Workflow for After Effects

Hidden Layer Cleanser is an After Effects script that removes unused or hidden layers from your project, preparing a tidy, organized composition ready for archiving or handover to another person.

MaskPro is an After Effects panel that brings mask operations into one place. It handles one-click selection, copying with or without keyframes, deletion, pre-composing, freezing, and converting between shapes and masks.

MaskShapeConverter is an After Effects script from ALINCO that converts masks to shapes and shapes to masks. It supports keyframes, a Merge Shapes setting, and options for track mattes and 3D layers.

Mt. Mograph Wander is a media-browsing extension for After Effects and Premiere Pro that searches, downloads, and adds media to your project, including GIFs, memes, emojis, and more from over 62 million files.

RE:Vision Effects FieldsKit is a field-processing plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro, offering Deinterlacer, Reinterlacer, and Pulldown tools with GPU processing. Final Cut Pro is supported as well.

Reduce Footage Layers is a script for After Effects that non-destructively cleans inactive footage layers from your timelines. It works across After Effects 2025 back through CC 2017, from developer jfcg.

Select Every Other Layer is an After Effects panel for row-based layer selection using freeform ranges or steps. It offers an animated UI, real-time readouts, and a fully keyboard-driven workflow.

SnapFrame is an After Effects script for one-click frame export as an image. It supports 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit depth, retains chosen settings across exports, and appends a number to avoid overwriting duplicates.

AE Work Manager is an After Effects panel for time tracking and project cost reporting. Log time per activity with one click while the panel records in the background, then export a report when the project wraps.

AEFocus is a separate application built for After Effects that hides all floating panels with a single key, letting you focus on your composition and restore the panels whenever you need them.

Immigration is a smart import and batch replace tool for After Effects that streamlines bringing in files, file sequences, and deeply nested hierarchies. It shows file sequences as single line items and scans the file system with a custom algorithm.

Magnum is a plugin for After Effects that automatically detects edits in footage. Its detection engine works with all footage types, and results can be trimmed, named, and exported as thumbnails with optional spreadsheet data.

AEtoGSAP is an After Effects extension that exports animations to web-friendly formats such as GSAP. It converts timing, easing, and supported layers into GSAP-ready code, plus HTML and CSS files for instant preview.

aiImageGen brings AI image generation into Adobe After Effects by connecting to Replicate. Generate images from a text prompt, a reference image, or a live screenshot of your comp, all inside AE.

Automatic Duck Ximport AE is an After Effects plug-in from Automatic Duck that imports .fcpxml files from Final Cut Pro X 10.1.2 and later, bringing a Final Cut Pro X timeline into After Effects CS6 or CC.

aw-Autosaver is a replacement for the standard After Effects auto save, developed by MotionLand, adding manual and automatic .aep backups to any location along with a customizable interval and version count.

ClipToAE imports Clip Studio Paint animations directly into After Effects. Developed by Conde Pablo, it handles layer interpretation and animation folders during import, and runs on After Effects versions from CC 2017 through 2026.

Co-Dependencies is a script for After Effects that lets you keep the files you need and remove the ones you don't. Built by Andrew Hildebrand, it's compatible with both Mac and Windows.

CornerPinner is a script for After Effects that adds, converts, mattes, rounds, inverts, rotates and precomps corner pins. It also converts between corner pin effect types and builds simple mattes from existing pins.

CrossFrame - Design Once for Every Format is an After Effects plugin that builds an animation in one master composition and adapts it to 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 and custom aspect ratios.

Duplicate & Rename is an After Effects plugin from Poly Artboard that simplifies duplicating and renaming layers. It supports customizable search and replacement terms, layer position adjustment, flipping, and a selection of label colors.

Duplicate Frame Remo, developed by Lloyd Alvarez for After Effects, removes duplicate frames in footage. It can optionally retime the footage back to its original length using After Effects' built-in retiming tools, Pixel Motion and Frame Mix.

Effect Matte adds a perfectly sized, customizable matte directly to a layer in After Effects, removing the need for an additional layer to act as a track matte, and it's built by Plugin Everything.

expressCode brings VS Code's editor into After Effects, adding IntelliSense completion, real-time error checking, hover definitions, and TypeScript support. Edit any expression in a comp directly, and save frequently used scripts to a built-in library.