All requests and remarks posted on this blog, have been shared with the developers of the concerning products. The Feature Requests blog is my independent way of sharing, and recording both ideas and annoyance about software. Improvement is the main goal.

dinsdag 26 augustus 2014

Let AE icon count down when rendering

At this moment, After Effects' icon in the Dock (I am a Mac user…), reflects the number of the current render. When we have 30 items in the Queue, render 9 will be shown as a '9' in the icon.
When we have 12 items in the Queue, render 9 will be show as a '9' as well.
This does not make much sense in terms of progress.

Why not let it count down, so the icon reflect the number of renders to go!
Much more informative!


maandag 25 augustus 2014

Please add all interpretation parameters to the import dialog

When importing footage, a panel is presented, where we can choose some options about alpha interpretation. It would be nice to have the other interpretation settings in there as well: framerate, field dominance etc. Now we have to go to the interpretation settings afterwards.

So please give us this complete panel, at import stage:





































Not only this: (as is currently the case)


:

maandag 18 augustus 2014

Use numbers in Typekit preview text

For some reason, numbers are not allowed in Typekit's preview text box.
Why? I want to preview numbers there as well!


donderdag 17 juli 2014

Adobe Online help not available

When help is needed, most of the time, this message pops up:


And, even more inconvenient, the URL is not clickable (I think this is due to Apple API).
Please give us a solution for this.

dinsdag 15 juli 2014

Ai: Please bring up a context sensitive menu when right clicking a layer

That's it. Just like in Photoshop. I would expect to have all the things I can do with a Layer, when right clicking it in Adobe Illustrator CC 2014's Layer Palette.

Ae: Sequence Layers - an 'order selector' would be convenient.

 After Effects' Sequence Layer Keyframe Assistant lets us place adjacent layers offset in time. The order it does this, is the order in which the layers are selected. When using this feature not everyday, it is hard to remember which order of selection has the expected result.
Wouldn't it be convenient for the user to have a selector?
My proposal:
-Higher Layers First
-Lower Layers First
-Random (!)

The Random option would be nice to make some effects. This should have every layer start at it's own random time, but without any overlaps or blanks.



Ae: Import as Footage or as Composition, why ask twice?

I always wonder why I have to tell After Effects twice how I want it to import multi layer .psd or .ai. When selecting 'Import As Footage' in the first dialog, the second comes up with 'Import Kind Composition'. Then I have to say 'Footage' again. Why? Anyone?