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Andrew Yoole
Andrew Yoole
Inspiring
Aug 31, 2009 3:39 PM UTC
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AFTER EFFECTS WISHLIST

What features would you like to see implemented in After Effects? New ideas for plugins? Interface changes? Post 'em here!

Let's keep bug identification to individual posts, as these will probably be addressed more readily. Let's use this thread for specific ideas about ways that AE can be improved and expanded.

These Forums are for users, not Adobe employees, so don't forget to also fill in an Adobe feature request form.

To view the Wish List posts prior to September 2009, look here.

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      Navarro Parker
      Inspiring
      Sep 15, 2009 10:43 PM UTC

      It would be great if AE could interpret images with more than one alpha channel. For instance, Cinema 4D places the depth map and object buffers in the alpha channels. However, AE only reads the first alpha channel and interprets that as transparency.  It would be great if AE could read the other alphas and let me decide which one (if any) is transparency.  Or if I just wanted to import Alpha #5 from an image, it would let me.

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        yenaphe
        yenaphe
        Inspiring
        Sep 15, 2009 11:00 PM UTC

        As a workaround, you can export your animation and passes as an EXR sequence, and import it inside AE and then use the EXtractoR plugin to select the pass you wanna use.

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          Navarro Parker
          Inspiring
          Sep 16, 2009 6:25 PM UTC

          Thanks for the info. C4D doesn't support layered EXRs yet.  So layered TIFF and PSD are the main way to get 32-bpc HDR multi-layer multipass images out of Cinema.

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          Anonymous
          Sep 4, 2009 3:38 PM UTC

          1) Swatches

          2) Scale tool to work like AI, ID and PSHOP

          3) Ability to Import/Export Precomps (or share from a database of linked precomps) rather than a collect and import.

          4) All Layer Styles to be moved to the effects pallette. I find it laborious to access layer styles in AE

          Thanks for asking!

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            tbsaad
            Participant
            Sep 2, 2009 2:25 PM UTC

            Hi!

            I was wondering when we'll have the new 3D camera preset - the one that people use those glasses to "see things getting close".

            I believe that if we work on our compositions always  in a 3D space using that camera, it can output the image sequence already set for these technology.

            Thanks

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            yenaphe
            yenaphe
            Inspiring
            Sep 2, 2009 2:31 PM UTC

            What you are talking about is called stereoscopy, and cannot be acheived that simply. But know that it's already possible to do it in AE,and that the process have been simplified by a free script available on the web, or a pay plugin available on the toolfarm online store.

            It's not  new "3D preset" or 3D camera, the stereoscopy involves the use of 3 cameras in the same 3D world, one of each eye, linked together.

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            tbsaad
            Participant
            Sep 2, 2009 2:35 PM UTC

            Hi!

            Thanks for the fast response.

            Hey, that's the name! Stereoscopy! I'm from Brazil and wasn't sure how it was called in english.

            Can you provide the names of those tools (the free script and the plugin)? I'd like to try that feature ASAP.

            Thanks again!

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