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.

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.

Hi, feature request please. It would be great to improve the link between illustrator and after effects.
- It's actually impossible to get the path with stroke correctly from an illustator's shape layer : the brush is vectorized and we can't trim path it correctly in after effect.
- we still can't transform an ai text to a text layer in ae...
- the gradiant aren't available while creating shape layer from ai file
- it would be great to have the possibility to create bin in illustrator ( as already existing in photoshop) for conversion in AE (i mean one bin in illustrator would become a composition in AE).

Thank you for your time

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 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

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I found some specific H.265 footages imported into AE/PR partially (e.g. the clouds I marked in the red box) got pixelated after few frames, but the first frame (which I think it is the keyframe) is ok, when you zoon in, you can see the obvious pixelated blocks both in viewer and final output. But it will not happen in DaVinci Resolve nor I exported the footage to ProRes them imported into AE/ PR.

The PSD file is exported from the video, you can zoon in 300% and switch the layer to see what happened.

This issue happens in both Mac OS and Windows, AMD and Nvidia GPU, I think it's an H.265 codec issue.

The footage was shot on Sony A7SIII, XAVC H.265 4:2:2 10bit released by
https://www.ysjf.com/productDetail?id=5f52633417b5350886710efa

https://private.ysjf.com/freesource/mediastorm-free-a7s3-003.MP4?sign=1bb6aefc5582d1a08f87c6e44b4f0577&t=5f577730&OSSAccessKeyId=LTAI4FzvgHpH9iVQy9NK8J8d&Expires=1599483065&Signature=hSftD3r9veL75mZjg2dpiHtLHJI%3D&response-content-disposition=attachment%3Bfilename%3Dmediastorm-free-a7s3-003.MP4

It is far too easy to grab hold of the wrong value (the anchor point instead of the position value and the other way around) and completely mess up an animation. Usually it takes quite some time to relize the mistake, Most items given different default anchor points by different size, it may take quite a while before realizing the mistake since it's impossible to keep all these values in your head. The only way to save the day is to reset to default values and start all over again loosing a lot of valueble time, and money! Most people I know in this business are working on contracts and usually with a deadline. This would be a great new feature for the values of the Effect menu in Premierer as well.

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...?

Version 17.1.3 is no longer importing MPEG 2 Long GOP HDV 720P footage. I have older footage from a JVC GY HD250 that still opens in Premiere, but the After Effects project will no longer conform the footage. So, I open AE to check the project, to find that footage, and any MPEG 2 I try to import, will import without error, but only displays black. Brand new Wintel machine with RTX 2080 super card. Other AE projects work fine, just not ones with this footage. Any workaround? I don't even think I can re-render the footage in Media Encoder, as AE will eventually lock up when trying to handle the MPEG 2 footage.

Thanks

Hello Adobe,
In after effects render a big project it might be spend lot of times.So I have one idea for that if it can be possible.
For Example:-
I have a computer their ram is around 16 GB.
So after effects use this ram to render.
But I say I have a storage in my computer about 50 GB left to fulfil my computer storage,so in this situation after effects use 50% use my remain storage as a ram to render the file and another 50% for a device as it is,if it is possible?
If possible so made this feature.
Add This feature in media encoder.
Thanks 🙏🏽😁😁