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I hate the way AE handles 3D.  Like how when you click to make a layer 3D and it will jump somewhere else in the comp because it isn't aligned to the current view.  Everything 3D is just so BAD - I'd like to see them overhaul the 3d workspace completely and make it more logical.  Timeline folders.  It's insane that we still don't have them, and disk preview instead of RAM preview - NVME are plenty fast enough that previews can just be rendered to the disk temporarily 

I wish multiple clips could be place on the same layer. As of now you can only place 1 clip on a single layer. I wish it was like PPro.

Thank God, if we wish to loop a clip we can loop it in its property. However if I wanted a set of 2 clips of one kind and 1 other another kind loop several times. My comp woyuld grow vertically as well as horizontally. Severe real estate wastage and bad ergonomics.

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A simple wish, difficult to implement for commercial reasons - Allow multiple clips in the same layer. Period. AE will replace PP. Allow PP style transitions in AE. You won't need PP any more. Sound's like an atomic bomb?

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1/ Allow camera Point Of Interest to have Seperate Dimensions (PLEASE!!!)

2/ Be able to lock Focus Distance to Point Of Interest
3/ To be able to lock Focal Distance and/or Point of Interest to an object or null

This may have been listed here already, but what about a way to extend all nested comps to match the length of the parent comp? There's already a 3rd party script for this (rd: Comp Setter - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com ) but having it built in would be nice. There could be a checkbox to have all nested comps extended/trimmed in the Composition Settings dialogue box. Maybe any layer in the nested comps that goes until the end of that comp's timeline would automatically be extended as well (perhaps via a secondary checkbox)?

For the love of all that's holy I wish AE was even partway intelligent about locating missing footage. In other Adobe apps like InDesign, finding one missing asset automatically leads to the app locating any other missing files in the same folder, or even in the same relative folder structure. AE is dreadful at this. The number of times I end up having to manually re-link a whole bunch of images in the same folder is just maddening.

I would really like to if there was a way to have a layer override so that you could preview at, say, a quarter res, but have an override that makes one layer, for example a safe overlay image from a client, at full res so you can completely make out the edges.

It sounds simple in my head, but I'm sure it'll be a nightmare

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Ability to add 3d layers to be a true 3d space precomp

Like when 2 or more 3d layers are precompd together you have an option for true 3d space

So... just goign tofire these off here again... I know that we need to use the request link.

Feature Request/Bug Report Form

But need to actually get people to put in more requests

3D Space

Make it more like a 3d Application. It's all very forced 2D now

3D Connection Support

Interface

Goddamn easy Keyboard shortcut customisation on windows!  it's 2016! 

Kill all the Modal pop ups - like the comp settings.  Make it a panel so you can change it on the fly or be able to select multiple comps and change them.

Same for any other modal pops - lights / cameras / Solids / placeholder - All of them! Make them panels!

3 features that may or may not already exist that I'd like to exist:

(please do tell me if it already exists)

When making shape layers, rather than using only merge paths implements - how about an actual mask tool within shape groups?

Or a stencil alpha in the compositing effects dropdown-> then a black shape could act as a clipping mask within a shape layer group

OR within merge paths add a  'path only' option/section that ignores fill values?

usage: for complex shapes where merge paths has undesirable effects.

Grouping layers within comps as has been already suggested

A 'thisGroup' type code for expressions.

Usage example:

Random moustache generator
Expression control slider  number (1-5)

5 moustache shapes named 1,2,3,4 & 5

• on slider:
  • seedRandom(0,1);
  • random(1,5);
• on each moustache groups transparency
  • if(thisGroup.name == effect(moustache number)) 100 else 0;

Easy to then duplicate moustache layers and add more types without modifying code each time