Feature Requests

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

I have found the solution, after upgrade caption to graph, select all the graph captions  Select all the graph of captionNow in the properties click on the wrench icon of the text, PropertiesChange Text layer type to Point Text Select TextSelect Ok. Now copy layers and paste it to AE.  Now you can easily add effects and un-precompose or any thing you like. 

Hey! When using the Pickwhip to reference things while writing expressions I frequently forget to twirl open the property I intend to select. This usually means that I have to exit writing the expression where I am, twirl open the property in the timeline to make it visible, then resume the expression writing / pickwhip and carry on.It would be a good quality of life improvement if while dragging the pickwhip, hovering over a twirled-up item would unfold it. The closest analogue would be dragging a file into the Project Panel - if I hover over a closed Project Panel folder for a second or so it will twirl open.I’d initially suggest that this would only be useful to have on the Expression Pickwhip - there seems to be limited functional use for adding it to the Matte or Parent Pickwhips.Perhaps a longer timeout when hovering over a layer itself compared to hovering over a layer property might be useful - that way users would be less likely to trigger un-twirling when simply selecting top

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! 

After Effects currently shows where keyframes exist, but it does not clearly show where a property is actually changing over time.I would love an optional timeline display mode that visually indicates the spans between keyframes where a property’s value is actively animated.For example, if a Position property has four keyframes:Keyframe 1 to Keyframe 2: Position changes → show a colored bar or highlighted span. Keyframe 2 to Keyframe 3: Both keyframes have the same value → no bar. Keyframe 3 to Keyframe 4: Position changes again → show a bar.This would make it much easier to open a complex comp and quickly understand where animation is actually happening, versus where keyframes simply preserve a pose or were copied forward.A few useful details:The indicator could appear directly beneath or behind the property’s keyframes. Hold keyframes could use a different pattern or color than interpolated animation. It would be especially helpful if collapsed layers could show an aggregated indicat

Please add mogrt batch export functionality to After Effects.I will try to describe the current exporting process the best I can.Click the "Export Motion Graphics Template..." button -> Being asked to Save the project -> Wait for After Effects to Save and apparently iterate through every comp for some reason -> Wait for project to open -> Write mogrt tags -> Wait for mogrt to saveDepending on the project, this process might take several minutes. Did you seriously expect your users that might need to export dozens of templates to do this manually? It literally means wasting hours just exporting files in one of the most tedious processes I've ever experienced. Has this not been considered or is it just too difficult to implement?

The After Effects user interface is very diffuclt to work with at 4k, even on very large monitors. To wit, on a 32" monitor at 3840x2160, the text of a layer name is 1/16 of an inch tall– 8 layers are packed into each vertical inch. The Console Debug "AdobeCleanFontSize" workaround has no effect on some aspects of the interface, such as layer names, text in effect control panes, etc. This undersized UI poses legibility challenges, and slows workflow by requiring an extrordinary level of pointing accuracy to click on things. Illustrator solves this problem elegantly by adding a "UI scaling" slider control to the "User Interface" pref pane. Photoshop solves this problem a bit less elegantly but still effectively with a "UI Font Size" and a "Scale UI to Font" option.  I suggest the AE team adopts one of these appoaches.  I'd also suggets that this be a very high priority. It is necessary for most AE artists to work at 4k these days, making this an annoyance that I deal with

The Problem: Currently, when After Effects attempts to read a media file that is marked as "online-only" via Dropbox's legacy sync mode, it errors out. Instead of triggering a download, AE reads the raw 0-byte placeholder file, fails, and throws a "Media Offline" or bad header error.To make matters worse, AE then permanently caches this 0-byte state in the Common Media Cache. Even if we go into Finder, right-click the file, and select "Make Available Offline," AE will still refuse to read the newly downloaded physical file until we manually navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Media Cache Files and trash the cache. I build a custom bash command to handle this situation which mitigates a bit but still hard to explain to the whole team every time this happens or to freelancers.  Why "Just update to macOS FileProvider" isn't an option: The standard response from Adobe support is usually to ensure we are using the modern macOS File Provider API for cloud sync. However, Dr

Description:Currently, this is only panel that doesn’t automatically update when you switch to a different active composition. If it’s going to lock to a different target comp, there should be a lock icon like Effect Controls and Comp/Layer/Footage viewer panels. Additionally, if the lock icon was added, then it should match the logic when new unlocked panels automatically open when you already have a panel of that type locked.(e.g. Lock your Effect Controls panel, switch to a different comp, and double-click on an effect’s name in the timeline. A new unlocked Effect Controls panel opens next to the previous panel.) This additional panel would then give the user the ability to work with multiple EG panels at once. This could be very handy when designing multiple EG settings/mogrts that should look identical/similarily. Why:Often times, I try to add properties to the wrong EG comp, just to be greeted with an error. (It could be said that instead of an error, it should aut

When copying keyframes from a layer’s Scale property and pasting them to a shape’s Scale property, AE returns an error:After Effects (Beta) error: The paste cannot be completed. Please check the copy and paste is between similar types of properties.Details: The clipboard contains data with a different number of dimensions (3) than the paste target requires (2). ( 26 :: 269 )While correct, it’s not intuitive. It would be helpful if, when copy-pasting from a 3-dimensional property to a related 2-dimensional property, the third dimension is ignored. Conversely, if copy-pasting from a 2- dimensional property to a related 3-dimensional property, paste in the first and second dimensions, and retain the existing third dimension already set on the property.

