Feature Requests

Time-Reverse Keyframes seems to ignore any keyframes selected between the firs and the last selected keyframe. Came across this, while I wanted to create an alternating color transition (see picture for the situation).I selected every other keyframe, but invoking Time-Reverse Keyframes just reversed the whole keyframe sequence, ignoring my carefully selected subset. Please make the function work for selections as well. 

A checkbox in the effect controls for the Noise effect called "Relative to comp size" that gives you consistent noise scaled to the comp rather than the layer size

For an effect that I am building, I need to happen a lot of things in a single layer. That is where the Effect/Channel/Calculations comes in handy. But unfortunately, the Blending Modes this effect offers are not the same as those for Layers. E.g.: Hard Mix is missing. And that's exactly the one I need for my project... Would it be possible to extend the effect with all Blending Modes?

Adding/moving the default output drop down into the render queue would really speed up a lot of batch production.If need thirty pro res with alpha I currently have to go to edt/templates/output module to set it, then again to put it back to the give-Dolby-cash-for-mp4 preset.I would LOVE to be able to set this in the render queue.But fix the application wide default render folder prefrence bug first!

After Effects finally needs a competitive 3D Realtime Engine (GPU) for 3D compositing and virtual workflows of the future. The Link to Cinema is too slow, complicated and unstable for simple 3D compositing tasks. So it needs something like "3D Elements" on steroids and native in AE.Dranging some 3D Assets into AE, add some effects, tweak and light them, is a must have in 2022. Compositing, Motion Graphics and VFX are not only 2D/2,5D! - they happen now also in 3D and Realtime! What this new real time 3D Engine needs: - 3D Geometry Support (import/export)- PBR Shaders- Link to Substance Painter/Designer- Primitives' and very basics modeling (box, spline) and deformer Tools - Raytrace Lighting, Reflections (GPU)- Support of 3D Volumes and Point Clouds (vdb.)- Camera Mapping Tools- Advanced Camera Tracker (more manuell control, constrains, import/export)- Smart 3D Particles with Physics (node editor)- VR HMD Support thxPS: I wirte this since years. please don't delete my requests again.

why does the opacity parameter of the fill effect affects the opacity of the entire layer? this does not make sense at all! please fix this. 

When would mogrts created in after effects be compatible with premiere Rush? this would allow people to easily create content on their smart phone gor social media! pls make this possible. 

Please, make menu bar darker like Illustrator or Photoshopit's anoying to see a white bar on the top of After Effects on Windows.Thank You.

Hello, We use AE constantly, like everyone here. One universal feature that is both quality of life, and a productivity enhancer, would be to implement a thumbnail view in the project panel. When animators create complex projects with many source files, being forced to scan through them one at a time as a text list item and seeing a slow-to-render small thumbnail of a single image is extremely inefficient for the user. I have here a screen grab from a piece of software that was last updated back in 2022 called aeviewer. This does achieve the general UI functionality we desire for AE, the only problem is, this does NOT allow this view for files that are INSIDE your AE project. This script is essentially a replacement for adobe bridge, or something of that nature. It allows you to scan your harddrive, and double click to import the file you find and want to use into your AE project. This is also a problematic workflow in that it creates a new aefinder folder, and deposits imports th

Instead of being used for zoom use the scroll feature for scrolling and have the screen zoom as a locked position that we can increase and decrease using option scroll or (Command) + (+ and -). Having my zoom increments change every time I touch my magic mouse is frustrating. 

Using the warp stabilizer in After Effects, it allows you to see the track points and delete specific ones. I think something that should have/could have easily already been done is have a human/person detection feature where you can choose to not allow the track points to adhere to people. I typically go through (almost) frame by frame and delete the track points on the person in my shot so the stabilization is only connected to the scene and it just takes forever.Or maybe even just simply a "do not track" area or mask where you can select an area in the frame where tracking points aren't "allowed"...

Was told to great this into an idea! Here it is! Speaking specifically for the motiongraphics usage of after effects. The problemI use external 3d programs with after effects, which means I need to bring a copy of my 3d camera into after effects and in all 3d programs you can use orthographic, perspective, and panoramic camera types (in blender at least). With after effects only supporting perspective style cameras, its currently impossible to add after effects elements to a isometric camera set up. The AskAdd, orthographic support to the native after effects camera. Which expands the options for integrating 3d/2d work flows! Especially with the expansion of 3d object support in after effects its self.  please and thank you!  

