AFTER EFFECTS WISH LIST (Prior to Sept 09)

An option in the preferences that "forces" any project you open to use your most recent/current workspace.

-Proper curve editor a'la 3ds max, maya and the likes.
-Ability to import RLA/RPF metadata (pixel motion vectors for motion blur!)
-Much better integration with 3d modeling tools (import and export camera and helper nulls)
-Continuously rasterize and collapse transformations should not be the same switch! If you have a precomp with vector layers you can't rasterize them without messing up everything else in the process.
-Scanline renderer! AE's current layer-by-layer computing/caching system makes it pretty much useless for BIG compositions with high resolution elements.
-Better resource (memory) management. All too many times you see AE just run out of memory and topple instead of even trying to swap anything onto a harddrive or empty layer caches by itself.
-And finally, please, PLEASE make AE update "open recent" list more often since if AE crashes it will forget the last open item and so many times I find to have been accidentally working on an old version because I didn't realize this at first. Also "remember last used directory" is a problem if you're working simultaneously between many projects and you have to swap between them often. The last used directory will be the one used for previous project and not the current one. It should always default to the project directory (where the aep. file is located).

Thanks.

It's been a few months since the introduction of XDCam support in Premiere and I was wondering how much longer before AE gets the support update?

Here's a simple one: Drag-and-drop from the source window as well as from the project window. I keep wanting to set in-point, set out-point, drag to comp. I keep trying and then realizing I have to set the cursor and hit the "overlay edit" button.

Just an alternative option.

Hey David, I compare what you are asking for is kinda like the Apple's new Snow Leopard OS. No new features, but optimizations all over the board. But also costing less than a full upgrade.

David, while I'm sympathetic to what you are saying, wouldn't you feel, at least on some level, that you were being cheated if a paid upgrade contained only optimizations and bug fixes? Wouldn't you feel like you were paying another $300 for the product you were supposed to get with the last $300 upgrade?

I humbly ask the Adobe After Effects team to concentrate first on fixing anything and everything that is broken or buggy before adding any more complexity to this application.

Make it more elgant, make it easier to use, make it faster... sure, fine. But invest the creative energy and geek resources to making it work flawlessly instead of adding more stuff.

bogiesan

It would be awesome if Adobe could make a plug-in out of one of this year's SIGGRAPH presentations! Infinite cosmic zooms from any photograph!

Multiscale Texture Synthesis
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/cg/mts/

movie (must see)
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/cg/mts/mts.mov

Hi, i wish "Shape Motion Track" for next cs4 version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsP4I6rC3Rg <-this is what i mean.
I also hope possibility to see each selected Vertex keyframes on timeline, so i can see each selected Vertex keyframe and see that where is the problem in the graph editor. And it would be nice to have possible to track motion for each Vertex by one by one.

When you twirl down a layer so that you can see the "fx" box next to an effect, I'd like a pickwhip next to that box. From there you can pickwhip an effect on another layer.

Doing that links *all parameters* between the two. That would be a fantastic compositing feature.