AFTER EFFECTS WISHLIST

i just want adobe to put mocha inside ae and buy the rights of some plugins like " trapcode particular" and "Zaxwerks 3d invogorator or animator" so the package must come with these....

and also i want 3d motion tracking in ae...

in addition to these also "direct linkingof ae camera moves  to 3ds max cameras or opposite" would be nice!

How about an option to (If it doesn't already exist and i'm too blind to see it) shutdown your computer once a render or group or renders in completed?

I hate leaving my computer running for any longer than I have to so if I go to bed or what have you I don't like leaving it on for hours doing nothing.

Now all new projects are in full HD. If we want to continue using After-Effects with compositions of 50-100 layers, we need an X64 Bits version which quickly manages multithreading.

OMG, y'all!  Please fix this whole model dialog box warning hell. How about an error panel, similar to Growl (if not supporting Growl directly)?

Here's what I had to put up with this morning.  I freakin' get it -- you can't find a font!

Do I really need to be alerted by every single layer that uses it? And does it need to completely tie up AE until I click 'ok'?

After effects for me is the best software for compositing , but it would be nice to debug some functions :
In the project window, if I delete the first frame of a sequence in the explorer, After can't find it anymore in the project sequence.  And sometimes when I open a composition on on another machine it doesn't automatically find the files collected. When I collect files, if there is a copy error, it's stop.
In the expressions, if I open a project in another language that doesn't work anymore.
The region of interest doesn't render faster with effects than with the whole image.

best regards,

Léon

How about a ROI/Crop layer using something like a shape layer?

Just think, you could set up multiple crops or ROIs in one comp. Also, by using a rectangular layer, you have numerical control over placement and size -- plus the ability to copy and paste crop/ROI zones to different comps. (Something that can't be done now)

For Christmas I want:

Soft Selection for pins on the puppet tool (see Autodesk 3DS Max soft selection feature)

A more feature-heavy gradient than the antiquated "ramp".  I want easing, multiple points of color, the whole works.  (and yes, I know, gradient overlay blah blah I want it in an EFFECT please...or maybe just take one of the requests above and move layer styles to the effects palette)

Scopes yes please.  Just jack them from premiere thanks.

App-native customizable hotkeys (c'mon let it go guys)...or at the very least leave MY hotkeys alone; I'm STILL upset about ctrl+G.

But I will trade all of that for CUSTOMIZABLE BRUSHES oh lord please please please BRUSHES BRUSHES BRUSHES (I'm talking about like importing photoshop or illustrator brushes or the like, not the dusty OLD brush system in place now)

Oh, and my students would like a "create-passing-grade-motion-graphics-project" plugin, so they will have to "stop doing so much work".  Just a one click thing would be fine for them.

THANKS

As you can split the main comp view in to 2 views, 4 views etc,  would it be possible to allow, say your primary comp in the left view and a pre-comp (within the primary comp) in the right view so if you modify an animation in the pre-comp you can see it updating in the primary comp without having to switch comp views? If this feature already exists (which I can't find) I shall be hugely embarrased and apologise profusley.

Cheers,

Simon

For the music related, I'd like an option to see and snap to TEMPO (in BPM, bars, notes, etc) along the top bar

(even if the actual rendering must round to the nearest frame.)

Perhaps even native import of MIDI data / timing

Also, the "sound scrub"? (or whatever it's called) segments should be longer if you want, so you can better understand what

words or music are occuring (or maybe there's a way to do that allready?)

I have worked with AE for the last decade or so - and I have never stopped marvelling at the ongoing improvements and power of After Effects - but equally I am constantly dumfounded that interfaces such as 'Curves' - 'Hue and Saturation' - 'Levels' (and so on) continue to remain at a pre-defined and fixed size As screen resolutions grow my daily use of the Curves interface is now reduced to attempting to colour correct a client's work using an increasingly (comparatively) miniscule box. On my new 27" iMac (which boasts a resolution of 2560x1440) - this postage stamp sized interface is becoming increasingly preposterous as a professional colour correction tool.

The 'Curves' interface is 171 x 171 pixels. This is less than one screen/interface pixel per level in an 8 bit (256 levels) channel (!) Users are being asked to fine tune our work using a low resolution tool that offers an arbitrarily crude and imprecise control. Ultimately this renders the tool somewhat less that ideal, and certainly not what I would consider professional (for want of a better phrase). My request would be to offer either the option to enlarge the interface via a button (x2 x4 x8 etc etc) - or, preferably, allow the user to grab the lower right hand corner of the interface and scale it out to a usable size of his or her choice.

These tools are looking increasingly out of place in a modern, professional application like AE - to stick with the example of the Curves tool - this would really not be at all out of place on a piece of software from 1994.

In addition a better application (more control) of the splines would be very welcome - and furthermore I have often wished simple additional controls like a 'mix' or 'blend' slider was also included - sliding the 'mix' value towards 0 (zero) would morph the curve back towards the flat 45° default line - sliding the mix' value towards 100 would morph the line back towards your custom curve - but to be honest just being able to use the interface without a telescope would be great for day to day tasks.

example of a bigger Curves window:

(big image - you will need to scroll to the right to see the larger Curves window)

This request for a usable / customizable interface size is equally applicable to any and all interfaces where precision adjustments are desirable - such as 'Levels' - 'Hue & Saturation' (and so on).

All the best. Lee.