AFTER EFFECTS WISHLIST

Report · Aug 31, 2009

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 .

Report · May 04, 2017

This is not how AE functions. You locate one missing item and AE is super smart about finding other missing items. Not sure why yours is misbehaving, it's been smart about finding missing footage for nearly 20 years. Are you changing file names or renaming PSD/AI layers? That's the only time it'll get hung up.

Report · May 04, 2017

it could be the notorious jpeg bug that was introduced in 14.0 and 14.1 and was only recently fixed in 14.2.

this is one thread about it. here's another

Report · Apr 10, 2017

This may have been listed here already, but what about a way to extend all nested comps to match the length of the parent comp? There's already a 3rd party script for this (rd: Comp Setter - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com ) but having it built in would be nice. There could be a checkbox to have all nested comps extended/trimmed in the Composition Settings dialogue box. Maybe any layer in the nested comps that goes until the end of that comp's timeline would automatically be extended as well (perhaps via a secondary checkbox)?

Report · Nov 26, 2019

1/ Allow camera Point Of Interest to have Seperate Dimensions (PLEASE!!!)

2/ Be able to lock Focus Distance to Point Of Interest
3/ To be able to lock Focal Distance and/or Point of Interest to an object or null

Report · Mar 31, 2020

A simple wish, difficult to implement for commercial reasons - Allow multiple clips in the same layer. Period. AE will replace PP. Allow PP style transitions in AE. You won't need PP any more. Sound's like an atomic bomb?

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Report · Sep 30, 2022

a new after effects. made from the ground up to support modern hardware, not 1999 single core no gpu computers, but actual workstations with dedicated graphics hardware, either on or off-die. also maybe real multithreading and not just using different threads to render different frames separately. also making the built in effects 16 or 32 bit. also having a proper 3D view and not 2.5D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVNCgmAsI8c&t=1166s

Report · Sep 18, 2023

I wish multiple clips could be place on the same layer. As of now you can only place 1 clip on a single layer. I wish it was like PPro.

Thank God, if we wish to loop a clip we can loop it in its property. However if I wanted a set of 2 clips of one kind and 1 other another kind loop several times. My comp woyuld grow vertically as well as horizontally. Severe real estate wastage and bad ergonomics.

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