I just finished a session with one of Adobe’s help desk officers, trying to find a way to import SVGs from Affinity Studio into After Effects in a way that would generate a composition of individual shape layers for each vector layer. Unfortunately all I get is one shape layer with a bunch of groups nested inside. Apparently this is due to the way in which Affinity exports SVGs, where layers are somehow turned into groups. That’s a bummer and of course rather Affinity’s problem than AE’s, but if there was a way in which the SVG import could be improved with an option to turn SVG groups into layers too, that would help my workflow a lot :-)

I'm sure this has been asked for before, but I know I'm not alone in wanting character and/or paragraph styels in AE, which would behave exactly lkike those in InDesign/Illustrator (except with a few animatable parameters maybe!). I've just watched @JohnColombo17100380 and friends on YouTube, and will (for now) be implementing an adaptation of their expression. But it's a lot of faff compared to adding a style in Ai/Id etc! Could we please have character styles / paragraph styles in AE?

When you do Layer > New > Null Object it comes into your comp as Transparent. But when you open a new comp and want to use the same null dragging it in from the SOLIDS folder, it’s now opaque. I can’t imagine anyone using a 100x100 Null Object as an actual solid. Can you make it so that all Null objects always stay transparent (even in the solids folder) as if you created a new one? 🙏

I can't believe this is not in AE already, but can we have a keyboard shortcut that will allow us to place a clip onto a new layer in the timeline at the playhead so we don't have to keep dragging them in manually. I know that I can hold command (control in Windows)  and drag to the timeline, but that is still much slower than simply using a key command. Please and Thank You!

As a 3D person importing image sequences pretty regularly, it would be excellent to just be able to select all of the footage I've imported and interpret the footage all at once. Currently, you have to:Select a single item Interpret the footage properties Select that item again COPY the interpretation Select everything else Paste that interpretationThis could just be a single step with a single dialogue. 

I want to be able to create Arrays, whether that’s shape arrays, text arrays, image arrays, any kind of Array.  With companies asking for more and more output.  After effects needs to start moving towards procedural creation.  Arrays are the first step.  

It would be great to have an autosave option that works regardless of whether we've manually saved the project or not. I have autosave configured to run every 20 minutes, but I tend to save my project manually very frequently (every 5–10 minutes), so no autosave copies are generated.Sometimes I find that I need to recover something I deleted an hour ago, but I don't have any autosaved version available.

I wish there was a way to accurately and quickly use color swatches from my Creative Cloud color library in my After Effects projects. I create digital assets for many different brands, so I have their respective RGB colors saved in my CC library. When I choose those swatches in Photoshop, the Hex codes are correct and the colors are accurate. The only way I've found to choose a CC library color swatch in After Effects is by using the eyedropper tool. While this generally works okay, there are certain colors that are inaccurate and the Hex codes don't match. I don't understand why it works fine in Photoshop but not in After Effects. Both working spaces are sRGB IEC61966-2.1 and both use Adobe color management. So the eyedropper function in After Effects needs to be accurate, or there could possibly be a swatches panel in After Effects...or something! Help me out Adobe, I can't be the only one struggling with this.

We need the ability to resolve missing fonts by selecting an alternative installed font from the computer, not just an Adobe font. Ideally it would also be possible to replace specific fonts in a project, even if they aren't missing. The same way most other Adobe apps handle it.

*feature request*Blackmagic announced support for drag and drop .af files into DaVinci Resolve, including access to individual layers via “Split Layers into Place” in Fusion. Much like the way Resolves supports .psd files. I’m receiving more and more affinity files. Would be good if Ae and Pr supported .af natively too. Now I need to open the .af in Affinity and use the save as psd option.

The potential of Media Replacement in MOGRT's for creating responsive design is huge, but it is hamstrung by the inability for expressions to access any information about the media itself. A simple, concrete example is that I am building some MOGRT's for photo treatments, with a simple white frame that needs to match the aspect ratio of the photo the editor drops into it. This would be trivial in After Effects using footage replacement, but with Media Replacement through Essential Properties in AE or in Premiere, when expressions reference the footage they only see the original footage used in the template. This means the editor has to manually adjust the dimensions of the photo frame using fiddly controls in the EG Edit panel.

Hey! The idea here is when importing an After Effects project into your current one, you would have the option to either bring in the entire project, as is the current behaviour, OR to select the specific comp(s) you wanted to import and only they would be brought in, along with the assets used in those comps. This could behave in a similar manner to Premiere importing another project - similar to the  'Import Project' modal. The equivalent option from that list to the proposed idea would be 'Import selected sequences'. The reason this would be useful is to import assets from a different AE project at the moment can be time consuming. There are existing options - either import the entire reference project (which can either result in a bloated main project, or time spent pruning the unwanted parts, with the associated risk of accidentally deleting something that's used), or to reduce the source project and/or some variant of save comp as project. Being able to s

please add un-precomp feature to after effectit will be a great thing to have(with shortcut please)i work with captions, and layers from premier proi always end up doing it manually