Thanks Rick, it`s exactly what I wanted!

There's been a solo switch for the past ten years. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb916558 66c1103906c6dea-7e7aa.html

Bigger Buttons like these guys finally did in there new release.

1.: A function to render all layers (or clips) of a composition as seperate clips.

Thanks for the link.

But: Why don`t adapt such small functions to a new version? (render layers seperately, or un-precompose.....)

There are lots of great scripts outside. Go pay the creaters some bucks and make AfterEffects even better

How about an option to "add noise" to the Ramp filter? Or call it "reduce video compression banding". It would be really helpful for new users who are frustrated by gradient banding when rendering to compressed formats like h.264.

Photoshop history panel

• Mark

An EASY and FAST way to do simple Cameramapping.

Maybe an "Texture" effect witch is applied to a 3D layer and where you can link an invisible layer (which is the picture you want to map)

Of course, but there are faster and easier ways

I think this task would be well suited for Adobe Onlocation.

This live chroma key preview used to be possible also with Adobe Ultra (included in Master collection CS3), but Ultra as we knew it back then is discontinued AFAIK.

Yes, you can pan/zoom a still image, or load up a Quicktime movie in the background (or even another camera)

• A real 3D coordinate system with a 0,0,0 origin point.

• Parenting that doesn't change the values of the child.

• Easily cloning and linking of filters and layers (see ff-Effect Instance at AE Scripts)

• Keyframing in roto brush

• Ability to changing the order in which masks are applied to a layer in relation to layer styles and filters.

• SCOPES!!!!!!! dear god give me a histogram, vectorscope and a waveform monitor. Color finesse doesn't count.

• Multi-pass Comparative forward and backward tracking. (like Tracker Viz)

• re-center on track as it's tracking.

• Create new text layer, adjustment layer, Solid, null etc… above currently selected layer.

• Better Disk Caching for RAM previews. I really want RAM previews to remember the state of a comp so if that state gets changed then changed back, the ram preview is restored and playable.

I'm responding to the all caps and exclamation points you used for "SCOPES!!!!!!!". I gather you want them rather badly.

If Color Finesse doesn't count (presumably because the scopes are on a different screen), then what about other third-party plug-ins? Namely our own Test Gear product. It's a pretty inexpensive way to add scopes in proper AE panes that you can dock or float in the AE UI just as you would expect.

Is it just an aversion to spending any money at all? Or is there some feature/capability Test Gear doesn't give you?

I'm asking in all seriousness.

(On another thread someone said they'd "kill" to get scopes in AE. But they refused to spend $95. I can't say I understood the logic of that, but maybe life is just cheap in the motion graphics business.)

Bob Currier

Synthetic Aperture

Hey Rick, Compositing applications like Nuke have an actual 3d Origin point. it can translate just fine between 2D & 3D. As for the parenting thing, I find it completely idiotic that the values of a layer should change to where it is in relation to another layer rather than where the layer actually is. I can't tell you how many times this has completely screwed me in a project. Here's an quick example: I want a new layer to have the same position of a layer that is the child of another layer. in order to make that happen, I have to un-parent the layer, copy/paste and parent the layers again. I shouldn't have to do that. Besides, it's super confusing when I look at a layers values and they aren't representing what's actually going on. As for changing the expressions, if the values change by them selves, then the expressions should change by them selves. Better yet: have a switch in the timeline that switches between absolute and relative values.

Hey Bob, I actually own a copy of Test Gear, but I can't use it all the time because it causes 1-2 seconds of lag after any mouse button release. I'll click on a click on a  layer to select it, release the mouse button, then move the mouse, and most of the time, the layer will move in the timeline because AE thought that I've had the mouse button down when i moved the mouse. I've done a LOT of testing to nail down the problem and it always came back as Test Gear. I've put bug reports in, but it's never been fixed. You guys were super fast about fixing a crashing bug in test gear 2.5, but this one hasn't been updated. I did go back and test it in CS4 with the previous version and the lag isn't there. I really want to use it, but the lag is unbearable.

No argument intended Rick. Eventually, AE is going to have to move past 2.5D compositing and use a real 3D workspace. There is a whole world of composite tools that open up once that happens.

Thanks for the link to scopo gigo, I'll check taht out. Hopefully, Speed Grade will get here before we know it. Or beter yet, hopefully Adobe will add Speed Grade funtionality in AE. I just hope they support my Euphonics MC Color!

Dan Ramirez wrote:

 

• Parenting that doesn't change the values of the child.

 

Do this:

hold down option key, and pick parent

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If you think something is missing from AE. Try modifier keys.

That doesn't do what I'm describing. I moves the child to a posittion relative to the parent layer by the amount of the original values.

Andy, that sounds a lot like the Versions feature of Mac OS X Lion, except it makes a version for each operation you perform. The cool thing about versions is that it only saves the difference between the old and new version, so it's pretty lightweight as far as disk I/O goes. (And probably imperceivable if using a SSD.) If AE went entirely to an XML-based .AEP, it would be pretty simple to implement, I would think.

- A few months ago gridiron stopped the develpmonent of nucleo pro. It had really nice features like constantly filling the cache so that you could play back the timeline a lot faster. It would be really great if AE would include those features . I think it makes a lot of sense because our computers constantly get faster so we would benefit from those features.

-Another feature we really need is a per vertex mask feather option. I know there is a plug in out there and you could achive this with mocha but thats not always an option to use. Please add those necessary features. It would help so many people with their daily work. It's like scopes you really need them but After Effects lacks those features way too long.

But never the less. You guys are great. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see what you come up with next. :-)