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.

AE 2022 is unstable and have bugs. It keeps cashing and sometimes just won't opening, I have to force quit and restart.
I also got this error message when opening a specific project :
"Internal verification error, sorry! [no current context]".
I tried to reinstall AE, did not work, then I reinstalled CC desktop and all my app, and I still got this message.
I was hoping today's update was going to fix that, but no, I still got the error.
I had to downgrade AE to the previous version and now everything's fine. I miss the good old times when we bought Adobe on CDs, installed it and it worked. Now I feel like I'm always on a beta version of the Software, experiencing bugs like I'm a tester and not a customer. Plus, I didn't find a way to report a bug. What I'm writing here is not a "feedback", it's a complain.

Hi, I work in a big team, and several guys were having issues with the rendering of Thai characters in After Effects.

The main issue we encountered was some vowels not being rendered in the correct position or completely missing altogether.
We have been using the "south asian and middle eastern" text engine, but with different results. If we create the file from scratch using that engine, we barely encounter the issue, but usually we receive files created by our clients, so we find ourselves constantly trying to solve this, and having different results in various computers with the same AEP version.

We've tried resetting the paragraph settings or copying the text from a program that could fix the issue (like using Illustrator or Photoshop for the composer) and then pasting them into After effects, but the results were not consistent.

Is there something we might be missing?
Maybe a work around that we are not aware of.

We work with many different languages so we need to fix these kind of issues.

Thanks in advance

On more than a few occasions I've needed to check and see if my workspaces have been contributing to issues that arise in the public beta. The official way to reset all my prefs is to launch the app while holding

• Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows)
• Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS)

This works but it completely obliterates all my prefs custom workspaces forever. I currently go to that folder and make a copy before doing this but that eats up time and is a pain. I'd like to have a temporary option to load the app with default preferences (perhaps by holding z with the above shortcuts) that restores my previous prefs when I launch the app as normal.

When I use AME to render h264 video (Preset - Match source - High bitrate), some layers appear and disappear at wrong time on the result video, though it's composed correctly in After Effects - I've checked it frame by frame.

I have white background on video, objects appear few milliseconds later than they should, so video "blinks" on some transitions.

I attached video. List of issues:
5 sec - white screen, layers appear too late (person and walls)
6 sec - same scene, layer with a person disappear too early
6 sec - next transition "blinks" with white screen again
8 sec - the same white screen
8 sec - person disappears too fast, thought he should leave the frame by himself
10 sec - two layers with a person at the same time
10,12,14 sec - layer with a person disappears too fast

Overall 9 issues in 22 seconds length video.

Latest versions of AE and ME were installed and then reinstalled again
AE - v22.01
ME - v22.0
OS - macOS Big Sur v11.4

Add a checkbox or something to allow users to opt-out of the installation of Cinema 4D R21 when installing After Effects.

I already have a valid perpetual license for Cinema 4D R19 Studio. R21 is pointless as it only allows me to use a trial license or purchase a license. The application is useless for those who already own a commercial license.

To make matters worse, I must uninstall it every time there is an update for After Effects. Quite frankly, I consider it bloatware. It useless and it wastes space on my hard drive.

I understand that there are people who don’t already own C4D who would find this useful which I why I think the ability to opt-out would make both sides happy.