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Parent-based filter operator for Timeline search bar

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Ryan Summers commented · February 11, 2020

+1 to Brent's suggestion as well.

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · February 11, 2020
Add an icon to adjust both dimensions of multidimensionnal properties at once in the timeline
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Ryan Summers supported this idea · September 05, 2019
Tapered Strokes

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · August 17, 2018
Full program multi-threaded support

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Hello everybody!

(This post was co-authored by Tim Kurkoski (After Effects Product Owner), Andrew Cheyne (After Effects Engineering Manager), and Victoria Nece (After Effects Product Manager).)

This thread has been sitting here for quite a while without a response. To start, we want to apologize for that. We haven’t been ignoring you or your feedback – this is just a particularly complex topic. That said, it’s time for us to check in with you, clarify a few things, and give you an idea of what we’re looking at for the future of After Effects, especially when it comes to performance.

To start, we fully understand that you want After Effects to be as fast as it can be – utilizing your computer’s hardware resources to render as fast as possible. Over the last several years, we have been working on the performance of After Effects constantly. Sometimes those performance gains are obvious, like GPU rendering or improving an individual effect’s use of the CPU. Sometimes it’s less obvious, like making expressions evaluate faster via a modern JavaScript engine.

Before jumping into the specific request here (multi-threading AE), we should talk about how the AE team looks at performance in general. There are three areas:

Rendering Performance: How fast can AE get pixels onto your screen?

Interactive Performance: How fast does the UI respond to your actions?

Workflow Performance: How fast can you complete a task in AE?

All three are important. All three impact how quickly you can make creative decisions and get your work done. This request and this discussion are focused on the first area, rendering, so we will focus on that, however we don’t want to lose sight of the bigger picture.

Rendering Performance

What have as the AE Team been doing? When we set out to tackle rendering performance, we looked at the potential improvement offered by different technical paths. And we set a high bar: we didn’t want to just have an incremental speed increase. We wanted a major leap forward in rendering power.

The obvious technology that would enable us to achieve that goal was leveraging the GPU. Because GPU processing power has leapfrogged the CPU — and is explicitly designed to handle this type of processing — the decision was made to invest in getting AE’s core rendering pipeline running on the GPU.

This is not a small task, and we’re not done yet. The most visible result of this effort has been the porting of individual effects to the GPU – more than 40 so far. Less visible is the work we’ve done getting the rest of the After Effects rendering pipeline on the GPU, such as layer transforms and motion blur or debayering RED raw R3D footage.

We still have further to go, as the real power of the GPU is unlocked when you don’t have to send a frame back and forth between CPU and GPU for different stages of rendering. As more links of the GPU chain come online, you can expect further rendering performance gains.

Multi-Threading

We do know what you’re thinking at this point. You want to know what we’re doing about multi-threading.

We all recognize that After Effects would benefit from additional general-purpose multi-threaded rendering. And while we can’t get into specifics here or make any promises about our future roadmap (that’s all confidential when you’re a publicly traded company), we are actively working on multi-threaded CPU rendering.

Ultimately, when it comes to achieving the best rendering speeds possible for AE, we know we’ll need a combination of GPU and CPU processing that maxes out all the resources on your machine.

We recently partnered with the folks at School of Motion and they did a fantastic video on how to get a more optimized system for After Effects: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/tutorials/after-effects-computer

Please keep posting and letting us know what you think. We’ll continue to watch this thread (and all the others on UserVoice). And we appreciate your patience with our response to this post.
Hello everybody!

(This post was co-authored by Tim Kurkoski (After Effects Product Owner), Andrew Cheyne (After Effects Engineering Manager), and Victoria Nece (After Effects Product Manager).)

This thread has been sitting here for quite a while without a response. To start, we want to apologize for that. We haven’t been ignoring you or your feedback – this is just a particularly complex topic. That said, it’s time for us to check in with you, clarify a few things, and give you an idea of what we’re looking at for the future of After Effects, especially when it comes to performance.

To start, we fully understand that you want After Effects to be as fast as it can be – utilizing your computer’s hardware resources to render as fast as possible. Over the last several years, we have been working on the performance of After Effects constantly. Sometimes those performance gains…
Ryan Summers supported this idea · August 17, 2018
Scripting access to set markers as "selected"

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · July 18, 2018
snap to proportional grid

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · July 18, 2018
Copy plugins and scripts to a newer AfterEffects version when I update

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · July 18, 2018
A histogram within the curves window. Thank you

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · July 18, 2018
Remove proxies

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · July 13, 2018
Add back rendering support for H264 codec directly out of AE

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · July 04, 2018
Add option for J K hotkeys to work with only selected layer(s)

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · July 04, 2018
smart cache in background while working simultaneously

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · June 08, 2018
Keyboard shortcuts are not updated in the Tooltips

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · June 08, 2018
32-bit RPF data need to support in AE cc 2017
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Ryan Summers supported this idea · June 08, 2018
Make use of TIFF's ExtraSamples tag

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · June 08, 2018
Tappered Stroke paths

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · June 08, 2018
Seperate dropdown menu for 3rd party scripts
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Ryan Summers commented · May 31, 2018

Two quick tips – you can use the arrow buttons to scroll when your cursor is over that GIGANTIC list of scripts. And you can go scroll up and it will quickly go to the end of your list once it gets past the first entry.

The other hot tip here is press the first letter of whatever script you're looking for and it will jump real quick to that area of the list. So, if you need to get to rd_Comp Setter? Click on Window, hover your mouse over the list, and type R a couple times.

Boom!

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Zoom To Work Area

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Ryan Summers shared this idea · May 31, 2018
colorama to 32bpc and Gpu and update color picker

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Ryan Summers supported this idea · May 27, 2018
The ability to choose which font After Effects uses to replace "missing" fonts.

36 votes

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My feedback

Parent-based filter operator for Timeline search bar

Add an icon to adjust both dimensions of multidimensionnal properties at once in the timeline

Tapered Strokes

Full program multi-threaded support

Scripting access to set markers as "selected"

snap to proportional grid

Copy plugins and scripts to a newer AfterEffects version when I update

A histogram within the curves window. Thank you

Remove proxies

Add back rendering support for H264 codec directly out of AE

Add option for J K hotkeys to work with only selected layer(s)

smart cache in background while working simultaneously

Keyboard shortcuts are not updated in the Tooltips

32-bit RPF data need to support in AE cc 2017

Make use of TIFF's ExtraSamples tag

Tappered Stroke paths

Seperate dropdown menu for 3rd party scripts

Zoom To Work Area

colorama to 32bpc and Gpu and update color picker

The ability to choose which font After Effects uses to replace "missing" fonts.

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