Workflow for After Effects

Path Me is an After Effects plugin from Specialsauce that copies asset paths from the project panel, timeline, or render queue with a single click, and imports assets from copied paths just as easily.

Plug-n-telligence is an After Effects tool from Exposure that knows exactly which plugin you want to use every time you click the button. It merges your thoughts with patented artificial intelligence.

Power Robot AE Work Manager is an After Effects panel for time tracking and project cost reporting inside AE. Log time per activity with one click and generate reports and exports when a project wraps.

Precomp Anchor Repo is an After Effects script that aligns anchor points and positions to a layer, composition, or parent area. It detects areas of precomps, masks, track mattes, expressions, and more.

Prism 2 is an After Effects tool that gives you greater control over layer and item labels. It adds colour swatches beside label names, project-item colouring, and toggles for skipping locked or unmatched layers.

Quick Access 2 for After Effects is a file navigation utility from R-Smart that provides quick access to recent import, render, and project paths, plus favorite paths and recent effects.

Quick Delete & Reset 2 is a script for After Effects that removes expressions, effects, masks, keyframes and layer markers, and resets transformations across selected layers, the active composition, selected compositions or the entire project.

Remove Unnecessary Mask Keyframes is a script for After Effects that clears out keyframes generated by the built-in mask tracker. It examines the tracker's every-frame keyframes and removes those that fall under a similarity threshold to their predecessor.

Smart Keyframe Navigator is an After Effects script that lets you move through keyframes using your keyboard. Its behaviour adapts based on whether layers or properties are selected in your composition.

Smart Selector is an After Effects plugin for picking layers by clicking directly on what you see. It sees through bounding boxes, adjustment layers, precomps and layer transparency to find the layers you point at.

SnapKey is an After Effects tool for capturing, blending and reusing animation states. Save a complex setup across multiple layers as a single Snap, then recall or blend between saved states at any time.

Social Beam connects After Effects to Instagram, letting you post in three clicks. It exports mp4 files and publishes to Instagram Posts, works on M1 Macs, and supports After Effects versions from CC 2018 through 2023.

Stereo 3D Toolkit 3 by Ryan Cashman is a set of stereoscopic workflow tools for After Effects. It handles left and right channel hierarchies and supports multiple Stereo 3D workflows within a single project.

Take This is an After Effects script that stores and swaps layer transforms and expressions. It offers a straightforward way to capture transform and expression data and reapply it across layers.

Taxon is an After Effects panel for managing a composition by controlling layers that share attributes such as Type, Name, and Label Color. It's free to use and includes selection and action buttons.

Templater Bot Subscription Annual Recurring extends Templater Rig for After Effects with full server automation, letting you build applications that version, render, and distribute custom video on demand. It works from a data source to produce unique videos automatically.

Templater Bot Subscription Upfront by Dataclay is an After Effects automation tool for generating anywhere from 15 to 15,000+ unique videos from a data source, integrating into automated production pipelines and running scripts after render jobs.

Templater Pro extends Templater Rig with desktop automation for After Effects, letting you render or replicate batches of versioned compositions from your data source. Monthly recurring licensing is also available.

Templater Pro Subscription Upfront by Dataclay is a data-driven tool for After Effects that turns a single master composition into many unique video versions built from records in a data source such as a spreadsheet.

Tool Launcher is an After Effects panel for running scripts, menu commands and expressions from a searchable list or custom toolbars, and for opening script interfaces in pre-docked panels from anywhere.

Video Copilot FX Console is a free panel for After Effects that provides quick access to effects and presets, FX shortcuts and overrides, a customizable FX search, and an automatic snapshot tool with gallery.

Arc is a keyframe easing plugin for Adobe After Effects with a compact UI. It applies eases quickly and lets you clone and paste easing curves between keyframes, including a Vertical Mode that is fastest at the keyframes.

Chump NFT Engine is an After Effects tool from Block Chumps for assembling and generating NFT collection artwork along with its metadata. The whole process runs directly from After Effects.

Essential Namer 2 adds your most common layer properties to the Essential Graphics Panel in After Effects without navigating to the active comp, and lets you apply custom property naming as you go.