AFTER EFFECTS WISHLIST

first of all. Thanks for a great program...

I would definetly like better and more precise rendering in 3D space. Often when my comps get complex with a lot of layers in 3D AE cant figure out whats infront and behind and there´s a lot of flickering where some planes shift from being infront and behind of eachother. Or you can see edges of a layer behind trough the one in front. Of course this has to do with the way AE priorities the render order from bottom to top, but it´s not good enough when a camera rotates 360 deegrees in a complex model.

and it would be great with a script for changing comp size that worked for 3d projects. I receantly statrted to make a project in 1080p but changed it to 720p and had to manualy adjust all my camerawork.

More detailed undo history.

And 3D tracking right out of the box

Best regards...

I would really like to see a better undo-history in AE.

It would be great to see more information in the undo list, because at the moment it consists of state names that are not very meaningfull. For example there might be listed "undo change value" 20 times in a row, and those are all different changes on different layers and properties.

So instead of having "change value" listed 20 times, I would like to see information like "Undo Change Position Layer 2", "Undo Change Rotation Layer 5" etc.

Oh and a history panel would be nice too. Why do almost every other Adobe app have it but not AE?

Another one recently submitted:

Request: Preference for coloring text of asset in project window to match it's label color.

The above request would make it easier to quickly identify what kind of asset is specifically labeled when scrolling through the project window (without having to show the Label column). It could be accessed via a toggle preference in the Labels subsection of the application's prefs.

I don't want something added - but rather subtracted from AE.  I have an Apple magic mouse which I have a love/hate relationship with since scrolling is so easy- often too easy.  When I mouse over the tabs for compositions in my timeline window and accidentally scroll, it scrolls through which tab is open.  And it seems to scroll in the opposite direction one would want.  Very frustrating and I can't imagine that feature is useful to anyone- even those without magic mice.

A feature request form has been filed for this just a few minutes ago, but for redundancy's sake...it would be excellent if the audio panel was able to cache or leave some sort of hash mark where the channels peak during RAM preview or audio-only preview of a timeline. This would help identify out of range audio.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN AFTER EFFECTS,  A COMPOSITON MARKER COLOR OPTION.  IT WILL BE NICE IF I CAN SEE IN MY TIMELINE SOME "DIVISIONS" MORE VISIBLE TO ME WITH THESE MARKERS,   LIKE IF I COULD MARK SOME FIELDS,

BECAUSE WE USUALLY APPLY MORE THAN 300 LAYERS IN A ROW, SO... I HAVE SEPARATE LAYERS IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF MY TIMELINE..

IF I COULD VISUALIZE THOSE SECTIONS IN THE TOP OF MY COMPOSITION MARKERS, IT WILL BE MORE EASY TO ME , WHERE I HAVE TO WORK ON.

THANKS

In the prefs, change "CPUs reserved for other applications"  to either "Cores" or "Threads" reserved.

CPU is a bit of an antiquated term in today's multicore world, no?

Hello all,

ONE SIMPLE IMPROVEMENT for PS into AE,which will help me to make high quality 3d broadcast graphics,

please improve the PS 3D feature so I can import PS 3D layers in AE not as 2D but as real 3D itself. like import from other 3D apps....

Sheesh, I've got to unsubscribe form this thread. I cannot help but wonder where this discussion would be going if more of us had begun your motion graphics careers with AEv2.1 or AEv3.0.

I don't need anything added to AE. Fix the few things that are broken and contiue to work toward standardizing the interfaces among all of the apps.

Y'all let me know when AE CS6 is ready to ship.

bogiesan

Still dreaming about the ability to use folders in the timeline. Photoshop can group layers inside folders and its a great feature. Encore can do the same. Why oh why can't After Effects?