This is an Adobe CC wide issue but AE is where I notice it the most.

Please revert the icons to the multi-colored versions! It makes no sense to make them the same color when the "themes" break down beyond video and photo use. I used the colors to quickly locate the software I needed to open, now I have a taskbar full of purple and have to squint to tell which letters I am clicking on.

It seems like a very poor design choice that was likely made by the boardroom, not the creative team, and I beg you to change the icons back - or at least give US the option to have the multiple colors instead of mono-purple, which I'll add looks horrendous on a dark theme display.

Running AE 18.1.0 (Build 38) on Windows 10. Using a laptop with a 4k monitor connected. AE is running on the 4k monitor, and the monitor is scaled to 150% via Windows Display Settings.

I created a comp with 3D layers in it, but the 3D buttons/options that are normally in the comp panel do not show up (3D Fast Draft, Camera Selection, 3D View Layout, etc). I am aware that in this most recent version, the 3D options only show up when a comp with 3D layers is active. This is not the issue I'm having. If I drag the entire instance of AE to my laptop monitor, which is 1920x1080, the 3D options immediately appear. When I drag AE back to the 4k monitor, they either again disappear, or at best, are visible but unclickable. They then will disappear if I resize a panel or change the size of the AE window.

Also, if I drag the size of the AE window to enlarge or shrink it, the first 3D option appears at the very bottom right of the comp panel while dragging, but the rest of the options appear to be cut off, beyond the comp panel (see attached screenshot). The button usually disappears when I stop dragging.

If I change the scale of my 4k monitor back to 100%, the 3D options appear as expected. Changing back to 150% (or 125%, which I also tested) makes those options disappear again. Using AE at 100% at this screen size is not an option for my particular setup.

I have tried this in both my custom workspace and the default AE workspace (in both, my Comp panel is docked). I have also tried this in a fresh project as well as the project where I initially discovered the issue. A coworker with an identical setup confirms he is seeing the same behavior.

I'm not sure if this is a bug that can be fixed on Adobe's end or if it's a problem related to Windows scaling settings, but it obviously makes it very difficult to work with 3D comps without access to those options!

Since a couple of updates I've had this weirdest glitch.

On imported RAW images, when the preview resolution is set to anything less than "Full", the layer's gamma suddenly gets waaaaay off.
This only happens if "Linearize Working Space" is checked in Project Settings.
I've also reproduced this bug with .dng instead of .RAF, so the RAW image format does not seem to matter.

Currently using AE 18.1 on windows 10, Camera Raw is up to date and this glitch happens whether GPU acceleration is on or off.
Unfortunately I can't seem to find on which version thig bug appeared, since I do not have access to anything prior to 17.7 and the glitch is still present there.

It is possible to compensate the layer's gamma offset manually, but it's still a major workaround to get the preview working properly.

I have attached two images and also made a small project to show this issue. If anybody wants to look into this, you can simply switch the composition_01 resolution from "Half" to "Full" and the bug shoud be pretty clear.

Here is the project: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ensmhOuLroMKAdCmpdrynHDOw8J40TjH/view?usp=sharing

Thank you for helping me out!

I'm going to type my complaint in the same format that Adobe after effects allows me to work:

I

Can't

Get

Anything

Done

Without

The

Application

Freezing

Or

Hanging

Every

10

Or

So

Minutes.

This

is

the

same

machine

that

spat

out

4

simultaneous

4K

renders

from

After

Effects

DaVinci Resolve, Blender and Unreal Engine, last month (these products get their own line because I don't have to wait for them nearly as much as I do for After effects now.
After Effects started doing this thing today where I can't use the machine or any other apps (including web browsing) while I'm rendering, because it feels like the NASA supercomputer I use to render these 6 layers of motion graphics feels like it's about ot explode.

We don't care about the new features if we are unable to use them. Stop ignoring the lag and crash issues that people have been complaining about since 2015.

Two years ago I purchased a top-of-the-range HP laptop for my Adobe work and today it seems Adobe don't care about supporting it.

I know RTX has come out in the last two years and I can confirm my workstation that has an RTX Quadro 4000 runs Adobe without issue - But I need that to be busy rendering 3D.

Meanwhile my Non-RTX laptop cannot run After Effects anymore, despite HP advertising it as "for use with Creative Cloud." It used to work with Adobe, but not any more.

I know Adobe will say, "Upgrade the laptop" but here in the UK a business can only claim tax relief for an asset spread across 4 years. That means I have 2 years of business use left in this device.

I'm now tired of Adobe and their updates. I spend more time waiting for their software to update than I do actually doing work with it.