I get that 20 years ago hard drives weren't the quickest and there was a limited choice in codecs so it made sense to playback from RAM. But now we all have SSDs and DNxHR exists I don't get why AE has not been re-written to playback straight from a hard drive rather than moving it into RAM first. It would be great for AE to playback from disk with a choice of codec and bit depth dependent on a users needs and system capability, much in the way that Resolve does with smart cache (see pic). Uncompressed I gather would be a strain on most systems but this is overkill anyway, certainly for playback - I challenge anyone to point out any differences between uncompressed and DNxHR HQ and if people wanted to keep working uncompressed then the option could always be there to playback from RAM but for me and I would assume many others 10bit DNx would be fine. This will mean longer timelines and smoother playback as AE isn't having to move disk cache to RAM for stuff further up the timeline when playing back.

Last night I had to wait 5 hours to render out a 7min sequence on a 6core i7 with 2 x nVidia1070. GPU usage never went above 4% for GPU 0 and 0% for GPU 1. CPU thread 2 never went above 35% whilst all other threads stayed around 10%. Network usage never went above 350Mbps on a 10GBe connection. Every year users request that AE uses more system resources yet it still never seems to happen. By your own words AE is the industry standard for motion GRAPHICS yet it hardly utilises the GRAPHICS processing unit at all. Every single little thing at AE does should be on the GPU It is slowly getting left behind in terms off speed and performance. When I render with AE I want both my GPUs to be maxing out, not sat there idling with nothing to do.

Footage displaying identically between AE and Premiere so not always have the same scopes between the programs.

Repro:
Get just about any file in Rec. 709 0-255
Import into Premiere
Import same file into AE
Open both scopes. Easiest to see in luma waveform mode.

With color management off, scopes and pictures seem to match. Once you turn color management on in AE (still off in PP), I'm unable to get AE and PP to match at all, ever.

I've tried teh following Working Spaces:
sRGB
Rec 709
Rec 709 2.4
Rec 709 16-235

and also tried all those spaces and all possible permutations for footage interpretation. I've actually tried more than that but these are really the only ones of any interest.

The closest (WS: Rec 709 2.4, CLIP: Rec 709) displayed black levels as about 5IRE brighter than Premiere, while the images matched. On exporting from AE, everything imports into Premiere with a perfect match as well, so the ONLY variable I can see here is the scopes aren't reading the working color spaces perfectly.

I've troubleshooted the issue with a professional Resolve colorist and he concurs with my conclusion, but he's also not familiar with Adobe's color management infrastructure, and neither am I, so perhaps I'm missing something silly and fundamental.

For several months now, I frequently have problems where two main issues occur, which feel related:

1) After Effects is still processing a command, usually moving keyframes, where I place the keyframe, release my mouse button, move my mouse, and then the keyframe jumps to the new location of my mouse instead. Like it never registered the original placement of the keyframe and lagged.

2) Often doesn't register keystrokes. This applies to both typing in text layers, and also just general keyboard shortcut commands. It results frequently in text missing letters that just never registered as I was typing, or having to repeatedly enter my keyboard shortcuts before AE executes it.

I am on a Mac Pro (2013), and this has been the case in both Catalina and the previous version, and in both AE 2019 and 2020. I most frequently work in Team Projects if that makes a difference in trouble shooting.

Anyone with an idea what's wrong, please help!

A common problem I have is when a font is missing, and currently, on startup there is only the option to find it on Adobe or accept the default font. It would be so helpful if you could select a font in the list and manually choose one from your system fonts to use instead. Otherwise you are stuck with the default font through a potentially large project.

Another common example which happened this morning is that I have Futura Bold installed, but the project I've been sent says Futura Bold is missing (as the spelling is different) - if I could manually select that font and replace it with Futura from my system fonts that would be so helpful. But now I have to go through 20+ comps and change it.

Thanks!

Why would you get rid of the ability to use and encode to DXV and Hap Codecs, seriously why?? Both these codecs are so widely used with Media Servers for Live events, Concerts, Touring, Multimedia performances and Installations. As they are very efficient for playback systems. I’ve been an Adobe user for over 20 years, after effects, premier and photoshop have been important tools in my work flow. But I’m seriously looking into alternatives, because of the lack of support for these codecs. The live event world has very demanding deadlines and by no longer supporting theses codecs my turn around time for show ready renders has doubled. I’m not asking for a new feature, I’m begging for the return of a previous supported feature that to my knowledge had no issues! So I again ask why, seriously?

Hi,
One major issue I have with After Effects is getting Photoshop 3D/Materials into after effects and being able to manipulate inside AE on 3D Plane. How comes we haven't got this functionality yet. Users have been asking about this for years. I have been asking about this for about 3 years. I know there is Cinema 4D which deals with 3D Layers but I just don't understand how you own 3D functionality doesn't work between apps but you have an outside companies 3D Applications work on there but not your own products. That one I will leave up to you guys to work out, if you can come up with a solution Please, Please :)