Workflow for After Effects

Uber Key is an After Effects tool for editing animated paths. Change a mask or shape path once with the Uber Key switched on, and the modification applies across the remaining keyframes.

Utility Buddy is an After Effects tool for finding and updating fonts, expressions and effects inside your project. Its Apply To options let you target a scope instead of the entire project.

Visual States is an After Effects panel for managing multiple versions of the same composition by saving and loading named layer visibility states, with tools for navigating comps, editing layers, and batch rendering each version.

Wonder Panel Pro is a toolbar for After Effects from Back to Earth Digital that brings together color, alignment, anchor point, keyframe and render tools to speed up common workflow tasks.

Auto Savior is an auto-saver for After Effects that can save your project without creating copies, generate hourly or daily backups, store incremental versions, and manage old files with custom options.

AutoCollapse is an After Effects script that enables Collapse Transformations across all qualifying layers in one click, including layers inside nested precomps and locked layers, with checkboxes to choose which layer types are affected.

Calc AE is a timecode calculator for Adobe After Effects. It performs timecode calculations without leaving the app, automatically loading the comp framerate to keep results accurate.

CI Layer Stripper is an After Effects script from Creative Impatience that removes invisible and unnecessary layers from your project, including guide layers, unreferenced visible nulls, and locked unreferenced layers.

Comp Replicator: CSV Driven Batch Comps is an After Effects tool for generating multiple versions of graphics or animations from a single template composition, each tailored with different content from a spreadsheet.

Doppler is a macOS-only panel for After Effects that syncs your music streaming service with your timeline. Hit play on the timeline and your music pauses; hit pause and your music plays.

EDL Importer brings EDL files directly into After Effects with automatic media linking and flexible composition building. It handles timecode, edit points, markers and CDL data through a drag-and-drop workflow.

FontReplacer Lite is a panel for After Effects that scans your entire project, lists every font in use, and lets you replace one font or dozens at once in a single pass.

Frankenstein Finder is a project navigator and workflow auditor for After Effects. It visualizes composition hierarchy, edits text across nested comps, batch renames layers, and controls visibility with Isolate Mode and Show All from a dockable panel.

Hugly is a YB Motion tool for After Effects that uglifies expressions into unreadable code or cleans them into readable form. Use it to protect your work or share it clean.

Layer Name Tag is an After Effects script that auto-grids pre-comp layers and adds live text labels in two clicks. Rename a layer and its label updates automatically, keeping comp overviews readable.

MARKER and SCRIPT MASTER is a panel for After Effects that manages markers, scripts, and rendering to Media Encoder from a single interface, uniting marker creation, script access, and composition rendering in one place.

Marker Conductor is an After Effects tool for adding markers through a Time tab and a BPM tab, with a Duration field, a custom comment template, and BPM markers that place a cue point on the first measure.

Mooviemakers Pluck is an After Effects panel for moving and reusing compositions across projects. Drop an .aep onto the panel to import selected comps, or drop comps out to export them as standalone files.

Multi-Cam Edit Pro automates multi-camera editing in After Effects using a transcript exported from Premiere Pro. Based on timecodes and speaker names, it cuts the corresponding video layers to reconstruct your multi-camera edit.

Paste Multiple Keyframes 2 is an After Effects script for copying and pasting keyframes from multiple layers at the same time. It adds loop support, and keyframes paste much faster.

PathPrep is an After Effects tool for converting multiple parametric shapes to Bezier paths. It bakes shape transforms, selects all paths, and copies clean vectors within your shape workflow.

Pause Cleaner is an After Effects tool that detects silence in your audio and creates a cleaned version of your composition without dead air, letting you tighten talking-head videos and speed up pacing without manually slicing every gap.

PS Shape to AE Shape is an After Effects script that converts Photoshop Shape Layers and vector shapes within After Effects, turning Photoshop masks into native After Effects shape layers.

RenderHogs is an After Effects plugin from David Jacobson that lets you disable unnecessary layers and effects until render time. It also includes tools for maintaining responsiveness in heavy comps.