AFTER EFFECTS WISH LIST (Prior to Sept 09)

Much, much better, much more efficient SWF export.
1. Shouldn't get X thousand symbols when exporting mask sequence.
2. Exporting shape layers as vector instead raster
3. Well, more efficient auto-trace

The one and only request I have is to create a meaningful animation curve interface. Many before me have posted on the necessity of this feature, because it is the single most dominating thing holding AE animations back from the fluid rolling motion attainable in 3D software.

Coming from Maya, working with curves in AE is a nightmare. The simple reason is this: Not all keyable attributes have the same value system. For example, If i wish to adjust a scale curve, i can key the value from 0 to 100%. However, if i wish to key position, my curve must always go from 0 to 0, making it impossible to match the way these two properties animate.

The only solution to this problem that I can think of is converting everything to pixel (or some virtual unit) values.

Along those lines, I refer back to my request for "Constraints". Constrain to position, orientation, direction, pose (kinda all of the above), Distance, Scaling, Symmetry path (curve), Surface, 2 Point, 3 Point, Npoint - all with keyframable weight parameters...

(works great in XSI)

While we are requesting new auto-orient features, how about making auto-orient a keyframeable property?

I'd like to see an "Orient To Layer" function in the auto-orient options, so you could define a layer that the target layer will always orient towards. I know it can be achieved with expressions, but it'd be a nice thing to do in one easy step.

Joey,

Trust me, those three are among the top requested features. The second one actually goes by the name of "über-twirl" and has been among the most requested features for several versions. That feature alone would make the upgrade worthwhile!

- Jonas Hummelstrand
http://generalspecialist.com/

These have all been logged by me with Adobe (many times) using the "Feature Request" page for the last 3 versions of the software. Can't figure out why they don't think these wouldn't be an asset to the program:

An intra-project search function that displays properties of every layer. Opening someone else's project with thousands of comps / precomps currently is a NIGHTMARE without this function. I want to be able to look for a layer that has a missing plug-in on it that is buried within 30 precomps and go directly to it.

A Precomp drop-down in the timeline for showing the contents of a precomp rather than having to open it in a separate tab in the timeline.

View Labels (Heads Up Display - like a 3D program) in the corners of multi-view Comp Window sets (Top / Bottom / Front / Back / Right / Left / Perspective)

...more later.

Joey

I wish there was a lasso tool for selecting mask points. Also, maybe a grow selection on mask points, so you could select some points, and then ctrl + (or whatever) to grow the selection on nearby points.

Would be handy to change the colour of the project folders. They are all blue and with many folders it's hard to read through them all.

AHHHHhhhhh I was clicking on the drop down arrow, nice one Andrew.