SURVEY: Tell the After Effects team what you want and what you think.

Michael Coleman just posted a web survey about After Effects.
Please take a few minutes to tell us a few things about yourself, your projects, and your workflow. You'll also get a chance to indicate which potential features are most important to you. Surveys like this to are a great way for you to direct our efforts.
The survey will probably take about 15 minutes to complete. It is hosted at Surveymonkey.com.
Click this link to get started.
The information we gather is just for Adobe's use and we promise not to do anything annoying with your survey responses. All data will be kept confidential. No information about you will be sold or furnished to any other company whatsoever, nor will you receive any unsolicited email messages because of your participation in this survey.
On behalf of the entire After Effects team, thanks!

Always glad to do these. I printed the previous survey from 2007(?) and it's interesting to see what features are now included in CS4, which ones are still to be included, and which ones have been completely forgotten.

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