You can right-click to add a property to the Essential Graphics panel. Great! But it always pulls up the last comp that was open for some reason—and you might not even remember which comp it was if you haven't opened the panel for quite a while. I can't see a use case where I'd ever want to add a property from one comp to another comp's Master Properties—especially as it throws an error.

Rather than going through all of that error checking and forcing me to first right-click to open the comp in the EG panel, when I use Add Property to Essential Graphics it should instead:

1. Open the EG panel.


2. Force the panel to load the current active comp.


3. Append the selected property.

This + being able to add from the effects panel would make Master Properties infinitely more usable.

When transitions between scenes are more complex using Premiere to dynamic link AE comps isn't an option. Being able to dynamic link .aep files within .aep files would allow multiple users to work simultaneously on different precomps while not disturbing or overwriting the master comp.

When we're up against deadlines we need 2-3 animators working at the same time. It would save a lot of time not to collect a comp work on it, bring it back in and replace the old one or simply waiting for one animator to finish their task before another can open the file and make their changes.

I would like to see ALT+Drag to copy/duplicate for layers in the timeline and assets in the project panel. Its a standard function for the rest of the adobe suite and for some reason its missing from AE. There's not even an alternate function, its just missing. I understand holding alt and dragging selected key frames in the timeline does temporal stretch. so I see why it might be harder to implement for key frames without upsetting current functions. But, this seems to be a missing feature that would be widely appreciated for those of us that use the wider adobe tool set.

I need to make an automated workflow for versioning motion graphics templates and exporting .mogrt files. I've implemented a .jsx script to do so.

However, when exporting via script using exportAsMotionGraphicsTemplate, the exported .mogrt files loose some properties in their embedded deifnition.json files - they miss eg. default values, default text strings and their menu options arrays are empty.

This means they are not working in Premiere, where the result is empty dropdown menus and text inputs that reset to empty and will only send empty strings to the template regardless of user input.

Attached is a zip file with two examples of mogrts, and their unzipped definition.json files: one is a manual export and works as expected, another is a scripted export with errors.

A diff of the two definition.json files will show the problem with empty values for keys like capsuleparams.capParams.capPropDefault, capsuleparams.capParams.textEditValue and value.strDB.str

best / ole kristensen

DR - Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Sorry about the ranting, but this made me very disappointed to Adobe again:

So, Adobe and Mac combination is not for pro users?

First Adobe disabled exporting Prores XQ on Mac, now latest update (17.0.4.) disables Pro Import plugin, making importing AAF, OMF, FCP XML impossible - even I don't use macOS Catalina!
In Orwellian way, this is listed under "Bug fixes"! Made me spill my coffee.
At least add a warning sign to get user attention before pressing update!

If Premiere can import some of these formats, why not After Effects?
I would imagine Adobe's $11 billion annual revenue would allow hiring capable code writers...?

As of the recent 17.0.2 update, I'm finding that I can't import Animate .fla files into AE.

The import dialog hangs for a while (whited-out in a non responsive state), then returns an error simply stating: "An error occured while importing this file. Please try again.". This error often appears behind the import dialog, and is easily missed.

This seems to happen with all .fla files, so I don't think it's a specifically broken file. On the previous AE / An version I had gotten around 50% of the way through a large project with fla importing working fine, and now I've effectively hit a wall due to this and can't proceed to delivery.

Possibly related, is since the upgrade, any dynamically linked file in a project throws the error:
GPUSniffer.exe - Entry Point Not Found

This bug is raised in other threads: https://community.adobe.com/t5/character-animator/character-animator-exe-entry-point-not-found/td-p/...

Uninstalling/Reinstalling AE makes the problem go away, but only temporarily. Signing out of windows / restarting the computer makes it come back.

Steps taken to attempt a resolution:

• Restarting machine


• Attempts with different files / new projects


• Complete uninstall / reinstall of Animate and After Effects, including dumping preferences


• Update / reinstall NVIDIA and intel graphics drivers

System:
Dell G3 3779 i7-8750H 32GB ram
Windows 10 build 18363

After Effects 17.0.2 / 17.0.3
Animate 20.0.2
Intel UHD 630 - Driver 24.20.100.6286
NVIDIA GTX1060 - Driver 26.21.14.4219

If I set my autosave to activate every 20 minutes, then I should see an autosave file every 20 minutes. But that just doesn't seem to be the case.

Does it only activate if a manual save hasn't been triggered in over 20 minutes? Because if so, it's very shortsighted and risky! If I make a manual save it's because I want to save the work I'm doing right at that moment. Autosaves, on the other hand, are for going back to past stages of the project.

I shouldn't have to worry about autosaves not activating, just because I'm being diligent about manual saving every few minutes. I'm currently looking at a project file that I've been working on for the last two days, and my last autosave was 2 days ago! Unacceptable.

This is something that has bugged me for years.  I open a project, render.  Hop into a different project. Add to Render Queue.  Now all of my settings are pointing to the other projects render paths... 

I work for an advertising agency and I am constantly rendering work for multiple clients. When going back and forth the only way to retain output paths is to duplicate the item in the render queue.  Why?  Each composition should have the option within the -- Composition Settings -- to set a render path.  When you duplicate the comp, the render path stays.  This seems like a simple concept but I am sure is more complicated on the back end. 

I want to be able to add a render path to the comp, within comp settings.  This way when I send to render queue I know it is going to the right place without having to constantly click on modules, outputs, and so on.  This would save so much time!!  When duplicating the comp to version up...the path stays with the new comp name allowing for fast and convenient incrementing.

Anyways, thanks for reading!

• David