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Mike Choo
Mike ChooInspiring

Add tooltips to effect property controlsOpen for Voting

Add an option for developers to add tooltip text help to effect property controls. This would help with discoverability of features, as well as reducing confusion when returning to an infrequently used effect, for example in a old project or a received projects. It would be particularly useful for new users to learn AE, or when dealing with a new plugin and the property labels might not be able to fully convey what effect that control will actually have. A global preference to turn tooltips on or off would be useful too, for users who do not want to see them. Perhaps a tooltip activation time could be set by the user too, so that a longer hover would be required to avoid them appearing too frequently for experienced users. Another option might be for tooltips to display in the Effects Panel, Timeline, or both. Some users might prefer to only have them show in the Effects Panel for example, but not want the extra visual density in the timeline. A next-level bonus would be to have the tooltips be able to link directly to a help page for that specific feature - not dissimilarly to how Cinema help works by opening the relevant help page (usually 😂), or the ‘i’ icon in Plasticity that takes the user directly to the web page for the selected tool. But the core request would be to have tooltips that can be added per-property by developers to aid discoverability and improve the user experience.

Mike Choo
Mike ChooInspiring

Set pre-property keyframe coloursOpen for Voting

NOTE - Title should read ‘Set PER-property keyframe colours’. Typo in the title and I don’t know where to change it 🤦🏾‍♂️ I’d like to request to be able to set keyframe colours on a per-property basis - for example to set the X, Y and Z position properties to Red, green and blue respectively to aid identification in a busy timeline. Currently keyframe colours can be set on selections, but newly-created keyframes do not inherit from the ones that already exist. Maybe an option to either:a) right click a property and set a colour label from that property, and all keys created from that point would take on the selected colour, or  b) have a preference for newly created keyframes to take the colour of the nearest keyframe of the same property. This would probably require an extra option to decide if previous or next keyframe was favoured as the colour source in case of identical spacing. I think that option a) is more straightforward to understand - users would pick a colour for a property, all new keyframes would inherit that colour, if the user changed the selected colour for that property all new keyframes after that point would take on the second colour, and any existing ones could be recoloured as per the existing workflow. The benefit of being able to do this would be that in complex comps or rigs where a lot of keys need to be visible at the same time it helps with visual identification, which reduces time spent hunting and helps keep flow.