I've recently noticed a bug in AE. Occasionally there will be a 1-2 pixel edge bleed despite everything being properly sized and positioned and extending to or, in the case of the first screenshot, beyond the edge of frame. In case of the first screenshot, the bleed does go away when I continually rasterize the layer, but that's not always a workable solution. That one is an AI layer, natively sized to the comp and in its original position, so I shouldn't need to continually rasterize to have a clean edge to the frame. The second screenshot shows a white layer that's set perfectly at the edge of frame to swipe in later bleeding in to the final render early.

It's a tough to catch but hard to ignore issue. I've gone back and reviewed other projects I've completed in AE 2020, and several of them have a spot where this issue appears, regardless of what format the content came in (PSD, AI, PNG, JPG, MP4, and MOV all seem to present the issue at seemingly random times).

It's not easy to replicate, but it does consistently happen with the AI files I'm currently working with. Scaling up slightly does get rid of the bleed, but when working with art directed frames, that's not an acceptable solution. I hope that if anyone else is experiencing this issue, they're catching it before sending off deliverables!

I'm having this problem since the first release of AE 2020 (still bad in 17.0.5). I prepared "issue.aep" file with one composition. It works ridicilously slow.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wf6zbwqjqnnimj3/issue.aep?dl=0

Every action requiring redrawing UI takes a lot of time and strongly loads CPU - impossible to work. "Hardware Accelerate ... Panels" option doesn't do any change. This project has many Shape Layers with Trim Paths and Fill Colors animation but works FINE and pretty fast on my machine in previous versions of AE (2019 for example).

My system: Windows 10.0.18363 Pro, Gigabyte Z390 M Gaming, i7-9700K, 32 Gb DDR4 3466 Mhz Dual-channel, Samsung SSD 860 Evo, Palit RTX 2070 Super.

I'm having this problem since the first release of AE 2020 (still bad in 17.0.5). The comp preview in attached "issue.aep" file is ridicilously slow. Every action requiring redrawing UI takes a lot of time and strongly loads CPU - impossible to work. "Hardware Accelerate ... Panels" option doesn't do any change. This project has many Shape Layers with Trim Paths and Fill Colors animation but works FINE and pretty fast on my machine in previous versions of AE (2019 for example).

My system: Windows 10.0.18363 Pro, Gigabyte Z390 M Gaming, i7-9700K, 32 Gb DDR4 3466 Mhz Dual-channel, Samsung SSD 860 Evo, Palit RTX 2070 Super.

The best thing this app could use is a refresh on its user interface.

Being able to easily group items in a timeline with cmd+g, instead of placing layers in a separate composition would be HUGE. cmd+shift+g to ungroup, then be able to easily grab and bold text shapes on the composition viewer with hotkeys. Right now, you have to select text individually, then head to a dropdown just to bold something—what a hassle.

Small tweaks like this would make After Effects so much more enjoyable to use. The only Adobe product I recommend to other people is XD because it's experience is so seamless and enjoyable. With After Effects however, I have to recommend it to others because it's the only good software animation software out there, even though its a pain to use.

Groups, text hotkeys, and larger layer hit boxes (they're hard to click and select being so tiny) would do this app the biggest favor.

Create a command that allows track(s) to be flush with the before and after tracks. Here is how the workflow would work in general. You have a couple of tracks in your timeline say a and b such that the last frame of a is immediately followed by the first frame of b. Now if I want to insert a clip between tacks a and b. It is very hard. I have to first align the new clip exactly with the last frame of a then I have to move over b and any other clips after b to make room for the new clip. This is a too much work and hard on the eyes or I have to scale way in. So what I want is a simple keyboard command to take the current clip(s) selected (x) and align the beginning of clip x just after the last frame of clip a and then to move clip b such that the beginning of clip b is the next frame following clip x effectivly inserting a new clip between a and b. But this command could also be used to fix the alignment of clips that are off. I just select a clip(s) and click this command and boom it fixs it.

After Effects 2020 on Mac does not work with Arri Alexa footage that when imported into Premiere has the AMIRA LUT automatically added. You can see my first exampled here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27MpmJfKHqg and my second example from Arri's example footage here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9aRnCeu7PE The footage drops out, goes blue, and goes upside down becoming completely useless.

The only way to get the footage to work is to recompress it all and the reconnect, but we are talking a huge amount of ProRES 4444 footage that I really don't want to recompress, especially when it works fine in After Effects 2019.

I had initially posted about this in January to the adobe community, at https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/serious-problems-in-after-effects-17-1-on-mac-opening-an-older-project/m-p/10994021?page=1#M106682 but everyone seemed to think it was a computer issue. I have posted more about it on my blog at http://www.jonahlee.com/index.php?id=6163621534354849335/after-effects-2020-does-not-work-with

This is certainly a bug as it has happened on my machine with footage that works fine in 2020, with Arri's example footage on my machine, but also at work on a trashcan macpro with the ARRI footage that they shot (all their footage is in fact ARRI footage, so none of it works in After effects 2020.