When I use a common composition in multiple projects, there doesn't seem to be a good workflow for making corrections/improvements to the original composition file/project and bringing the corrected/improved composition into the project I'm actively working on.

I propose a feature that gives us the ability to import an existing After Effects project into the current AE project in a linked way, such that modifications to the imported compositions will save back to those original files (keeping the original "library" project up to date) and that changes to the original files will be visible in the importing project.

See here for a longer description of the issue: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/how-to-improve-my-workflow-reusing-compositions-across-projects/m-p/12390089

Running latest version of AE (18.4.1 Build 4) on a Windows laptop
16gb RAM
8gb GPU

When running after effects I can have a simple scene set up just a shape layer with wiggle on the position and an adjustment layer with any effect, wave warp for example, and after RAM previewing a few seconds the memory will fill up and the Comp window will freeze on the frame it's on. I can select anything/type/make changes in the other windows but nothing can be selected in the comp window. I have to restart the program to do anything but it also requires me to close it via task manager.

At first, I had allocated 12gb of ram out of the 16 available, but the RAM was filling up to 16gb usage in time with AE freezing. When I allocated 8gb instead I got the same freeze but the RAM hadn't filled past 9gb.

I'm not really sure if this is a RAM issue or AE issue, I just noticed that they seemed to be connected. I can run Photoshop, inDesign, and Illustrator without any problems as well as some games too.

Every time CC updates After Effects, it resets my footage color interpretation settings.

I use OpenColorIO and often have my color workspace set to "ACES Academy Color Encoding Specification SMPTE ST"

In order so see the proper color, I must interpret all my footage with the box checked: "Preserve RGB (Disable color management conversions for this item)". The files I often work with are typically Quicktime Prores 4444 movs.

After CC updates to After Effects, I must consistently go through and re-check this box for all my footage. I'm able to somewhat speed up the process using the "remember" and "apply" interpretation options, however its an annoying bug and seems like it would be an easy fix.

Thanks for reading.

I'm having an issue since upgrading to the new MacBook Pro & macOS Monterey -- in After Effects, doing extremely simple logo animation (nothing but some vector points moving), the preview works when I first open AE but then will be no more than 1 second long after about 5 minutes of use. Frequently, I get the error to the effect of "there must be more than 2 frames in the cache to preview." In Activity Monitor, I can see that AE is using almost the entirety of my computer's 16GB of RAM at that point.

I am having a similar issue in Premiere (no matter my Memory settings, it runs out of Application Memory after 30 minutes or so). My old (much slower) MacBook also had 16GB of RAM and I never had these issues. I suspect it may be related to MacOS Monterey.

MacBook Pro 14", M1 Pro 8-core CPU 14-core GPU, macOS Monterey 12.0.1

I am using a composition in AE with a complex Essential Graphics that has dozens of properties, many using expressions to work, all organized and labeled. But a bunch of the properties moved out of the subfolders they were in, won't move back into them, or are just missing entirely. When I try to fix it, other properties move or break entirely. Even simple ones that don't use any expressions at all. There needs to be more stability for EG in AE, and better support for complicated EG comps, and ones using expressions. It took days to build this, and now it looks like, due to a bug that is in both 2021 and 2022, I can't use any of it.