What if instead of waiting for AE to load--only to tell you that it's the wrong version--the project being opened recognizes the various versions of AE on the system and automatically selects the one that will work?

The addition of styles into Source Text expressions is helpful. I'd like it to go a little further and be able to control paragraph attributes like "Space After"

It's be great to be able to adjust and animate the rounding of individual vertexes on shape layers just like a user can in Illustrator.

I'm very fond of the new text expression access but we are limited to 1 style per text layer. We could be able to mix text styles in the same layer.

I attached an example.

When using Persian/Farsi numerals in Essential graphics or expressions, the Persian numerals are replaced by Arabic numerals (4, 5 and 6 are most identifiable). Persian numerals directly in a text object work OK.

It would be nice for the text boxes to indicate more text if it is not visible. Similar to Illustrator or Keynote when the text box is not displaying all the text there's a small box with a plus sign indicating more text or other options.

For years I've been using symlinked folders to keep scripts, plugins, and presets "synced" across computers, just like Zack Lovatt wrote about here: http://zacklovatt.com/syncing-ae-addons-via-dropbox/

However this seems broken in AE v17.0.1 / "2020", on Windows. My Scripts symlink continues to work, but plugins and presets ones don't.

When adjusting influence and pixels/sec values numerically in the Keyframe Velocity pop-up window, it would be great to be able to see the changes update dynamically in the graph editor without having to click 'Ok' to see the changes and keep reopening the window to make fine adjustments.

Seems to be an issue with the way numbers larger than 32768 are imported into AE from a CSV file for data-driven animations.

Steps to reproduce:

1 - Import CSV with numbers smaller and larger than 32768 and add to comp.
2 - Drag out Number data from CSV to composition.
3 - Notice that any numbers larger that 32768 are imported as being "32768" (E.g: Number data point should be 40,000, imports into AE as 32768.

Happens in AE and PP as a mogrt. Tried changing the field type between "number" and "string" and neither seems to help.

I would love more options for the caps of strokes. People have asked for arrows, and tapers, which are all great. I would love for the angle to be modified. As it is now the cap of a stroke is perpendicular to the path (except in the case of round caps).

When pickwhipping anything to the "Scale" property of an effect "Transform", it causes an expression error to appear stating:

"property or method named ‘Scale’ in Class ‘Group’ is missing or does not exist. It may have been renamed, moved, deleted, or the name may have been mistyped"

However after changing the value of said "Scale" property, the error disappears. The same error then appears again each time project is loaded up containing such expression that was pickwhipped to the "Scale" property. (containing code: "effect("Transform")("Scale")" )

I am reporting this as a bug. Hopefully I explained the case clearly.

This bug was supposedly resolved in earlier updates but has since reverted back. I am missing some key fonts that show up in other programs, including Photoshop. Not listed in AE.

The new text style expressions don't exist if a project is from older version (before cc2020).

Workaround is importing the project into a new cc2020 project.

Bug probably ? Normally, when I render frame 300 till 600.Output files are named accordingly. Right now, in CC2020 it always counts the image sequence from frame 0, thus making partial renders overwrite files you don't want to.

Sometimes, masterproperties won't update until purging the cache. This is very confusing! I'm used to those kind of problems just from plug-ins and not from native effects/features.

When animating a TextAnimator/Scale Start% with keyframes, sourceRectAtTime() perfectly follows the bounding box. But when the Start% is generated by an expression, sourceRectAtTime does not follow along.

Hi there,

I would like to see the "remove unused footage" feature extended with an option to not delete folders. Since I'm using a certain structure of folders in my projects, I would like an option to clean them of unused footage (for performance / overview reasons) while maintaining my normal folder structure.

Thanks!

When searching for a font by typing it into the font search bar I can type SE but as soon as I type A it crashes, every time.

I am on Windows 10 Pro 1903 & After Effects version 17.0.0