Menu bar and all right click dropdowns are not working in AE 2022. You click an item in the menu bar and nothing appears, you click again and it shows up for a moment but disappears when you move your mouse over to click on a drop down item.

When you click for the first time, you can click on drop down items by guessing the approximate location of where they are but they are invisible so it's a guessing game.

This makes AE completely unusable. Fixes when you delete your preferences file but it is not feasible to delete all my workspace preferences every time this bug comes up, and it always comes back.

This video from another user with the same issue shows the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6kHnkX-3BQ&feature=youtu.be

I would love to see some additional functionality added to the Snapshot button in AE to make it similar to the Export Frame button in Premiere.

When working, I'm always taking screenshot of the active comp to send to people to take a quick look at what i'm working on. The downside to using a screenshot is that you get all the UI elements in the way, and it's not locked to the native size of the comp window.

In Premiere, you can hit a button that looks the same as the snapshot button in AE, but they work completely differently. It would be nice to have the ability to hold OPTION or SHIFT to turn the snapshot button into an EXPORT Frame button that had identical functionality as the button in Premiere.

As an added bonus, holding a different modifier and hitting the button could COPY the image from the current comp into the clipboard for easy copy/pasting between applications.

Video Copilot's FX Console provides a nice tool to work around this limitation for now. Would be cool to see this implemented as native functionality.

Thanks!

You used to be able to snap the anchor point to layers when using the Anchor Point tool (y) and pressing Shift or activating the snapping checkbox, now it doesn't work with the new gizmos.

Also... it's pretty useless defaulting to the same type of gizmo used for the SELECTION TOOL and not having any way to change it when you CAN'T rotate or scale an anchor point. Now you have to go to the select tool, select the POSITION gizmo and then come back to the Anchor Point tool again if you want to move an anchor point in XY space for example.

I spend too much time hunting and pecking for which timeline elements are associated with corresponding movement in the viewport. Shifting layers, in/out points, and keyframes in time often takes multiple selection passes. And there's no way to store that selection, so they each have to be selected every time they need to be adjusted (and in/out points can't even be selected so they all need to be done separately... every time!).

Selectable in/out points and labels/groups for ALL timeline elements--any combination of keyframes, markers, in/out points, and layers--would strengthen the visual connection between the timeline and the viewport AND allow for faster timeline adjustment of those grouped movements.

I'd like to replace the embarrassing image import code (presumably knocked together by an intern in 1998?) with something that has functional parity with the rest of the Adobe CC apps. Why should a JPG that opens without issue in Photoshop/Illustrator etc. cause After Effects to soil itself? Why can AE still not deal with CMYK bitmaps? Why does AE still not give you actual useable info on which images were not imported, rather than having to dismiss 2, sometimes 3 individual error messages for each image and then having to manually sift through what did import and try to work out what did not?
Utterly moronic. Professional software my ****.

Im really loosing faith in After Effects, even on official releases there are just too many bugs. Rendering via Media Encoder is no longer possible, it is just doing random things like it renders to 50% and then the render speed drops down to like 1%. Multiframe rendering was a cool idea until I saw how it works, maybe it is faster, but how can it feel slower because of the lags and bugs at the same time?

I dont have time to constantly report bugs to you! Do you realize some people works with your software and maybe their their whole career depends on it? WE ARE NOT YOUR BETATESTERS

We are living in time where real-time photorealistic graphics is possible , but when you try to create few shapes in After Effects and use few expressions, IT IS ALREADY LAGGING... How is that possible? This software is hugely unoptimized.

Maybe I have an idea how is that possible, you just add features to 20+ years old code. You really have to start from scratch, coding has gone a long way since then... You cant just add new features, constantly fix bugs and hope that users will report everything.

And guess what, I DONT WANT ANY NEW FEATURES, I WANT THIS SOFTWARE TO BE FIXED...

Also I saw what your researchers are doing on Two Minute Papers channel... just many achievements in rendering and simulations. Great to see that.... that they are working on playing with bunnies simulations, for our money, INSTEAD OF FIXING THEIR SOFTWARE...