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.

Ok, so here's the thing. I have occasion to produce differing versions of graphics on a weekly basis for a regular client. These are all produced in in AE and need outputting as MP4, so my workflow is to make the changes, select the 3 comps that need rendering, add to the render queue then hit Queue in AME. So far, so good. EXCEPT that if I haven't already loaded up AME there's no real signal that you actually DID queue them until AME loads up (you know, 40 years later). More than once, I have to think "did I just click Queue in AME, or didn't I? Man, I'll click it again to make sure." And then, when AME finally deigns to rock up and start rendering (hey man, sorry I'm late, what did I miss?) it now has TWO sets of three comps to render, so I then have to go in and delete them. I know in the grand scheme of things it ain't much, but it's another of those little details that all add up to massive irritation. Surely AE should be able to work out that you've sent them to AME and then unqueue them right away in AE's Render Queue?

There isn't a clear or intuitive way to figure out how taxing specific effects may be (lens blurs are a big surprise for all my younger editors). As well as what components certain effects stress out the most. When working on larger projects the heavier effects might go unnoticed but as the composition gets more complex it quickly stacks and slows down significantly, and by then it's too late to rework your comp without such effects.

I have a couple suggestions to alleviate this problem:

1. In the effects and presets window, have icons and a rating system for each effects performance impact, possibly also include info on what it taxes, GPU, RAM, CPU? - this will be super helpful for us willing to upgrade certain specific components to work more efficiently




2. Have some sort of performance monitor system to monitor and log how long it takes to render specific layers or effects and which hardware components were limiting it. - sort of like when exporting from the render queue, but make it available while scrubbing the composition timeline too (the infopanel is very very sparse in comparison)




3. Help documentation to explain the process of each effect? This is a bit niche but I was having huge issues with a composition that relied on a lot of "set channels" and "channel combiner" type effects, I couldnt figure out why it was slowing down so much and it would've been nice to know more info about the effects to make a better guess, it seemed like AE was waiting for the target layers to render to proceed but it wouldn't properly queue up renders in order so it would just wait forever when previewing.

Thanks for reading all this, honestly I think just 1. is already a really helpful tool and the rest are just wishful thinking.

First example:
I have the wiggle expresion on the sliders.
Adding the value on the scale property gives 2 different wiggle values.

Is this an expected outcome, the wiggle is called for each property even if I have only one slider scripted (therefore what is the purpose of the slider if this is the case)?
My opinion is that intuitively it should add one value to both x an y.

Second example(without photo):
Threshold effect has the slider from 0 to 255 (as integer value or at the first look you may think so). The same as before intuitively you should pipe integer values ranged from 0 to 255, but as i discovered the slider takes only float values, again is this an desired outcome?
I find it as a user expirience bug.

There is no hint or documentation on this type of things, and I am sure there are more of this all over after effects.

Currently the timeline panel stops vertically scrolling when the lowest layer reaches the bottom of the panel.

I'd like to suggest adding an option / preference to allow 'overscroll' in the timeline panel so that the lowest layer can be viewed above the bottom of the panel.

The primary reason for the request is that it gets a bit fiddly working on the lowest layers, and having the extra working space would make it more comfortable to interact with them.

In practice this could be very similar to the 'overscroll' option in Photoshop preferences (Preferences > Tools > Overscroll).

A secondary benefit would be that layers may 'jump' less when hiding keyframes.

I am working on converting thousands of MoGrts/Essential Graphics -Templates for a big TV-Station to CC20 and it is a pain in the but to export every Essential Graphic-Template with 3-4 clicks and a lot of waiting time for saving the project for every single template. It should be easy to add a checkbox-list were you can choose if you like to export all or some of the templates and than start a kind of batch export that export all checked items... At the moment the export is really trash... you even need to save the project every single time!!!! Why???