by Medhat Mounier Fayez·Workflow
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Project Doctor earns its spot in the aescripts library by pulling relinking, cleanup, and media organization into one After Effects panel, with support reaching from After Effects 2020 up to 2026.
Large After Effects projects tend to accumulate problems: missing footage, duplicate assets, and media scattered across a project can slow work down. Project Doctor pulls the tools for handling these into a single focused After Effects panel. From that panel you can relink missing footage, clean duplicate assets, and browse, tag, and organize media safely, keeping fix, clean, and organize tasks in one place.
It works across a broad set of releases, running on After Effects 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. That span lets teams on older installs and those on the newest version use the same panel for the same maintenance work.
The current release is version 1.0.1, dated June 3, 2026. It fixed a macOS folder browse issue where the folder dialog did not open correctly from the browser folder button, and improved folder selection behavior on macOS. A demo video is available for a closer look at the panel.
Project Doctor is best for editors and motion designers maintaining large or cluttered After Effects projects who need to relink missing footage, remove duplicate assets, and organize media.
Project Doctor is completely free to download and use.
Project Doctor supports a wide span of After Effects releases, running on versions 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. That range covers several years of the software, so artists on older installs can use the same panel as those on the latest build. Whichever supported version you keep After Effects on, Project Doctor's relinking, cleanup, browsing, tagging, and organization tools all operate from a single focused panel inside the application.
Project Doctor is listed as free in this catalog, so you can add it to your After Effects setup without a purchase here. Licensing terms can change over time, though, so for the current details on distribution, usage rights, and any updates to how it is offered, check the developer's page. That page reflects the most accurate, up-to-date licensing information for the panel directly from its maker, Medhat Mounier Fayez.
Project Doctor reached version 1.0.1 on June 3, 2026, with a fix aimed at macOS users. The folder dialog previously did not open correctly when triggered from the browser folder button, and this release corrects that behavior. Folder selection on macOS was also improved as part of the same update. If you run Project Doctor on a Mac and browse for folders while organizing media, this version addresses that specific issue.
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