Feature Requests

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.

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?

Please add an option to: Precompose selected layers individually.Scenario: I have 100 layers and I need all of them to be in their own separate precompositions.Solution: alt+shift+c - precompose selected layers individually

You really should be able to copy multiple markers from a layer and paste them onto a comp in AE

AE 24.0 scripting updates for TextDocument are much appreciated! I'd like to request adding the items below: TextDocument.strokeOverFill was added. But this gives access to 2 out of 4 options in the Character Panel. Please add the scripting ability to read/write "All Fills over All Strokes" and "All Strokes over All Fills".  Please add read/write access for TextDocument.autoLeadingPlease add write access for TextDocument.horizontalScale and TextDocument.verticalScale

Please add groups in after effects which works like groups in photoshop. we should be able to group layers in the same comp and can view those layers by a dropdown just like photoshop. Precomp will also be avilable but the group should be also an option. Pros:1. We can apply an effect to multiple layer in a group without precomping it.2. we can use trackmatte with the group3. Less need of a null layer to animate multiple layers, we can just group them and animate them ( this will keep our project much cleaner.)

I've always wanted a feature to toggle on and off whether pre-comps in a master comp will "open in place" in that tab in the timeline. I find scrolling through all the comps at the top of the timeline is messy and frustrating when you are going in and out of pre-comps often. So my suggestion would be if a comp is opened from the project panel everything that's opened from inside there stays in that tab. That way if you do want that comp open you can do it from the project panel but it doesn't create unnecessary clutter. Premiere Bins have a similar functionality where they can be "opened in place"Then there can still be an option to make a new tab from that pre-comp if you right-click and makeone but the default setup is "opening in place"Maybe I'm the only one but that would make me happy

I'm currently working on a project in After Effects, and I'm trying acrobatically to decide which mode to use. Instead of just choosing a mode and going by, if we can adjust the effect of mode in After Effects, that would be a Gigantic improvement in my opinion. Instead of null object>mask out>mode>press T>adjust, we would just choose mode and down the effects panel we can just adjust it. From beginner to professional everybody can use this..