More specs for After Effects Preview

After Effects is very picky when it comes to real time previewing. It wants us to select a zoom level that correspondents with the resolution, does not like >8bits color, and is slow when a color workspace is selected for the project.

Why not give the user the option to ignore these and let it preview without workspace and in 8 bits or whatever we slect for the preview? Maybe even the codec?

Now we can only select Resolution and framerate.

Open Adobe documents by double clicking the file in Finder

In the past, we could double click a file, resulting in the Mac starting the application associated with it, and then opening the clicked file.

But since these fancy and helpful splash-screens (Ae, Ai), what's new promo's and new document dialog-things, this no longer works.

When a file is double clicked, the application starts, and the splash screens show, but the document is not opened.

Very annoying.

Please repair this.

Dutch translation of 'backspace' in Apple TV

In Dutch Apple TV's search menu, there are two options at the bottom of the alphabet: 'verwijder' en 'wis', which both are synonyms. (Both meaning 'delete').

So each time I need backspace, it's not clear which option to use. Wouldn't it be better to use the backspace-arrow of the Apple keyboards?

More intelligent New Document dialog for Adobe Illustrator

Wouldn't it be nice if Adobe Illustrator remembers the (5) most recent used document setups for a  new document. In that way, the presents are kind of self learning.

Shortcut to Expand traced images in Adobe Illustrator?

When working with Image Trace, I usually end up with an 'Expand'. The Image Trace controls float beautifully and handy, but it lacks an Expand-button. To use it, I have to find it in the menu (Object/Image Trace/Expand). A button is desired.

C4d - A more intuitive mapping for the wood shader?

I have a problem with mapping:

When applying wood to a cylinder, I always want the annual ring to be visible on the caps, and just the veins/nerves in the length direction.

But neither the UVW-mapping, nor the Cylindrical-mapping lets me achieve this without adjustment. And when rotating the Cylinder mapping, the GUI is very contra-intuitive.

Does anyone have a tip on what I am doing wrong? Or should love C4D just be more intelligent when it comes to apply procedural materials to procedural primitives.

3 cylinders: 

leftmost with UVW active as mapping, center with Cylindrical mapping, right with rotated Cylindrical mapping.

See how the yellow mapping gizmo is rotated unlogically (even as the texture preview)

The second image is a render.

Use All Masks as 'Mask Reference' for and Effect's Compositing Options

A great new AECC2014 feature allows us to make use of a mask for specific effects applied to a layer. But I miss the 'All Masks' option here. Sometimes one mask is not suitable to do the job. Now we need to apply the effect multiple times to make use of the feature (or create it the old way, using an Adjustment Layer).

I hope the All Masks option comes available in the next update.

Another nice future feature would be to integrate the blend modes here as well, so e.g. a Gradient Ramp or Fill effect can be applied with a specific blend mode.