We need to have Better Audio Editing capabilities for After Effects, at the moment there is a Reverb and Delay but its hardly worth mentioning. If there is a way that we could use a Workspace within After Effects that has Audio Editing. As I use After Effects for Design and Animation and Sound Design but Struggle to fiddle around Looping Audio and do not want to leave the program. After effects is already a Powerhouse but if for instance we could put VST Synths or even basic SoundDesign Plugins , it would send it into Overdrive and make an already great Program even better.

Thank you :)

John Colombo asked me to contact you.
I'm using MAC OS CATALINA 10.15.7
The problem I will report on happens only in AE 17.5.1 and 17.6
previous versions and After Effects BETA have no problem.

Importing .aep files takes forever to complete.

When I try to import a .aep file of just 500kb with several layers through the menu> File> Import.
or use a script with importFile ()
The AE hangs for almost 2 minutes before releasing use.

And it shows this on the console:

<123145438416896> <DBSync> <5> BEEThreadedRenderUpdateQueue :: RenderDeserializeFullProject ZANZIBAR-2: old = 8b8d7a52-36d8-4cec-a075-bcab79a9c5a, new = 8b8d7a52-366a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-7a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-7a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9a-9aa
<123145438416896>
<AE.GetCodeCacheDelegate> <5> CodeCacheDelegate for Expressions is 0x10a53b140

It looks like it checks all layers, does some kind of .aep confirmation before authorizing the import.

But the strange thing is:
If I import a .aep file (super simple) with only one comp and one text layer. It imports normally and instantly.
From that moment on, all other .aep files are imported without any problem, even the file with <AE.GetCodeCacheDelegate> in the console is imported immediately, no matter the size of the files or the number of layers.

I am a developer and this is hindering the import system using importFile ().
Hundreds of customers are complaining about the time it takes to import a template.
Is there any solution that I can implement in my extension that will cause the files to be imported as expected? Some type of Bypass in this check of <AE.GetCodeCacheDelegate> ???

Kindly

I made a template for a diagram in AfterEffects and which uses one exchangeable CSV which is available in two versions - one with 2-values (22,23) and one with 10-values (100,99,98,97,96...) - which i display via 10 text-layers. If a value is not given in the CSV the text-layer gets invisible, so it only dispaly how many values are in the CSV.
Now when i import the MOGRT to Premiere it works fine, with the first CSV with all 10 values displayed (PP displays 10 values with 100,99,98,97...)
BUT when i import the same MOGRT-template a secound time, into the same Premiere timeline and exchange the CSV of the MOGRTs with the CSV with only two values (22,23)... it displays only two text values BUT it still uses the values of the first table. So instead of showing 22&23 it just displays the first two values of the original table (100,99)... When i exhcange the CSV, it will show me the correct two values in the table (22,23) but i don´t get it to display them correctly

The same happens in After Effect, when i make a new project and than import the project multiples times to make multiple diagrams.
So i think it a problem because each instance has the same variable names, and it it doesn´t create new ones if you use a MOGRT/AE-proejct many times in one timeline in Premiere OR AfterEffects

I'm using Team Projects for After Effects and have a face-composition with a nested mouth-composition two levels down in the face-composition.

From the mouth-comp I've added some Essential Properties to the face-comp. This works.

When re-opening the Team Project however, I get the following error:
"After Effects warning: Could not create Essential Graphic parameter because it refers to a non-existent layer."
The file opens but the master properties referring to the mouth-comp on the face-comp have all disappeared. Needless to say that is a serious problem because all keyframes added to these properties are lost.

Don't know if this is a bug or a limitation of the Essential Graphics or Team Project workflow. But I believe it is worth taking a closer look at.

Thank you.

Note: I've been able to repeat the bug so it wasn't a one time error.
After Effects version 17.6.0 (Build 46).
On Windows 10

It would be extremely helpful to be able to define our own render tokens somehow. We often have very long and complex filenames that string together common elements like "Project Code," "Client Name," "Project Name," "Deliverable Name," "First/Last Initials," "Version Number", "Language"

It would be helpful to be able to define these somewhere in the AE project, perhaps as metadata, and then allow them to be used as render tokens/properties that can be used in the existing File Name and Location Templates.

Sure, we can manually enter this information ourselves when we go to render. We could also rename our comps this way (though comp readability would become terrible). But it becomes a chore when we have dozens or hundreds of files to render. It would help with quality-of-life and ease-of-use to be able to set up these tokens once per project and reuse them. Filenames and render folder locations would be much more consistent (even when sharing the project with multiple artists on different teams) and would require less constant fiddling to make sure we're putting things in the right place.

Being able to set a "Project Root Folder" for example would also address these other issues, where we want to render to specific folders in a folder structure and we don't want to worry about where in that structure the AE project itself lives:
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911311-after-effects/suggestions/37543408-a-render-settings-token-that-allows-you-to-climb-u
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911311-after-effects/suggestions/41679958-render-queue-remember-projectname-token-on-exp

Being able to set a "Version Number" would also address this issue:
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911311-after-effects/suggestions/41125603-add-project-version-number-as-a-render-token-prope