Workflow for After Effects

Thumbs Up, from The Machine Must Work, creates thumbnails and frame grabs from your Sequence in Premiere Pro, Composition in After Effects, or Document in Photoshop, with options for resolution, dimensions and naming.

Type ReAlign is an After Effects panel from Adam Sacks for changing type alignment while keeping the type's placement. It handles 2D and 3D layers, anchor point locking, and centering to comp.

UXLink sends designs from Figma to After Effects in two clicks. It also transfers from After Effects back to Figma and supports group masks and Figma motion, moving layouts between the two applications.

AE Purger is a simple tool for clearing cache and purging RAM within After Effects, created by Renico van Wyk. It works with After Effects 2025 and 2024, and is listed here as free.

AE Spell Checker is an After Effects extension that scans text layers, finds likely misspellings, and suggests corrections. It scans nested precomps and supports a custom dictionary, so you can review and replace within your comps.

AEJuice Add Text Controls is an After Effects script that adds text controls to all selected layers in one click. It supports selecting multiple compositions and applying controls to all text layers at once.

AEJuice Audio to Markers is a script for After Effects that generates markers on the loudest beats of any music or video with audio. Select an audio layer, click once, and the markers appear.

AEJuice Bake Expressions is an After Effects script that converts expressions into keyframes in one click. It can unbake to restore expressions, and process an entire project, comps, layers, or properties.

AEP Version Updater is a script for After Effects that batch-updates .AEP files to your current version. Select individual files or whole folders, keep or overwrite originals, and add a custom suffix to updated files.

Anchor Pro is a plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro that manages anchor point positioning. Move the anchor point relative to the clip, sequence, or clip selection, with dragging for precise control.

Battle Axe Anubis is an export and rendering panel for After Effects and Premiere Pro, bringing naming tokens, dynamic folders, background render, compression and multi-comp export together in a single panel.

CompsFromSpreadsheet 5 is an After Effects script that generates versions of your comps from a spreadsheet, mapping data to layers, replaced project items, and precomp contents while driving render and output settings.

Content Cloud Plugin for Google connects After Effects and Premiere Pro to content cloud services directly, without any analytics or tracking code. It supports downloading, uploading, previewing and linking assets from within the panel.

Coresee streams Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects projects into live virtual review sessions. From Like Minded Labs, it offers frame-accurate playback, live video and audio streaming, and secure sessions for team collaboration.

DeepCopy is a shortcut-driven precomp duplicator for After Effects that creates fully independent duplicates from the Timeline or Project panel, including nested compositions, with smart naming, filtering, labels, and automatic folder organization.

ExpressionUniversalizer 4 converts the expressions in After Effects projects so they run in any language After Effects supports. It now includes batch processing and a C++ based parsing engine.

Keyshot Connector links After Effects and Illustrator to the KeyShot Digital Asset Management platform, letting users search, preview, and insert images, graphics, and other rich media assets without leaving their Adobe application.

mamoworld MochaImport+ connects the Mocha planar tracker with After Effects, letting you build stabilized precomps, move masks and 2D properties with a track, and apply corner pins across curved and flat surfaces.

Power Robot System Monitor Pro is a lightweight Cinema 4D plugin that displays real-time RAM, CPU and GPU statistics inside a compact floating panel, without leaving C4D. It updates memory readings every 500ms via the Windows API.

Pseudo Effect Maker 3 is an After Effects plugin for creating custom effect controls. Add controls with a click, drag and drop to organize them, and apply changes without restarting After Effects.

pt_TextEdit 2 is a script for After Effects that searches, replaces and edits text and styles across your project. It handles fonts, colors, tracking and leading, and can find missing fonts.

Safest Zone adds safe-zone guides in After Effects for social videos, ads, thumbnails, and custom formats in a few clicks. It includes built-in presets for popular social platforms plus reusable custom presets for unusual requirements.

Swiss Knife is a set of 20 tools for After Effects, grouped into parallaxer, interactor, placeholder, and support. It combines parallax animation, interdependent animation, placeholder handling, and support functions in one package.

UI Magnifier is an extension for After Effects and Premiere Pro that adds a live circular magnifier under the cursor for enlarging small interface elements, improving panel visibility, and inspecting fine UI details.