Is it possible to add more margin to this line of buttons so that when they are activated they do not overwhelm with the blue line of focus? Thanks team

The UI sizing is much too small for a 4k monitor. Not giving an option for adjustment in this version is an embarrassment.

Just checked out latest beta...how on earth has your team not managed to, at the very freaking least, made some adjustments to the Color Themes?!?!? I now have to work using your mid-range "Dark" mode because it's the only one with reasonably subtle contrast. Normally I would have chosen "Darkest" but the ridiculously contrasting buttons and pulldown menus make this pallette absolutely unusable, and even worse if you click "Accessible Color Contrast". Seriously, get your team together and at the very least make one more freaking option in there!!!!!! Call it "Darkest Sans Insane Contrast" or something, ANYTHING.

Why does pressing Enter now select the latest clicked button in a dialog window, instead of validating the choice?

For example you're in the color picker, press the eyedropper and pick a color, in the past you'd hit enter to close the color picker. Now it selects the eyedropper again because it's highlighted, so you have to waste your time clicking OK with your mouse. 

With the growing pains of working around deficiencies within After Effects and Premiere Pro, I think the last thing on your guys' list is getting rid of the ability to customize the color for our UI. 

As a creator who spends MANY hours in both programs, the least you guys could do is give us our own choice to pick which color the interface has... 

Please give us enable_theme_colorizing back, please!!!!!

The highlight effect on layers is completely off. Please change it.
I select the "end" parameter now. It looks the same with the layers below that but they are not selected. So weird man. Every layer looks like it was selected.

Can't change the highlight color now. Can you bring this feature back? In previous versions, Cmd + F12 and enabling "Enable_Theme_Colorizing" lets user change highlight color in "Settings - Appearance"

Overall I think the spectrum overhaul is a step in the right direction. Peformance is improved and the UI looks a bit more consistent overall. There is however a lot of room for improvment 

Especially in terms of Windows UI performance but still a ways off from a fully responsive app. Once you hit about 50 keyframes, things still stutter pretty badly behind the cursor which is jarring. Not nearly as bad as it used to be but still a lot of room for improvment. I get we are touting this as a 4X improvement but a 4X improvement over 1FPS is only 4FPS. 

There are some nitpicks that were pointed out in the beta but were not addressed:

hese toggles no longer being blue is a bit harder understand when things are turned off or on:

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Its not like blue highlights have been depreciated fully in spectrum ui, the tool bar still uses them:

Column dividers in the timeline panel are nearly impossible to see on darkest, unless you have high contrast turned on. I almost never know where to grab I just have to wait for my mouse to switch icons. 

Properties panel still basically useless for shape layer functions 

- cant add modifers from properties panel or access their properties

-cant add dash, taper, or wave stroke options

-very incomplete. 

Still too many holes in parts of the App that need to be plugged with scripts on every install.

Day to day issues I have to work around in AE: 

-no way to change default easing for easy ease [33% is a pretty bad default]

-no easing panel of any type, [always have to install Motion script]

-no way to dynamically stagger keyframes or layers without using the tedious sequence layers dialog [need script] 

-figma integration lacking [rip figma aquisition, AEUX is buggy at best]

-no native or viable variable font support [Ai and Photoshop have had for years]

-graidents in illustrator can't be converted to shape layers 

-shape layers not rendered on GPU afaik

-basic 3d not rendered on GPU, causes comps to be rendered single threaded many times

-have to use a script to scale comps to different frame sizes

-no color swatches or dyanmic color without a lot of expression overhead 

-no grouping of layers in timeline 

-no grouping of keyframes except by color 

-2GB frame buffer size is getting pretty limiting when clients are now asking for 8K deliverables 

-calvary has lapped AE when it comes to dynamic design 

This is why many users get upset when 2012 level 3D gets added or a fresh coat of paint, (honestly Element3D is still better) or a new whizbang Ai feature gets added when there ia a huge laundry list of basic functionality missing from the animation and design experience. I don't want to have to own and maintain 30 scripts just to get AE to a functional place in 2024. I want a 2.5 engine that doesn't stutter or render like a potato. We are trying to do our job but we have to mod the app 100 times just to get going. 

I love AE, but the more time I spend in it the more aware I become of its many flaws.

I came here to see someone else's comment, but I guess they deleted it?
in any case, I have to agree, and I guess I'll reiterate what they said.
The adobe devs have lost the plot.

the UI is a dark grey for a reason- it eases eyestrain on long days and makes colors clearer, and breaking from what the other guy said, making it darker increases contrast past a certain point and increases eyestrain, too. It was in a  perfect spot of medium contrast, dark, but not overly contrasted UI.
sure, white and black is good for accessibility, but there are reasons it was the way it was, and the devs don't seem to understand that what we have is the result of decades of tiny changes that everyone agreed on, not some grand idea to differentiate version 25 because nothing else has changed.

and that's my take on it. he mentioned the protestant reformation and the 95 complaints, and that's basically how I feel, and I imagine most people who use After Effects feel for an extended time feel, too.
we want it to be faster, not slower
we want more export types, but we've actually lost many over the years.
we don't need to eat 100GB of RAM just for a 2 second preview 
After effects can't even play a RAM preview at 24FPS, so what's even the point of it?

why don't we have 32 bit effects?

why do so few effects use GPU? this is a graohics software, get with the program!

there are so many reasonable requests that Adobe just seems totally incapable of, and at this point, I can't consider it an accident. they're trying to end After Effects, and I honestly would support that. it's time to stop.