Feature Requests

It will be a miracle to see Firefly AI in After Effects

You need to have two vertex selected in order to open a path, otherwise the "closed" property just appears selected, dimmed and blocked. I would allow users to click on it, and warn them about the requirement of having two vertex selected. Otherwise you need to google it in order to get to this relevant info.

In some 3d software, they use highlight selections to let you know if you select a layer it has a relationship to another. The way that Bins alert to you to 3d stacks is a visual relationship example. Sometimes when cleaning up projects I'll go and remove layers that are turned off but not know if they are used with an effect (set matte) or track matte in a dense comp. I wish there was a way to know if a layer was being used or not, even if it was a pop up when deleting -- hey this layer is currently being used by set matte on layer 14 and 19. Thats all. 

Being able to select any layer in the stack as track layer was a long time dream feature.The problem I have now is that this new feature instead of being some additional feature to Track Mattes, completely replaced the old one - no bueno 😕😕1. There still needs to be a simple way of making the above layer a track matte like we used to.Right now we have to use the pickwhip, which is not fast or comfortable by any means, or pick the above layer from an all layers in comp dropdown. Well I'm on layer 67 of my comp and I want layer 66 to become the track matte - scrolling down through the layer list down to layer 66 is again not fast and not comfortable.I don't know make right clicking the layer dropdown automatically select the above layer as track matte, give us a keyborad shortcut that when pressed will make the above layer a track matte, at the very least make the current layer more visible in the dropdown list so it's easier to scroll down and find it - maybe bold font??

Hi I absolutely love the new track matte system!!!Kudo's to the devs its a really really nice change. However one thing was lost in the new system, previously when you copied a layer and the layer it was trackmatted to the trackmatte updated to fit the new layer. Atm it isnt like this. I included a video with an example. (Its kind of hard to describe properly since my second language is english) What would be ideal is that AE checks if the track matted layer is also being copied and makes the new copy automaticly update to the new one instead of the old one. If this description is kind of confusing please watch the video it makes it a bit more clear. Much love, Dierenwinkel

Request for Improvement of  the search in the Online User Guide: Is there a way to search only within the After Effects User guide? (Instead of the Community, Tutorials,Account info, Support, etc.?)  For example, I search "Pre-render" in the search bar. I do not get any relevant results. Even though "Pre-render" is a command within the software.  No links to the User Manual, just irrelevant articles.I'd rather search and quickly jump to the desciption of it in the User Manual only.  Is there no way to do that? Almost always I have to do a Google search. Better yet, do you still have an offline manual?  Years ago, when there were offline manuals, I think I could get the info I needed much quicker.It's a request for a feature that's been lost, I guess. Thank you.

Per the title: when I get the "not enough available space for the disc cache, please go to preferences" warning, I have the choice to turn off the warning overall or display it once per session. Since AE doesn't delete cached files, it's critical to empty the cache and it means going to preferences and manually clearing the cache. PLEASE consider adding an "empty cache now" button to the warning dialog. I've requested this in the past - it trips up new users and it adds a few steps for experienced users. It would be so simple and fast to just give us ONE BUTTON to do this when we're warned it's necessary. Not a critical bug fix, but it would be a nice streamlined feature that doesn't seem like you'd need to re-write a lot of code.

When working with lists of parameters in plugins like Element 3D, Particular etc. When we set keyframes for various effects, in the timeline we simply highlight a specific layer with our effect, hit the "u" key and every parameter with a keyframe is revealed. Why not give us the exact same feature in the effects control panel. Click the desired effect, hit "u" and that specific effect spins down all the parameters with a keyframe. This would clean up the confusion of a lot of these more complex plugins while allowing us to focus on just the parameters we are keyframing. Is this an After Effects feature or the individual 3rd party plugin? If you think this would be a welcome feature, please vote. Thanks!R.Cates

バージョン23.4からのプロジェクトパネル上でのソート順が変更されたことに伴って、数値の並び方以外も大きく変わってしまっています。特に 漢字/ひらがな/カタカナ/記号/数字/アルファベット が混在している場合、文字種ごとではなく、規則性もわからないほどバラバラに並んでしまいます。以前のような規則性が失われてしまっているのは仕様なのでしょうか？バグであれば改善をお願いしたいです。 ※AEのバージョンは23.5で日本語版を使用しています。

It would be great that when I create a precomp, if I could designate a folder for them to be created in the project. Just like when you create a solid, it automatically goes into a precomp folder, it would be nice to have a general option to check that puts precomps in the "Precomp" folder. 

Se me ocurrió una idea para AE:Live Images,una función que puede mover cualquier imagen en 2D con las capas separadas de la misma en Photoshop. Usando una mejorada función de Puppet,los usuarios podrán mover una ilustración con más posibilidades que nunca.

Hi, I'd like to suggest adding an audio notification to the 'The selected output module will overwrite a file that already exists.' modal dialog box that pops up when rendering from render queue. There's been times when I've pressed render, locked my screen and walked away, while actually leaving AE sat on this dialog and not rendering. That's on me, but if there was an audio notification when this popped up it would be a nice quality of life impreovement that would help reduce these happenings. Like a car beeping if you've left your lights on. Cheers!

