speed up workflow - inspire, make it easier, intuitive (dont interrupt and dont add more buttons)
This Post is to highlight 1 big request. Aftereffects became a bottleneck in creation. The user request on trackmatte reusability was fantastic, implementation a terrible compromise.
Heres the idea: Speed up the workflow, inspire, make it easier, intuitive (dont interrupt and dont add more buttons).
1 - when opening load footage in background, so we can do stuff such as exporting a camera, checking comp res, etc... autosave in background, so we can do stuff ... render in background, so we continue doing stuff
2 - bring project manager to 2023. make it as we like it, thumbnail, list, details view, order by date, location without adding columns, but a dropdown, you get the idea. remove useless preview on top
3 - declutter UI everywhere especially in timeling. Remove all these buttes next to the footage and solve it with nodes, so we can do stuff. nodes, cool stuff, check it out.
4 - let more than one footage sit on a line (like Premiere), which is possible if nodebased, so we can add more stuff, which means we can create more stuff.
5 - check how Blender or other 3D software speeds up navigation, tangenthandling, keyframing, compy pasting or scaling in grapheditor, everywhere it is lightning fast, simple and convenient. That said it needs a propper grapheditor, its not 2010.
6 - shortcuts on UI window. the shortcuts should be used multiple ways depending on where the mouse is. example for Aftereffects:
press S in timeline scale unfolds on layer
press S in viewport the footage scales with mousemove
press S in grapheditor you scale tangens, multiple keys.
same for move, rotate, etc..
I am an animator and compositor. I am using all adobe products, Aftereffects extensivly (now I do almost everything in Blender what I did before in Aftereffects). I use Maya, Cinema4D, Blender, Unity 3Dcoat, Unreal, Zbrush, TvPaint,... list goes on, so I work my way through many UIs and workflows.
no program is perfect, but Aftereffects needs help...
