AFTER EFFECTS WISHLIST

Creation of infinite labels, mask point information output to be useful in some animation stuff... thanks!!

I would like the maximum mask expansion size to be increased from +/-1000, to +/-4000 or more. Animating mask expansions can be used for things like ink bleeds in combination with the Roughen Edges effect, which requires you to be able to have the expanded mask cover the whole frame, even if it starts out at one edge.  Limiting it to +/-1000 pixels doesn't allow you to encompass the whole frame when working with 4K video, if the original mask shape is off to one edge.

A workaround would be to just animate the mask path, but it's easier to just set two keyframes for the expansion, instead of manually scaling up the mask.

• Right-To-Left writing support.
• Better ways to zoom with Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad (pinch-to-zoom?)

Wheel zoom directing to mouse cursor. I know about the alt-zoom, but I want the option to set it to default in the prefs.

Two features that would save me minutes a day, hours a month, and days a year in time.

Background Auto-save [it currently does auto-save in the foreground]

Display ALL offline fonts. Limiting the list of offline fonts to three is a nuisance, If i get a hand me down project I want to know all the fonts I need to activate, not just the first three.

PLEASE ADOBE!!

I've got one that doesn't seem to get mentioned.

Multiple projects in tabs... as per Photoshop / illustrator etc.

The ability to open up more than one project at a time and just copy and paste comps / layers effects without having to import a whole AEP into a project.  

I do first person shooter, video based, video games.  So that means lots of really long POV shots.  I would like to use the Warp Stabilizer tool on these shots but they are unmanageably long shots and sometimes have entire crowds of people running through them.  So there are obvious sections where I can NOT use the stabilizer successfully.  I get that.  So I end up breaking my shot up and using the Stabilizer on just sections of the shot.  PROBLEM: How do I TRANSITION from a section that IS stabilized in or out from a section that is NOT stabilized?  OPTION ONE: I keyframe scale, rotation and position in order to get as close as possible to minimize the jump.  The drawback of this approach is that I still can't make up for the subspace warp effect and will therefore have a jump in my image no matter what (yes, I could try to use the mesh warp).  Very time consuming and not very satisfactory.  OPTION TWO:  I stair step my stabilized layer for each frame and change the stabilization value on each frame so that I create a frame by frame ramp of the stabilization effect.

SOLUTION SUGGESTION:  Can we get a value added to the Warp Stabilizer that allows us to keyframe the effect in and out?  Can that allow us to confine the effect to only a section of a clip so that the entire clip does not get processed?  That would be very useful and problem solving for me.  i.e.- I only want to use the Warp Stabilizer on a single portion of clip or on several individual portions of a clip.

P.S.- Come to think of it, this could be really helpful on the 3D Camera Tracker as well... only having to track a portion and solve the camera for a portion of a clip allows me to target the actual section where I'm planning on putting in the effect.  It also would save me the computation time for sections I won't even be needing tracked or stabilized or whatever.

Lately I was thinking about what bothers me the most while working in AFX and came to the conclusion that I really don't like to alter settings in the timeline. IF you have just a few layers it is ok but as soon as the layer count goes up I find myself constantly shifting my layout around which stops me from being creative and rises my frustration level– also all the shortcuts to maximize the panel or unveiling specific attributes doesn't help to much when you want to change roatation sacle and opavity for example on 20layers at once. I would rather have a special panel next to the timeline, showing all the attributes(scale, opacity,... essentially making the transform effect a panel which controls the layers) as soon as a layer is selected. Much like the attribute panel in C4d which is also really helpful when changing the same settings for more than 1 layer. The timeline could then be used to just to shift keyframes around and act more like a dope sheet.

Of course this would change the way we work with AFX a lot but I think for the better. I have also filed a feature request for it (with a lot more smaller suggestions) but thought that I also post it here as some of you might want think about it and also file a feature request report for it so that the AFX team sees that it is something to think through and maybe integrate.

As I started using C4d more and more I noticed a lot of those small but effective workflow tools which I think AFX users could also benefit from but this one was the most important one I guess.

Some things I would like:

1! . I would love to see after effects using multiple cores while you are working not just in rendering. An optimized After Effects for newer machines would be greatly appreciated by many. I think After effects has a ton of great features all ready, IMO its time to put effort into optimization and the use of GPU and all CPU cores of modern systems all across the program.

2. Folders and other things that can make it easier to have an overview of complex large comps. I mean Folders/groups in the comp view and better layer color system.

I would love some color correction tools that operate in a similar fashion to the UI in Lightroom - sliders and tool panels. I dislike color wheels. Thanks!