featurerequests

zondag 13 september 2015

Adobe After Effects wishlist IBC 2015

Excited to share my toughts with After Effects developers at IBC,
after they demonstrated some nice GUI-improvements for the next version.

Some subjects we discussed in the cloakroom:

More flexible Scale and Alignment of Layer Styles: more than 150% scale

Contextual menu access to layer style from the Layer Styles entry (logical!)
http://jaydude-featurerequests.blogspot.nl/2014/01/after-effects-cc-context-sensitive-menu.html

FX Compositing Options: add blending mode next to the mask possibility

Gradient editor: Copy gradient knot with alt key

Gradient editor: Show 50% knots all the time

Alpha matte 3d layers with Layer Styles (currently the matte is ignored)

Relation of In/Out/Duration: Stretch combined with Trim(pan behind) behaves strange
e.g.: setting Outpoint by dragging has a different efeect than setting it numerically

No Autosave during preview please

Lock in time option: let us choose to lock all, or only In/Outpoints.

Make Locked layers read only, so we can still copy values and effects from locked layers

Set keyframe at current time in FX Panel by e.g. alt-clicking the stopwatch

Indicator for current comp to avoid accidentally editing the original comp in stead of the copy

Stabilize time remapped footage without PreComping (let AE do the work...)

etc:
Search for AE and After Effects to find all requests and remarks.

maandag 7 september 2015

Cineversity: Siggraph 2015 Rewind - Athanasios Pozantzis: Cinema 4D Release 17 - The Ultimate Workflow Tool

Cineversity: Siggraph 2015 Rewind - Athanasios Pozantzis: Cinema 4D Release 17 - The Ultimate Workflow Tool:

donderdag 6 augustus 2015

Lathe axis for C4D

Please enhance the Lathe-object with the possibility to choose an axis for the rotation.

dinsdag 7 juli 2015

C4D Current State to Object more intuitive

When I use Current State To Object, it takes some time for me to figure out what's the new geometry, and what was the old. Why not automatically hide the old objects and select the new?

I think that's more clear to the user.
Eventually this could be an option in a Current State To Object dialog.

donderdag 25 juni 2015

Setting the Gradient Angle in Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 in a 2015 way

Always wondered whats up with gradient editors throughout the Adobe applications. Why isn't it possible to make a gradient editor that suits every single application?

An example:
In Illustrator we have to set the angle of the gradient by some archaic MS-DOS-style text pop-up, or entering an angle manually (left pic). Why not use the Angle dial, as Photoshop does in it's Layer Effect / Gradient Overlay (right pic)?

My outsiders advice would be: design a completely new and modular gradient editor that can be used in every application. For some applications modules can be skipped (e.g. CMYK in Muse).

dinsdag 26 mei 2015

Consistent Hierarchy in XPresso

A small improvement:

Why is Size .x .y. z in a submenu, and Segments .x .y. x on the main level of Object Properties?

maandag 20 april 2015

Mac OS Yosemite: please give us better filemanagement

When copying files to a folder that already contains files, Mac OS still comes with an incomplete list of options to handle this:

What if we want new files to be copied, but don't want to replace existing files?
In that case, Mac OS cancels the operation!

So, Apple, please add a 'Merge' button. Or call it: 'Only new' or 'Copy new', or 'Keep existing'.