Similar to the Show/Hide layer controls option in the View menu, it would be very helpful to be able to hide the Clone Stamp's anchor and brush stroke path while editing. It is sometimes impossible to change a clone's position accurately in real time. One has to constantly select, the deselect a given brush stroke to see if the results look good. This is especially a problem when keyframing a clone's source position and transform position to, for instance, paint out scuff marks over a long time.

Granted, one can open the layer panel side by side with the Comp window and see the unobscured results that way. I personally don't always like to work this way. If you're working on single monitor, you don't always have a lot of extra screen space.

I would love to be able to access the color control values of Gradient Fill layers with expressions. Right now, you can access the start and end points, but you have to click into "Edit Gradient" which feels very oldschool. And while we're talking gradients, I would love to be able to keyframe the color values of a gradient as well. While I could accomplish this effect with a gradient ramp effect, this means that every shape will need to be on it's own layer, and I'll have to create a bunch of custom expressions to connect the control points of the effect to the transform data of the shape layer.

Project Settings Window will not open at all.

Project Settings > Color > Working Space
If I choose any of these 3 options, it prevents me from re-opening Project Settings window at all to change further:
--Rec.709 VLog
--Sony S.Gamut3.Cine/S-Log3
--Sony S.Gamut3/S-Log3

I have restarted AE, restarted Windows, updated to the latest build AE v17.0.2. I have trashed all prefs.
The only thing that seems to snap AE out of this is to open a previous project that is set to any other color profile. Then the Projet Settings window will open just fine. But choosing any of those Working Space options then causes the same problem again.

This does not seem to happen in AE v16.1.3, so my work around is going to be just to work in this previous version of AE.

My specs are:
AE v17.0.2
Windows 10 v1909
GPU Geforce 1080
RAM 32-GB

Edit: I just tried this same action on my Macbook Air with the same result. So it is very clearly not unique to my machine.

3D Camera 'Link Focus Distance to Layer' does not work. When initially linking the focus distance, it is set correctly. But as soon as you orbit the camera around an orbit null, the focus distance no longer stays locked to the focus layer. Also, and bizarrely, if the orbit null is deleted the focus distance resumes the correct lock. After a lot of experimenting and 2 completely useless and infuriating sessions with Adobe support (Adobe - your tech support sucks - I have NEVER had a satisfactory experience with your tech support), I discovered that the problem appears to be with the new JavaScript Expressions Engine. If I select File/Project Settings/Expressions tab and choose Legacy ExtendScript instead of the default JavaScript, the problem goes away.

Hi,
One major issue I have with After Effects is getting Photoshop 3D/Materials into after effects and being able to manipulate inside AE on 3D Plane. How comes we haven't got this functionality yet. Users have been asking about this for years. I have been asking about this for about 3 years. I know there is Cinema 4D which deals with 3D Layers but I just don't understand how you own 3D functionality doesn't work between apps but you have an outside companies 3D Applications work on there but not your own products. That one I will leave up to you guys to work out, if you can come up with a solution Please, Please :)

I have preview and rendering issues, both in After Effects 17.0.1 or rendering from AE to Media Encoder.
I reverted to AE 17.0 and the glitches are gone.

The glitchy part is on the fire portion of the frame, which is a composition when I use a free fireplace footage which is overlapped 3 times across the frame width.

I tried:
- Disabling Fast Render preview
- Rendering using CUDA
- Rendering using Software
- Rendering using OpenCL
- Re-rendering the original footage (the FIRE footage shown) into a high quality MP4 using media encoder to discard possible format problems with the file
- Purging all memory and image cache every time I switch

What worked:
- Saving as 15.x.x version and rendering from CC 2018 (I don't have 2019 installed in my computer)
- Reverting to 17.0 and opening the original 17.x.x AE project.

Also I have noticed that rendering in/from 17.0.1 was way faster. But... glitchy. I hope Adobe fixes this so I can update again.

It seems that there are a lot of hoops to jump through when working with languages that are in the RTL form.

Specifically I'm trying to update a video to Arabic translation and when I paste my text, it comes in backwards.

I've updated my Type prefs, using Adobe Arabic, updated to the latest version of AE (17) and have the correct paragraph direction selected.

I ended up finding this sort of work around, but I have to copy/paste text from the PDF I have, to the website. Then copy/paste the text from the website to my AE file.

While troubleshooting it seems the solution is either a plugin, or something similar to what I'm doing.

It'd be great if we could just copy/paste text from the documents that we are working off of.