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.

Currently, if I want to export a “sticker” (Animated GIF with transparency) for social media, I animate the GIF in After Effects, export a MOV with alpha, via the AE renderer, bring that MOV into Photoshop and export a GIF with transparency via the (legacy) web export. This is a lengthy, complicated process that creates a heavy and useless, for the end product, MOV file.

In my opinion there are multiple things wrong with this workflow and could be improved by allowing direct export of transparent GIFs from AE.

1. The Adobe export/render preference for most formats is via AME
   Issue: Formats including Alpha, can only be exported from AE directly. This breaks the standard workflow. Improvements to/ development of the AE renderer have been stopped.




2. Animated GIFs can only be exported from AME without transparency
   Issue: In order to export a GIF with transparency, an additional step has to be performed, thus breaking the standard workflow.




3. The web export in Photoshop is a “legacy” export. Does this mean it will at some point be obsolete?
   Issue: If Adobe decides to make this export method obsolete and remove it from Photoshop, there will be no other option to export “stickers”.

I'm part of a team that work on multiple infographic shots simultaneously and we would really like to be able to link to external after effects compositions that could contain components that are being reused on all shots.
In that way someone could setup and animate dummy components within one .aep file and then the rest of the team can link to those components compositions (as if it where footage) and start on each separate shot.
All the while the dummy components can be tweaked and finished and that would ripple out to all the other team members shots.

This is much like how external referencing models in 3d softwares work.

Best regards,
Lars

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.

I’ve posted before about earlier iterations of V17, since it was released. I and others have found there are serious performance issues in the Dynamic Link. Client templates created in Ae several versions ago and used continuously since, often do not appear or update in PPr when they are modified. Often the thumb will display in my account and library correctly in PPr as the modified version, but when it is opened on the PPr timeline, it displays the content of the previous template that had been deleted...
I updated to Ae v17.5 and PPr 14.5 last week. I had hoped this would have been a priority issue and fixed as the DL is a USP. But reliability is worse.
Apart from the issues reported - e.g. having to constantly purge the cache and keep resaving templates until the latest v opens correctly in PPr, now parts of a text will be missing when the template is opened in PPr. Updating the text box does not display the missing text. Worse, some of our templates that had worked across various iterations (and in earlier iterations of v17) are now opening as corrupt!
These problems have made working with the DL almost impossible. Yet, the DL is promoted as a USP, so Adobe needs to address this point seriously and as a matter of urgency to solve theSE problems.

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.