Typography is an important part of many animations. With the great amount of options designers have with OpenType-Fonts every aspect of a font should be accessible in a modern animation software.

Please add all OpenType-Options as seen in the Photoshop Character Panel to be natively accessible in After Effects.

Currently, scripts need to send a command line to copy from clipboard, this seems to be much slower on Windows than on MAC, making scripts not as optimized on Windows machines. Allowing scripts to have direct access to clipboard would fix this issue and make the workflow on Windows comparable to Macs in this regard.

it would be nice to have the option to duplicate layers below the source layer. Maybe via a shortcut, like "command + control + D".

It's handy when using a bunch of "index - 1" expressions

If I change the name of a a composition in After Effects that I got from Premiere via Dynamic Link, the name will not transfer into Premiere. Instead Premiere still shows the old name which results in confusions on whether its the right composition your editing and more. Also I can imagine that there could be problems reopening the Premiere project so that it will not find the AE comp because of the changed name.

It is possible to set and change each property of the effects with a layer selection dropdown (such as Set Matte or Compound Arithmetic) via scripting, however the selection for 'Source / Mask / Effects & Masks' is currently inaccessible (via script).

Please reveal this dropdown property to the Extendscript API for all effects with a layer selection dropdown.

Screenshot of this inaccessible dropdown is attached.

pickwhipping to a checkbox
should automatically write

.value

at the end of the expression

And generally more interoperability with Illustrator and support for the SVG standard

If a text has multiple fonts, font sizes, colors, scripts can currently only see those properties for the very first character.

This means scripts like my TextExploder (https://aescripts.com/textexploder/ ) or Text2Spreadsheet (https://aescripts.com/text2spreadsheet/) cannot preserve the text formatting properly, if the text has multiple styles.

Instead of providing a single value for the text properties, Ae should provide scripts an array of style ranges. The XD scripting API does this and is a good example of how it can be done.

I use a lot of the same graphics for multiple "Projects" and wanted to create a template in After Effects for consistency and lessen the workload. But It part of that graphic is to turn part of the video clip black and white I need to use an Adjustment Layer. Allowing Adjustment Layers to port over with .mogrt files would make things much easier for me and I'm guessing others as well.

I miss you h dot two six four
your size and speed we all adored
but woe the codec list is bare
and media encoders just as impaired
hope someday it will be restored.

I'd like to have the option to be able to import a folder I have labeled in finder (say "Music") and then have that folder auto update inside of after effects whenever I add anything new to the folder in finder.

would be a nice feature to be able to Convert to editable text with an .ai file .

After Effects does some bad math when I try to set the displayStartTime of a comp via script.
When I attempt to set the displayStartTime of a 30fps comp to frame 1000 (33.333333333333 seconds).
The result startTime is instead 33.3333320617676, which rounds down to frame 999.
However, setting the startFrame to 1000 manually in the comp settings does make the startTime 33.3333333333333, which should be the expected result via script.

The current After Effects camera tracker is abysmal. This is after multiple updates of AE. I implore Adobe to look at the Camera Tracker for AE released by The Foundry and implemented it instead of the incomplete Camera tracker available now.

Add a toggle in Preferences for users to default to Separate Dimensions enabled rather than something that needs to be turned on for every object.

It could fit really well right underneath "Default Spatial Interpolation to Linear" in the General Preferences tab :)

I'd like to see the option of "Log note" and "Good" in the metadata display along with the "Comment" in the project panel of After Effects, like it is in Premiere. Some times it's really helpful to have short notes and ticks when dealing with over a hundred compositions.

The ability to paste from the clipboard would be incredibly useful, almost the way it works in inDesign, but have the pasted files save to a pre-selected folder so it is still referenced like normal files and images in the project.