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.

woensdag 19 november 2014

I need Adobe Color CC on my desktop computer!

I have tons of images on my desktop.
To make use of these to generate Color palettes, I need to upload them to my phone?!

Please give us a desktop version of Adobe Color CC!

dinsdag 18 november 2014

Ai can give more Transform information

The Transform pallet in Adobe Illustrator cc 2014 can be very informative, but why doesn't it reflect the transformations of a text object? Ai must know the rotation and shear value, but it says zero in the Transform panel.

donderdag 13 november 2014

Repair duplicating sequential numbered Compositions

Try this in After Effects CC 2014:

Make a Composition and name it 'Composition-1'.
Select it, and press cmd-D (Mac).
This results in:
Composition-1
Composition-2

Press cmd-D more to make 6 total:

Composition-1
Composition-2
Composition-3
Composition-4
Composition-5
Composition-6

Now put these in a folder named 'Folder 1',
and duplicate this folder:

Folder 1
  Composition-1
  Composition-2
  Composition-3
  Composition-4
  Composition-5
  Composition-6

Folder 2
  Composition-1
  Composition-2
  Composition-3
  Composition-4
  Composition-5
  Composition-6

Delete 2-6 from Folder 2:

Folder 1
  Composition-1
  Composition-2
  Composition-3
  Composition-4
  Composition-5
  Composition-6

Folder 2
  Composition-1
 
And now duplicate Folder 2's Composition-1 and see what happens:

Folder 1
  Composition-1
  Composition-2
  Composition-3
  Composition-4
  Composition-5
  Composition-6

Folder 2
  Composition-1
  Composition-7
  Composition-8
  Composition-9
  Composition-10
  Composition-11


Strange!

Something else:
Delete Folder 2.
Select all Compositions in Folder 1 and press cmd-D, and see the numbering.

Folder 1
  Composition-1
  Composition-2
  Composition-3
  Composition-4
  Composition-5
  Composition-6
  Composition-7
  Composition-7
  Composition-8
  Composition-8
  Composition-9
  Composition-9

Strange 2!







woensdag 12 november 2014

Move Creative Cloud Files-folder

I need to share a severe amount of data. Usually I do this by WeTransfer, but I would like to use the Creative Cloud Files-way.

But the Creative Cloud Files-folder can not be moved to my Data disk. It must reside on the System disk, which is a small SSD in my case. Why can't we move it, or use an alias?

Or can we?

(I am on a Mac)

After Effects should have Time Snapping

For many motion graphics projects, it would be nice to have temporal snapping (an (invisible) grid in the timeline). Currently we have to position it manually and watch carefully to the time indi-pronecator, which is time-consuming and error-prone.

We should be able to snap to whole seconds, or set our own time spacing grid.
And when introducing this, it would be nice to have a cursor-key-time as well.
Nudge 5 frames in time. Or whatever custom setting.

woensdag 5 november 2014

C4d Reflectance Channel Fresnel Presets vs types

In the all new fantastic Reflectance Channel of a C4d Material, there are to type of Fresnel available:
Conductor and Dielectric. Further more there are a bunch of presets for all kinds of materials.

In my opninion the Presets should be in a single list, since it's not always known to which type of Fresnel the belong. Now whe have to look in both types to find a specific preset.

E.g. Mercury shows up only when Conductor is selected.
I think Preset must reside above Fresnel (type/model).



Relative (internal) paths in After Effects Projects

When working on a complex After Effects project for (in my case) a series of television programs, I like to make subfolders for each episode.
Most of the time, I make a copy of the previous episode and then rework it to reflect the needs of the next.
But when a folder is copied, the links to PreComps and footage, appear to be absolute: these keep directing to the PreComps and footage that reside in the previous folder.
This results in me having to replace all PreComps and footage manually, which makes the effort of copying folder less worthy.


I would love to have the choice to make links relative. In that case a copied folder links to the copied footage and PreComps.

Solutions are welcome!