The properties panel is such a great addition to the software. I feel it could go a step further by displaying some editable comp information (comp dimensions, framerate, etc) if no layers are selected. This would bypass hitting command/ctrl + K to edit the comp or even just to check the dimensions of the comp. Thoughts?

The feather mask tool was introduced, like 10 years ago.And still I have yet to see a single artist using it.The reason is simple, and it had been brought up from the very beginning: the feather keyframes are the same as the mask shape keyframes - it's ridiculous.Every roto artist in every software does shapes first and feathering later - but this workflow is impossible with AE - if we do shapes first, then we have to redo the feather on every single frame with a mask shape keyframe on it.Can we pleaaase have a separate feather keyframe track?Most rotojobs require like 20-30 mask shape keyframes but only 2-3 fether keyframes - there is no reason why these two properties shouldn't have two separate animation tracks 😕😕

Hi Adobe,Can you please make it so that Ae will recongize variable stoke width profiles from Ai into Ae? Rather than tuing them into compound paths or closed paths. I am creating animations with a specific look and it requires the strokes taper. I don't want cloaws paths as my strokes when I import he Ai file and then do "Right click > Create Shapes from Vector Layer". I need them to remain at strokes.The same issue is talked about here:https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/width-tool-problem/m-p/13896891#M371605Best regards,A Very Tired Motion Designer

Currently, the behavior when collecting files is to reopen the project that was the collect source.  I believe it would be best to open the collected project.  I would suggest a user option in the collect files dialog to control what project is opened after the collect process.I've been using After Effects 23 years.  For all this time, after every collect, i must wait for it to load the old project and then i immediately open the collected project to check it.  Every time.  Currently i am responsible for archiving the work of 6-10 other compositores for our clients and ourselves.  I sometimes do more than 60 collects per week.Every collect must be visually inspected.  Usually these are reduced from the source project so they load much faster.  Loading the original source project wastes time.making this a toggle option will allow current behavior to be the default and load of collect to be the optional choice.[x] Load collected  project when

Hi You All,I'd like to be able to not only move pieces of composition left/right in the timeline but also up and down, like in Premiere. Doable? 😉 Thanks!

When exporting a video using After Effects then you must manually change the bitrate while considering the resolution, frame rate, and high dynamic range. This is a tedious and frustrating aspect that is not intutive and yet is vital in ensuring the exported video is high quality. To streamline this difficulity, I would like to request the addition of a CRF slider into the H264/HEVC export settings panel. This feature already exists in FFmpeg and AfterCodecs and is quite useful. From the FFmpeg documentation:Constant Rate Factor (CRF) - Use this rate control mode if you want to keep the best quality and care less about the file size. This method allows the encoder to attempt to achieve a certain output quality for the whole file when output file size is of less importance. This provides maximum compression efficiency with a single pass. By adjusting the so-called quantizer for each frame, it gets the bitrate it needs to keep the requested quality level. The downside is that y

The concept of generative live tracing in video content, accompanied by AI-powered recoloring of the output, enables users to create seamless and consistent animations with stable color palettes derived from video sources. Inspired by the recent demonstration of AI-driven recoloring of vector art at the Figma convention, the notion of applying this approach to videos within After Effects sparked intriguing possibilities. Colorists have been utilizing Look-Up Tables (LUTs) for many years, and the idea of adapting and fine-tuning the outcomes of live tracing dynamically adds an extra layer of fascination to the process.

for now,if we want to reset the footage or comp in/out point on timeline,we need to set it in the layer panel after double-clicking and manual setting it,or dragging in/out point on the timeline.if there's a shortcut to reset or align the original(source) in/out points. Such shortcut would be really useful.

Since the non-beta version 23.4 properties panel appeared, but it need a little useful improvement: when you add in shape layer effects like Trim Path, Repeater, Twist and so on they aren't shown in propety panel.   It would be useful if such effects will appear in propety panel while adding them 

I find myself using Adobe Bridge more and more.AE has Reveal in Explorer on right click contextual menus.Why not add Reveal in Bridge?

It's nice to be able to switch layers during while composition time progresses.

Duplicating / copying keyframes on multiple layers is quite a hazzle.Alt Drag now scales the keyframe selection in time, but intuitively, througout CC, Alt Drag creates a duplicate of the selection. Please make that happen in Ae too (also for Layers...) The time scale for keyframes should get a new shortcut in that case.

All of the new motion template features are always a delight to come across, but I think the one key feature we need when creating mogrts is the ability to resize text boxes.When I'm creating a lower third, the client likes to have the option to make the container longer or shorter, except when that feature is implemented, the text box they are allowed to type within cannot be altered as well (without a very lengthy and complicated workaround).Sometimes line text doesn't cut it as you still need the text to stay within a specified area, it would be great to see a feature where you can contain paragraph text within the bounds of a shape layer, or just have more control over the text boundaries with keyframes and expressions.Thanks!