AFTER EFFECTS WISHLIST

Would be awesome to have something similar to Nuke's backdrop node - so groups of keyframes within a layer could be labelled and whatnot.

How about finally giving us copy paste in the right click context menu. AE must be the only Adobe program without this basic functionality. I'm pretty sure copy paste is a more common task than 99% of the stuff available in the context menu at the moment. This has been asked several times and it can't take many lines of code to implement. I don't feel like we are asking for much here but it would definitely save some frustration.

Some actual video card support? I mean come on! Only 10 or so cards supported in CS6?

Hi I am currently using AECS5.5 for my animatic and animation and find it so useful for animating backgrounds and love using the software. However it is not as good at animating characters and is quite time consuming. I would like to see Adobe add some good animation tools like bone rigging tools and more animation tools in the future. Much like Toon Boom and Anime Studio Pro. I also think the expressions could be made more simple as I do not understand it at all or how to use the camera, so perhaps a simpler way of using it which is more intuitive.

When collecting files, I'd like to have an option to collect selective files.(same with premiere)  I often work with a lot of the same large video files and don't need to back them up with every single project.  I'm typing this as AE is collecting 101GB of footage, 90+GB will be deleted when I'm finished...

1.: Change the value of multiply identical keyframes with a slider control of an "Controller Layer"

     Let`s say you have Layer A and Layer B. Both of them with two identical opacity-keyframes (key1 and key2). The only difference is: They are delayed in time.

     With a seperate layer you could now change the value of key2 of ALL layers (no matter you have just 2 or 200 layers), maybe with a slider

2.: Link keyframes of different layers to a "keyframe group". Select the group and all of those keyframes are selected, too.

Or ist this already implemented?

• Copy Keyframes with STRG+Drag`n`Drop to another frame

This has been submitted through the standard request form, but just to throw it out there again:

• title = "Smart Key Copy/Paste"
• functionality =  If the user has multiple keyframes selected across multiple layers and chooses to "copy" them, then moves the CTI to a different point in time and chooses to "paste" them, the keyframes will be copied and pasted, not the layers themselves.
• reason = this would speed up workflow considerably.

I'd love an option appended to all AE filters to constrain the application of the filter with a mask.  That is, to apply the filter only to the area within a user-selectable (and featherable) mask.

In its simplest application, it would simply be a dropdown menu and an invert checkbox.  As a bonus, it could have an additional option:  "Link Mask Density to:" and then a dropdown menu to select one of the filter's parameters.

Extraordinarly helpful applications of this feature would be things like roughen edges for compositing (Link mask density to Edge Sharpness).

4.: Inner/Outer Masksplines for a better feather-control (Start/End of the feathering)