Preserve Current UI Layout When Opening Project

Hi all,

This feature is now available in After Effects (Beta). For more details, check out the the Beta forums: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-beta-discussions/feature-focus-preference-to-maintain-your-workspace-when-opening-projects/td-p/15111071 

Cheers,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

Hiya!

I'd like to request an option to keep my existing workspace when opening a project. This is a quality of life / UX request.

I'd suggest a checkbox in Preferences for 'Keep current workspace when loading a project' (or whatever name is clearest).

Use case is opening other animators' files causes a change to their workspace, and as my standard workspace has quite a lot going on it's a small delay switching back, but adds up through the day.

Nice one!

Would be nice to open another deigner's file but retain my workspace. Why carry the workspace from someone else?? Makes no sense. Please fix!

Hello!

I would really love if we could have a couple of extra settings please.

I have a widescreen monitor which means i have a very bespoke layout to maximise the real estate of my screen.  Most of the files i pick up from other artists are just from a standard 16:9 layout.  Some files that I pick up just hang when I then switch them into my custom workspace, and i'm wasting countless minutes/hours a week doing this, as sometimes it actually takes AFX longer to switch the layout, than it does to open the file. 

Outside of my own setup, I'm sure every artist loves to customise things to their specific AFX needs, regardless of screen size.

So, I propose that there is an option via a dialogue box when opening AFX files, to ignore the previous users layout, when opening the file.  Obviously, keep things like the same open compositions, and focussed composition, along with things like render queue history, are a must.

There should also be an additional setting, that we can set in preferences to always ignore previous user's workspace permanantly.  Removing the dialogue prompt.  Additionally, it would make sense to have a check box on that prompt to 'don't remind me about this again'.

Maybe taking this a little futher, I for example, never have things like columns for layer time in/out, stretch etc enabled, I like to see as much as my timeline as possible.  So given my initial suggestion, I would expect any columns that the previous artist to have open, would dissapear.  Now, this might in some cases, be wise to have these appear.  Let's say a random layer has been stretch to something like 150%.  It could be that the original artist can force an override of this column.  This could then present another option on the open dialogue, something like, 'accept UI overrides' or something similar.

Thanks!