After Effects finally needs a competitive 3D Realtime Engine (GPU) for 3D compositing and virtual workflows of the future. The Link to Cinema is too slow, complicated and unstable for simple 3D compositing tasks. So it needs something like "3D Elements" on steroids and native in AE.

Dranging some 3D Assets into AE, add some effects, tweak and light them, is a must have in 2022. Compositing, Motion Graphics and VFX are not only 2D/2,5D! - they happen now also in 3D and Realtime!

What this new real time 3D Engine needs:
- 3D Geometry Support (import/export)
- PBR Shaders
- Link to Substance Painter/Designer
- Primitives' and very basics modeling (box, spline) and deformer Tools
- Raytrace Lighting, Reflections (GPU)
- Support of 3D Volumes and Point Clouds (vdb.)
- Camera Mapping Tools
- Advanced Camera Tracker (more manuell control, constrains, import/export)
- Smart 3D Particles with Physics (node editor)
- VR HMD Support

thx

PS: I wirte this since years. please don't delete my requests again.

How about a new type of Repeater for shape groups that looks pretty much the same as the existing one, except that values in it's Transform properties are not applied cumulatively, but rather have their expressions evaluated individually for every copy of the shape?

So if I add a random expression to the repeater's Position property, I get a bunch of randomly positioned copies. Ideally we'd get expression access to something like repeaterIndex (like textIndex in text layer expression selectors) but even without any new syntax it would be amazing. I can already imagine making a growing vine which automatically sprouts leaves as it gets longer.

Might save someone jumping over to Cavalry, and could provide some new possibilities to MGRTs too.

it's in the title. it's mind boggling to me that the program still works, let alone can be in some ways considered stable, but let's face it:

multi-threading use is spotty at best
GPU usage remains under 10-30% on most GPU's
many plugins aren't even 16 or 32 bit
Export templates are no longer standard, can't export in several standards
almost entirely uses RAM for viewport acceleration instead of optimization
by default now uses 429 plugins instead of optimized, built in features
mixed support for different GPU architectures (mostly older ones)
CPU/RAM/GPU usage are all far higher per calculation than the competition.
almost 0 3D integration
unstable, inaccurate tracking
almost no way to work interchangeably with 3D software
only dying legacy support for modern cross-platform standards
workflow discrepancies between a number of standard plugins
3D is essentially unusable, and always has been.
RAM usage is extreme, to the point of reaching several operating system limits easily.
The UI, as nice as it used to be, is dated and unintuitive by modern standards.

and so on. It's been 30 years, and this Ship of Theseus has been taken apart and put together so many times the boards are worn and the lumber different, and the ship is taking on water (and leaking memory in no hypothetical manner). it's just not holding up. It used to be photoshop, but for video. Now it's... frankenshop, for VFX. After effects just hasn't caught up with the times.

I've been using AE since CS2, I've been here since the golden days, but even then, there were weird things that didn't make sense, plugins that didn't follow, or contradicted normal keymaps, things like that. I understand- it's hard to maintain something so big. That it's old is no issue to me. That its age is limiting its usefulness is.

sometimes, it's just time to drop the project and try again from scratch with what we've learned. If anyone knows that, it's a VFX editor.

When writing out an OpenEXR file (either from Ps, Ae, or Me), the required flag is not set in the OpenEXR file that the file is coded as "SMTPE ACES 2065-1". As a result, it is then loaded just as a sRGB based OpenEXR. Perhaps even compressed, also not along the ACES guidelines for this.

That flag is a tiny piece of information in the file, and if provided, I hope it will be also read. So, yes, I have practically two requests.
This information could be taken from the Project Settings in Ae.

I know that many people are just fine with ACEScg or ACEScc[t], but there is no flag required as per ACES documentation, and the use here of the AP1 (ACES Primaries 1) might limit the quality even more.

With hundreds of files in any production, it might be easy to miss it one time. That cannot be very pleasant for the comp artist.

1. Create a sequence in a project ("source")
2. Create another sequence ("wrapper") which imports the first, then time warp it to be a bit slower. Leave the Frame Blending at "none"
3. Copy/Paste the wrapper, then in only one of the wrappers, change the source Frame Blending to "Pixel Motion".

