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!

So it has been a long time since i needed to create proxies for after effects, but today I did and was horrified by the workflow.

You have to literally do it one-by-one for each file in the project list. Alternatively, AE likes to just create a useless composition, per piece of footage instead to render, and then re-links all of those to the proxy.

There is no way to batch link them! I decided just to do it in media encoder and do it one by one.

This could massively be improved by being able to select several pieces of footage in the project panel and right click to re-link to proxies created (potentially externally with media encoder). Or it could be a scriptUI panel with a few user options that looks at the filename with a given variable prefix/append, ie.myfootageproxy and point it to a folder (either where the source footage is or maybe a custom one i.e. proxies) and it just iterates through your selection in the project window and links them up.

So that's for re-linked existing proxies, but the actual proxy creation within after effects could be improved too. Right clicking each piece of footage and selecting create proxy, or dragging a section of footage to the render queue for AE to make a middleman composition is cumbersome. AE should ask the user what re-link behaviour is on creation, i.e. re-link to the preComp or the source footage itself.

Thank you!

New bug on latest update.

I'll work in Draft 3D for ten minutes or so before suddenly my GPU goes from 0%-12% straight to 100% and locks there. After Effects suddenly throws some kind of task to my GPU that prevents anything else from happening. After this state becomes active, turning off Draft 3D/switching to adaptive res does nothing. No way to break whatever task AE has sent to my GPU without end task'ing AE. AE does not hang, but chuggs along as one would expect when the GPU is maxed out.

No clear activity causes this. It seems to reliably happen around 10 minutes into each work session.

Potentially relevant Info:
-Win64
-C4D Render Used
-2080ti with latest Nvidia Studio Drivers (462.59)
-Multiple Cameras used (not overlapping) parented to nulls with expressions

I am 90 and taking a course in AE for personal enrichment at my local Junior college. The current workspace for AE is all black and the icons at the top are o small - that combination makes it difficult to use. I saw a tutorial on Vimeo in which the workspace was a light grey in color and the icons where reasonably large to be able to use. So I suggest that Adobe make this a new standard for new users and beginners to learn AE more easily. As a former technical writer/editor I wrote highly detailed instructions manuals for sophisticated electronic equipment so I see a need for Adobe to have a sort of by-the numbers manual to make their products easier to use and more productive. And despite a couple of attempts to find such a manual I did not find one. If I find the tutorial I saw as a video as used by someone that had the tutorial on Vimeo I will be glad to attach it to another "suggestion" webpage.