I use After Effects for compositing my 3D renders, and I always export 16 or 32 bit EXRs, starting to use ACES. Unfortunately, many, many effects are still only 8 bit, some support 16, and some can do 32. If you don't want to lose me and many other compositors (at least those that are left), please update more effects to 32bit!

Just noticed that I am not able to set a source location while using the clone tool (inside of the liquify effect). When pushing the option key (Mac OS), the 3D camera tool shows up.

After Effects version: 22.2.1 (german layout)

I need to apply grain frequently in my work to clean plates I’ve created, and it needs to match the 6k/4k HDR plates I’ve been provided. I prefer Add Grain to Match Grain, as it’s quicker and more accurate for me to manually set it. Because of the size of the plates, and the lack of GPU acceleration in this plug-in, it’s the main bottleneck in my rendering speed, plus 32-bit would help with color fidelity. Obviously, multiframe rendering would be great, too, but I would at least love GPU acceleration to start!

Allowing AU audio plugins inside After Effects in the same way as Premiere would be fantastic!

I often wish that the Gradient Ramp effect would include a transfer mode option so that I could directly overlay the effect onto the same layer.

It would be cool if masks could be created from a shape layer.

The Smoother tool needs to have the functionality to smooth the peaks and valleys in a jittery motion path towards the average of the selected keyframes. this is to reduce peaks a valleys visible in the graph editor while KEEPING the original keyframes. the more times you press the smooth button, the smoother the line will get.

Hello world,
The shortcuts still exist in the window put it doesn't work to create or use shortcuts markers in compositions for 1, 2 et 3.
I disabled the option in 3D preferences but nothing change.
I update last version (22.3)
Thanks for helping

It's be wonderful if, as well as choosing a mask for an effect, we can choose a layer to be used as a mask for an effect; that way, we could use another layer's alpha or luma to control the opacity of the effect, much in the same we we already do with Mask References in the Compositing Options.

Newer Cameras like the A7S III record not only the Video footage but also gyroscopic data for stabalizing in their own Catalist Browse Software. Now when the camera has data to how it moves within a room, one could think about using this data to create an accurate virtual camera within after effects.
So instead of software tracking in After effects it uses the actual Gyro-Data. This could be more accurate and way quicker than tracking.

An iPhone app that does similar things is called CamTrackAR. I would love to see this elevated to professional cameras ;-)

Card Wipe and Card Dance remain powerful native effects for us. Please please update them to work in 16-bit color spaces!

When a stop is added in a Gradient, it should reflect the color at that position in stead of copying one of the other stops. The current behaviour throws away useful information - a new stop can be used to change the color at a certain point in the Gradient, but with the current behaviour, this is hard to handle.

Text backgrounds like in Premiere Pro.
To be able to choose a background for our text, with different colors and transparencies so that it increases as we add characters to the text. This is mandatory as for now.

After using the Roto Brush over a long sequence, I need to go through and freeze each individual Roto Brush.

A freeze all function would be awesome, and better still, if it could happen in the background.

Adjustment Layer with Lumetri Color above 32 Bit open EXR Sequence. As soon as any Lumetri parameter is changed, the image information turns black while retaining the alpha channel.

Best part: not always. Seems random. Can´t find any trigger. Closing After Effects in that case mostly results in a crash.

Regarding the CC Scatterize effect or the regular Scatter, it'd be great if you could change the size of the pieces. It be a lot faster and less render intensive than using shatter all the time.

I think it would be a simple but great add to this effect to put a new rotation setting.

The bulge preview circle cannot be rotated at all, and sometimes we need to, unless someone have a solution ?

Thank you,