space to linear ACEScg.  The gamma options are greyed out so there is no confusion and no manual setting for linear compositing. This is all great!But the user can still choose between 8 / 16 / 32 bpc.OCIO / ACES should be 32 bits only. You cannot do linear compositing in 8 bit, and AFAIK if you try to work in 16 bit then you'll get problems with overbrights and potentially very weird color artefacts.So - if you choose the new OCIO color engine, then the project should be locked to 32 bits, just like the gamma is locked to linear.

Using CSS, it is impossible to determine the viewport size when an extension panel becomes smaller than 132px. As previously mentioned here, this limitation takes away control from the developer, and can cause layout issues. It also encourages developers to create larger CEP panels instead of small compact ones, which affects the user experience. 

Hi everybody, I don't know if something like this currently exists, but having the ability to highlight expressions would be great for remembering where key lines of code were (like two months later) or if I have to hand off a template file to somebody who doesn't relaly use expressions and tell somebody else, "it's the lines of code highlighted in orange, change x variable".  Granted, one can always comment, and maybe there's a different approach that's it's equal but having something that would be really nice to have. As always, thanks for reading. 

Currently sourceRectAtTime ignores whitespace characters at the beginning and/or end of referenced text layers.egThe reported width of "Sample Text" and "   Sample Text   " are the same since it is only looking at rendered pixels.I am having to write a bunch of extra code to account for this and think it would be great if there were just another arguement within the sourceRectAtTime method you could flag that would consider the width of whitespace characters or not depending if set as true.

This has never really been an issue for me in the past, but at the moment I find myself working on movie projects at 24 fps and HDTV PAL projects at 25fps in parallel. I keep getting tripped up by sequences defaulting to the wrong frame rate on import (admittedly, when I forget to interpret the footage manually) It strikes me that this really should be a project setting, rather than an application preference. Or at least there could be a project setting that overrides the application preference.

I have looked into the possibility of batch processing to archive a large number of AEPs, but it doesn't seem to be possible. https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/collect-files-scriptable/m-p/11431767 Not being able to archive automatically causes a lot of inconvenience in the studio.How do we send them to the render farm in their complete form?How do we deliver 100+ AEPs to the client? Wouldn't it be useful if we could give aerender.exe a "-collectfiles" option and specify the destination directory as an argument?and could give app.executeCommand(); more option? I hope After effects will become a Studio Ready product.

Patching mogrt files together for graphical improvements on the way videos are presented  immagine if i could patch mogrt files togeterher easily define what one file does with words then apply the same context of visual information to another file Example https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRKSJMQH/ Make one text graphic merge with another and then add one more  I wanted laser text that was displayed in a winter snow fall style while filling the screen with a certain display sequence all the while being shown as though it was coming from outer space floating glitter   ai would solve this but if not now, when ? 

Please implement a way to generate SmartVectors just like in Nuke. As a VFX producer & artist working on TV and streaming with extremely fast deadlines, I could get so much done in terms of tracking and stabilization if we could generate SmartVectors/stmaps/UVmaps from footage. Nuke not only has this feature, but now has multiple ML implementations of it, which can give even more accurate results. You already have an optical flow algorithm, that means you're a bit of math away from SmartVectors. Please! For those of who haven't left for Nuke, we're being left behind, and it's only a matter of time until we're forced to switch.

I would like to see the ability to toggle absolute/relative position of the start/end points of a gradient. The current system has you pick an x/y position within the composition (absolute values). I would like the option within the effect itself to use these composition coordinates or lock them with the layer (relative positioning) so that - when moving the layer's position - it doesn't fly through the gradient. Yes, I know an easy expression can handle this. For example:x=transform.position[0]; y=transform.position[1]-100; [x,y]The point at which it becomes tricky is when layers are parented to each other. The child's layer position becomes relative to the parent layer's position, the expression would effectively revert the effect to an absolute position. Yes, you can add other expression controls to make the "offset" variable (instead of "100" in the above expression), but depending on how many layers you're working with, this becomes a large time suck.My thought is t

Colorama is so powerful; but the color picker suck.Just use the same picker as the rest of the Program, PLEASE.Why this color picker from the 80's, for a such a great effect?Also, we should be able to see live update in the composition panel

Olá, comunidade! Queria deixar uma ideia pra futuras atualizações: A opção de poder exportar uma única composição de um projeto para um projeto separado. Por exemplo: Tenho um projeto que tem 5 composições, dentre elas uma composição de um Logo Reveal animado dentro do projeto. Queria poder exportar somente esta composição para um projeto separado, para que eu não precise importar o projeto todo somente por conta da animação do logo. Isso às vezes pesa muito no projeto final, e a possibilidade de retirar somente uma composição como um novo projeto ia ser ótimo! Espero que implementem minha idéia, ficaria muito feliz e facilitaria muito não somente o meu trabalho, mas das outras pessoas também 🙂Obrigado!

After Effects should have a keyboard shortcut to toggle "Hide Shy Layers" in Timeline Panel.

I do mogrts for some clients, and is annoying that the program is forcing me to save everytime I do an export of a mogrt. I'm just wanting to see if the template that I just created works fine, and if it doesn't I'll have to make adjustments to it, like a regular video export on a composition. So I don't want to save as I'm not sure what the output is going to be like. The worst part is that it also clears for Undos, so your stuck. I have to manually undo the changes if the mogrt doesn't work well. If I remember them. 

For the Linear Wipe, add a checkbox to use the layer bounds in stead of the Comp size.That wil make the percentages more logical when applied on elements that don't fill the comple composition. √ Use layer bounds

We have a render script that our artists run to ensure compliance on deliverables with the studio that their project is for.  We currently use 40+ output modules to facilitate this because of a bug with setSettings(). The addition of native support for OCIO / ACES workflow in AE 2023 has been a long time coming and very much welcome!  Unfortunatly we are running into issues in being able to set the color settings of an output module via scripting. We can generate more templates to handle this, but it is not ideal to do that for each update to studio requirements.  As we then need to make sure all artists update their templates.  The ability to set color settings via .setSettings() would save a lot of time and headache, and allow artists to focus on the work and not have to rerender because they dont understand color science.Thank you!

I just came across a situation where I created a black marker (using a custom label color) which had a comment. However, the comment text in the timeline was black, so the comment was illegible. It would be helpful if the text color could switch to white if the label color is detected as being below a certain value.

The idea of convert path to points, is the same way you would convert to bezier path.So right click your path and convert to points. This will give you like the attached mockup photo, a controller for each point that makes it possible for you to animate indiviual points and handles in a path.I was helping with an animated stroke that follows some tracked footage of a windmill, where to stroke also follows the windmills wings rotating, and came up with the idea of this feature.