It would be extremely helpful to be able to define our own render tokens somehow. We often have very long and complex filenames that string together common elements like "Project Code," "Client Name," "Project Name," "Deliverable Name," "First/Last Initials," "Version Number", "Language"It would be helpful to be able to define these somewhere in the AE project, perhaps as metadata, and then allow them to be used as render tokens/properties that can be used in the existing File Name and Location Templates.Sure, we can manually enter this information ourselves when we go to render. We could also rename our comps this way (though comp readability would become terrible). But it becomes a chore when we have dozens or hundreds of files to render. It would help with quality-of-life and ease-of-use to be able to set up these tokens once per project and reuse them. Filenames and render folder locations would be much more consistent (even when sharing the project with multiple artists on differe

The Camera Tracker seems to guess the scale of a scene, resulting in enormous spaces without any relation to the shot footage. It would be nice to have an approximation of the real world scale.This can be done in Cinema 4d style, by defining a 'known length' between two tracked points.Please add something alike.

What is the chance of Adobe bringing back Adobe Color Themes to After Effects? It was SUCH a useful thing to have for mograph work. I know we can use the color.adobe.com website and libraries, but having it all in-app was so useful. There is an alternative plug in on AE scripts, https://aescripts.com/coco-color-coworker/, but it seems absolutely daft for Adobe to strip out a much-used feature for it to replaced by a paid plug-in. Please, can we have it back?

Would like to see an ability to open renderet file by pressing on it's name in the Render Queue tab. 

Like have the officially accepted resolution for each Social Media Ad. I saw that my wish was granted but it was almost the same as the existing HD formats 1080x1920 blah blah blahso there should be 1080x1080 square ads from Instagram and FBand the 1080x1350 reso for Facebook 4:5 reso.

This is odd. My go-to master codec DNxHR RGB 444 12-bit doesn't allow for 30 frames per seconds when exporting via AE queue. However, it still does other various other framerates, such as 60 fps. – Why is this?   It is weird because when rendering via AME 30 fps becomes again available in a MOV container, but not in the MXF container 🤔 🤔 Strange inconsistency. @8266197 could yo make this consistent please? 30 fps seems like a no brainer!

It's still impossible to work properly with BRAW Files in After Effects!We have no access to all the important RAW-Data like Color Sience, White Balance, Color Space, Gamma, ISO..Premiere Pro can do this for years!!!???? (see image). Why we don't get this in After Effects? 

If I am in the product designers team, I could innovate a feature called stroke individual corner radius.This will basically be an extra feature of the flexibility of controlling stroke properties.I'm preparing the case study now. After completing I'll share that with you guys. Keep being awesome.

I tend to have a lot of composition panel tabs open at once. Sometimes when opening a precomp, after making changes and closing it, I'll forget exactly where my parent comp is in the array of composition tabs that are open.It would be nice if there was a shortcut, or an option to toggle, where closing the current composition tab will return focus to the next open parent in the flowchart, rather than whatever comp tab is directly left.

I really think that ae needs a native text box that works with the text animators. So that it animates up with each word or character and also so that we can put the box around specific words in a sentence. The hacks around creating text boxes this are overly complicated and time consuming. I've been asked to create templates with this feature and the only solution I have found that works perfectly involves splitting a single text layer into one layer for each word as it fades up. So instead of potentially one layer of text, I end up with 40 and the mogrt becomes extremely slow and heavy in Premiere. It seems like this basic feature is sorely missing in a graphics program.     

It is essential for medium to large studios to have the ability to switch the enabled plugins in After Effects through a startup option by creating a plugin list in a format such as JSON beforehand. This is because it is common for different plugins to be required for each project in a studio. Allowing the use of plugins that should not be used can cause confusion in the workflow and contract disputes.For example,/Project_A・using Trapcode Suite 16・using Boris FX Sapphire.../Project_B・using Trapcode Suite 15・DO NOT use Boris FX Sapphire...These settings can be switched as options at startup. It would also be useful to include the actual aex plugin directory in the plugin list.I am saddened by the fact that After Effects, with its long history, does not have this feature. I hope that After Effects will continue to evolve into software that satisfies production needs.

I noticed in a tutorial, in the Photoshop timeline, that layers are also tracks for editing.  That you can move different footage to a single track if not needed for compositing (ala Premier).  That feature would greatly simplify everyone of my After Effects projects even if just editing assembled precomps without having to link to a Premiere project. Of course that opens a separate thead re caching/playback.    

I love Create Shapes from Vector Layer.But, to keep things organized, it would be nice when Ae keeps the names I give paths / sublayers in Adobe Illustrator. Currently paths are renamed Path 1, Path 2, Path 3. Not very descriptive.