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.

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???

Currently there is an unexpected behavior with how AE alphabetizes items in the project window. The addition of a character after numbers changes the order in a way that makes organization and renaming a challenge and sometimes a complete pain.
Example:
04-
01
02
Above the dash will bring the 04- to the top. I'm told this is because numbers at the end are counted as numerals, but as soon as you add a non-number character after a number that number because a regular character. This seems to mean context plays a part in a character's value.

I would like to see all characters assigned an alphanumeric value that doesn't change based on context.

The ability to select multiple different "types" of objects in the layer panel is a must-have for efficient workflow. Being able to select an in-point, a keyframe, and an entire layer (or any combo of those) should be possible and would improve working speed a huge amount, especially when retiming an existing animation.

For example, often a group of keyframes, another layer's in-point, and an entire precomp will need to be set up in perfect sequence, which needs to be be retimed due to feedback. As it stands now, I would need to move keyframes, in-point, and precomp layer all separately, requiring (at least) 3x as many clicks, and also introduces the requisite off-by-one frame mistakes, etc. In a large comp, or with an extreme example, this can get incredibly confusing and frustrating as once you begin to move things, nothing lines up and is a jumbled mess. If I could select everything in the timeline at once this would become massively easier, simpler, and faster.

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.

We often face the need to round the corners of paths for animation or shape, but AE don't have the appropriate function. But this function that has been implemented in Illustrator for a long time. That function is round point.

How we make it today: Copied paths from AE to Illustrator and used the round point for angles, then copied the path back to after effects, if we don't like it, we do it again.
But why such a long road to this, if it is easy to implement at the software development level.

Let's draw the developers attention to adding this important and ease feature as round point.

It would be helpful to be able to group and color code effects in Effect Controls panel. I often end up with 10 or more effects in the comp control layer and it becomes tedious and difficult visually to find the one I'm after (see attached screenshot). It would be incredibly convenient to be able to create groups like is possible in shape layers, and the ability to color code like we can with layers would also be helpful. It's possible to code and rename effects into groups when making a preset (like in attached screenshot), but this is impractical when working on a stand alone project.