Feature Request: Add support for third‑party Hydra render delegates in After Effects

Question

Hi develop team,

It looks like the new Advance 3D renderer is built on USD/Hydra. Could we create a custom Hydra render delegate (an HdRendererPlugin) and have After Effects discover and use it via AE’s USD integration? If so, this could be a genuine game‑changer for compositing workflows and pipeline flexibility.

If realized, this approach could enable Redshift or Cycles to run natively within After Effects; please consider including this as a roadmap item.

Shebbe · Answer

That would be nice. The closed Advanced renderer doesn't even allow working in scene linear. It has internal display rendering / tone mapping rather than letting colormanagement dictate this making it completely useless for grading and hybrid cg/real footage workflows.

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