I'm really fond of Adobe Products. But It is kinda disappointing when It comes to comparing it with other VFX and Compositing Applications. Even free versions of applications like Black Magic DaVinci Resolve or Fusion have all the features that an artist would desire and they're gaining popularity by leaps and bounds.

So, there's dire need of some serious upgrade that actually deserves the title "Major Update".

We want a real 3D Workspace as well as the capability to choose between layer-based or node-based workflow.

It will surely give Adobe an edge over its competitors making it the first choice of all types of artists as it's also tightly integrated with its other Apps i.e., Photoshop and Illustrator.

Adobe must seriously implement such features that would not only make us proud being a part of Adobe Family but also realize that it is worth the subscription model.

Looking forward to experiencing these

If I place a half-res clip in the comp and scale it up to 200% to fit the comp, for some reason this makes the border of the entire comp slightly transparent. I can see just a little bit of the grid through the edge, and this also appears in the alpha channel if I view that.

This only happens when the footage size exactly matches the comp. If I modify the scale, it goes away.

Importantly, this still happens when other layers are below, so it's not just a matter of not filling the frame, the layer is somehow also breaking the alpha for the entire comp. In my screenshot, I have a solid behind the layer. When the layer is on, I get the transparent border. When I turn the scaled layer off, the border goes away.

Hi guys,

I'm getting really frustrated about the fact that my After Effects seems to behave in a different way than it should do, when it comes to creating a solid object, using the beam effect on it and then trying to track the Starting Point on a null object. When you watch it on the online tutorial, the top of the line goes right on the anchor point of the null object. Unfortunately, mine goes randomly on the screen, but nowhere nearly the anchor point of the null object.

If this doesn't make any sense to you, I've uploaded a video on youtube to showcase my problem. In the video I've also included the online tutorial, just to show how it can work for other people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDI7FWSOi4&feature=youtu.be

Furthermore, even when the line does go on the anchor point of the null object, there's still something that doesn't work as it should do. Let's say I wanted to have a target tracking a certain part of the subject's body. That works just fine. Then I want the null object to track the same tracking point. When that happens the lines which are following the null object go all over the screen again. Why is that ?

I need help with this...

I have a layer over my video to do drawing frame by frame. The drawing is basically little firework-like animations that go over my waveform that contains firework sounds. It's important that I sync it up correctly so I need to switch back to my composition and play it back in real time. But when I switch back to my composition, I believe it shows an older cached preview.

Worse yet, is if I delete a brush stroke from my drawing layer, it doesn't SHOW that it's deleted, in fact it just stays there in the layer preview until I save and restart After Effects.

Restarting After Effects does not solve the first problem.

This is how parenting works when you copy/paste a new set of layers. It creates parents relative to the new layers you've pasted. That is smart, now if only effects worked the same way! For some reason the default behavior on plugins is to revert the layer inputs on effects like “set matte” or “create nulls from paths” to the source layer that the effect is applied to after pasting.

I frequently use both of the aforementioned effects to make templates, and I'm constantly copy/pasting sets of template layers into new comps, but every time I do I have to manually reconnect the layer inputs which becomes and enormous pain when doing it 20+ times.

I attached a reference of what I'm talking about in case it wasn't clear.

The original comp is showing a set matte effect that is on layers 4-6. It's taking the matte from layer 7, "box1 matte4". When I copy/paste these layers into a new comp in the second image, you'll see that the set matte effect has been reset to layer 4, "feet" which is the same layer the effect is on. Why can't it remember the relative layer references?? It remembered all of the parenting, but it can't remember these for some reason.

PLEASE figure out a way to implement this. It's a huge time suck and I'm not sure why anyone would want it to function as it does currently.