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Warp Stabilizer causes project file size to increase excessively

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · October 25, 2019
Stop making Premiere save after coming back from idle

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Chris Jeffries commented · October 25, 2019

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · October 25, 2019
align 3D layers

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · October 25, 2019
Add an icon to adjust both dimensions of multidimensionnal properties at once in the timeline
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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · October 25, 2019
Update the way AE handles alphabetizing in the Project Window

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Stop the autosave dialogue appearing in the middle of the screen

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Autosave (small improvements that would be cool)

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Yes please!

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Autosave when idle for 30 seconds

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Chris Jeffries commented · October 25, 2019

Yes please!

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · June 27, 2018
Cache Work Area in Background

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Background rendering

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This is something we are looking into. Thanks for the feedback.

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Chris Jeffries commented · October 25, 2019

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Background Render and background continual Auto-Save, please it's time.

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Chris Jeffries commented · October 25, 2019

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · February 15, 2019
Full program multi-threaded support

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Under Review · AdminVictoria Nece (Sr. Product Manager, Motion Graphics and VFX, Adobe DVA) responded
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…
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Chris Jeffries commented · September 29, 2019

RE: Daniel's suggestion to use the "trick" in the YouTube video, I have followed the instructions and my benchmark results do not show an improvement. YMMV. See attached image for my results.

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Chris Jeffries commented · July 10, 2019

@Seth RE: Benchmark: Can you please share the benchmark project file so that others can run the same test?

If not, or in addition to yours, I have a benchmark file that I've been using for many years that I can share, and have also started logging the results on a Google Spreadsheet.

If there's interest in adding to the results list I can share; just send me a note:

chris ultrachroma

(replace the space with an at-sign then add the dotcom to the end.)

The latest results are attached, and you can see from the total render times that the render times have not improved much over the years... Granted, those early results were from some monster workstations; IIRC they were various maxed out Mac Pro at a facilities in which I was freelancing. The machine I'm currently on is no slouch, but it's not maxed out by any means.

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Chris Jeffries commented · October 24, 2018

Agreed RE: Slow + Multi-core.

Personally I use 2 machines, each with high-core-count processors (Xeon and i7) and AE lags. Xeon workstation has 3 Quadro cards (2x P1000 + 1x P400 for a combined VRAM of 10GB) and i7 has 4x 1070 (for a combined VRAM of 32GB). Neither workstation is a slouch on system RAM: 24GB for i7, 64GB for Xeon.

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Chris Jeffries commented · July 20, 2018

Michael Szalapski thanks much for the tip! Hoping that we'll see AE become the competitor or surpass it, though I doubt that's likely.

If I'm going to learn another package then it's likely going to be Nuke ("nuke") for many reasons, primarily among them is that I don't see many opportunities for Fusion work, whereas Nuke seems to be used everywhere.

Please weigh in on this though - I'd love any info in this regard!

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Chris Jeffries commented · July 19, 2018

Motion is for iMovie-level graphics. We need a proper competitor for Nuke ("nuke" as branded.)

Think "Easy Bake Oven" vs "General Mills" :D

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · June 27, 2018
Please implement project cloak!

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Under Review · AdminVictoria Nece (Sr. Product Manager, Motion Graphics and VFX, Adobe DVA) responded

We cannot announce specific release plans to the public, but this feature remains in development — check out today’s MAX keynote for another sneak peek!

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Chris Jeffries commented · July 24, 2019

Seems this is now available in CC2019 - perhaps the status should be updated! :D

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Larger than 30000px framebuffer

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · July 24, 2019
Composition name Dynamic Link

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · July 24, 2019
Option to import a folder and have AE update it in the project window anytime you add assets to it in finder.

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · July 12, 2019
Replace fast blur with lens blur on demand

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · July 12, 2019
Preserve UI Layouts

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · July 12, 2019
Don't require track mattes to be above the layer it modifies (and also allow re-use)

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Chris Jeffries supported this idea · October 24, 2018
Camera Lens Blur Effect : GPU Accelerated Please!

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My feedback

Warp Stabilizer causes project file size to increase excessively

Stop making Premiere save after coming back from idle

align 3D layers

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

Update the way AE handles alphabetizing in the Project Window

Stop the autosave dialogue appearing in the middle of the screen

Autosave (small improvements that would be cool)

Autosave when idle for 30 seconds

Cache Work Area in Background

Background rendering

Background Render and background continual Auto-Save, please it's time.

Full program multi-threaded support

Please implement project cloak!

Larger than 30000px framebuffer

Composition name Dynamic Link

Option to import a folder and have AE update it in the project window anytime you add assets to it in finder.

Replace fast blur with lens blur on demand

Preserve UI Layouts

Don't require track mattes to be above the layer it modifies (and also allow re-use)

Camera Lens Blur Effect : GPU Accelerated Please!

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