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.

I am 90 and taking a course in AE for personal enrichment at my local Junior college. The current workspace for AE is all black and the icons at the top are o small - that combination makes it difficult to use. I saw a tutorial on Vimeo in which the workspace was a light grey in color and the icons where reasonably large to be able to use. So I suggest that Adobe make this a new standard for new users and beginners to learn AE more easily. As a former technical writer/editor I wrote highly detailed instructions manuals for sophisticated electronic equipment so I see a need for Adobe to have a sort of by-the numbers manual to make their products easier to use and more productive. And despite a couple of attempts to find such a manual I did not find one. If I find the tutorial I saw as a video as used by someone that had the tutorial on Vimeo I will be glad to attach it to another "suggestion" webpage.

AE Version: 17.6.0 (Build 46)

Reproduction Steps:
- Create a New Project
- Add a new layer
- Animate the position property with keyframes
- Apply the following expression to position:
posterizeTime(6); transform.position

Expected Behavior:
Position animation is posterized.

Actual Behavior:
Position animation is not posterized.

Additional Notes:
The failure to posterize only occurs in cases where the expression returns a property directly. For instance, the following expression...

posterizeTime(6); transform.position + [0, 0]

... does correctly posterize the position animation, despite the fact that it should be returning an identical result. This can be seen in my first example AEP file.

The property being returned does not have to be itself. For instance, if the expression returns the position value from another layer, or if it returns the value of a Point Expression Control, it'll again fail to posterize. This happens even if the layer is 3D and pointing to a 2D vector property. The second example AEP has the layers pointing to the position property of a Null layer, and still exhibits the issue.

This does not happen with just position properties, although is the quickest and easiest to demonstrate. This will also happen with things like Character Selectors in Text Animators, where this issue was first observed.

My suspicion is that the checker/part of the JavaScript compiler that determines if an expression needs to be run or can be side-stepped, sees that a property is being directly returned in all paths, chooses not to run the expression and uses the value of the property directly, despite the fact that the expression has side effects when ran.

After effects is a fantastic tool for animation, and it has nearly everything you need to succeed, but it leaves me wanting more when it comes to smaller canvas sizes. I'll expand on what I mean. To achieve crisp pixels in after effects, one has to set their layers to draft mode and deal with subpixel sampling. Shapes within After Effects don't exist as pixels but as vector art interpreted as pixels. For example, if you position a pixel at an X or Y coordinate with a decimal point, like "200.5", the program will do its best to render a half-pixel for the ".5" using anti-aliasing. When in draft mode, it will not anti-alias but usually interpret shapes as chunky 2-pixel lines. All this is to say that while it is possible to work around some of these limitations and achieve stunning pixel art, I must restate it leaves me wanting more, a better tool for pixel artists. I wish I could, natively, without scripting or much hassle, draw a pixel-perfect stroke or line that I could treat as a pen stroke or shape layer. Heck, I wish I could draw pixel art inside of After Effects. That would make AE the perfect tool in my eyes.

I have encountered a weird bug. First, I thought it was a fault in the project, but today I created a new, blank one, added an empty comp and the white blob is back. It looks the same and its on the same position.
Since its repeating in a brandnew project, this is likely a bug.

Its only visible in 8bpc projects, all higher bpc, this blob is gone.
I haven't re-installed AE yet, since its a workplace station and the IT has to do this and also reinstall all plugins. During a working day, thats almost impossible.

Do you need machine specs? If so, can you tell me how to collect them?

Cheers, and stay healthy and creative!