Expected: AE preview frames, and renders via Premiere Pro import, both respect each sequence's respective frame blending options.

Actual: Only one of them is actually respected for both sequences. Which one is used is pretty arbitrary, depends on what AE is using to render the frames. Once the user fiddles with things enough for AE to discard preview frames, it might switch to the other blending method instead.

This problem affects not just previews in AE or previews in Premiere Pro, but final renders created from Premiere Pro as well. As a work-around I will try to duplicate the AE project and only have one blending mode in each of them, hopefully it will not try to "share" the previews/renders since they will be unrelated projects.

After Effects could dominate the market if the developers simply did this:

Rewrite the software so that you have the option to work with nodes in a dedicated window AND still use layers as default (Blender does this, so I know it's possible).
The key to making After Effects the industry dominating software it ought to be, is by keeping the easy to use and super clean UI that it already has, while optimizing its functionality.
For instance, if After Effects had it's standard "layer" timeline, but also gave users the ability to work 'under the hood' for more complex tasks, it would be a game changer!

As it is now, if I have 20 layers that I want to apply a mask to, I have to make 20 copies of that layer (or do some weird precomping setup).
But if AE had nodes, the workflow would be amazing.

Additionally, we already have multiple functions for the 'pick whip,' but if it could also be utilized to connect layers (without jumping into the node window) that would be a major convenience.
For instance, if I held down Shift and Alt, then the pick whip could connect a layer to another layer's properties, like masks or color, instead of just its transform value, like parenting layers work currently.

Just look at the way Blender functions and model AE from that model.

After Effects could be the perfect solution for hobbyists and pros alike with just a rewrite and some stability tweaks.

Also, as a random note: if you changed your subscription model to à la carte, our minds would be blown.
How this could work: for 2 programs of our choosing, $20/per month (or whatever).
For 4 programs of our choosing, $50.
For 5 or more, $84.99.

And as a final note, if anyone is still reading this far -- if there was some way that Adobe could either acquire existing plugins to make them part of the software itself, or write its own code independently to accomplish the same ends, that would be fantastic.

It just seems that AE has been riding on its old tricks for too long, and is reliant on plugins to do more of the heavy lifting -- for compositing, Red Giant has Supercomp. The question then, is why can't that either be licensed and incorporated into the software itself, or just rewrite the code to allow native compositing in AE to function more intuitively (better glows, a new version of 3d Camera Tracker that allows the user more control, clean track points and troubleshoot instead of just hitting a button and hoping for the best).

After Effects is the software I grew up on, its the software that still makes the most sense and has the easiest to use interface. But it needs to grow up and become the effects powerhouse that it always should have been.
DaVinci Resolve is fine enough but its workflow is overcomplicated and Nuke is way out of most people's price range.

If AE could evolve, it could absolutely dominate.
Please consider any of these changes.

Thank you.

The Line Spacing option from the text tool seems to be broken.It feels a bit like some value is added internally: e.g. spacing value "0" no longer results in several lines of text being on the very same baseline, but instead, it gives me something that I would expect from [value line spacing] = [value font size].

Setting line spacing to "auto" leads to too much spacing, too, especially when using smaller font sizes.

I first noticed this bug earlier this week, maybe last week. Should be around the time of the latest AE update, so I think this specifically affects 22.2.1

added some screenshots of settings panel + corresponding results.

When using Team Projects, there is currently no way to revert or discard your own changes. If a user makes some mistakes, changes their mind, or doesn't want to "commit" unnecessary changes to the cloud, they don't have an option to reset to the last shared version. This makes the feature effectively unusable, the user would have to push their changes regardless of whether they are desired or not. What if the changes are project-breaking? There is also no way to view Team Project Versions or Autosaves for After Effects Team Projects, even though this feature exists for Premiere.

Deleting the "Team Projects Cache" and "Team Projects Local Hub" folders under %APPDATA%\Roaming\Adobe\Common seems to have no effect. After re-opening the Team Project, all the users local changes are still present and prompted to be shared to the cloud.

Similar to this issue logged for Premiere Pro:
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/36448078-team-project-revert-changes