After Effects plugins — Page 18

Plugins and scripts for Adobe After Effects: effects, particles, tracking, character animation and tools that speed up a motion designer's day. The catalog lists 1,375 plugins, 5 of them free or with a free version.

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Add Time

Akimbo Studio

After Effects script that inserts or removes time across keyframes, comp durations and layer endpoints.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Remove Silence

AEJuice

After Effects script that cuts silent sections from audio or video below an adjustable volume threshold.

FreeAfter Effects
Fractal Noise Browser

synthetick

After Effects panel with 250+ Fractal and Turbulent Noise presets shown as thumbnails and animated previews.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Replace Expressions

AEJuice

After Effects script that finds and replaces expression text across a project, selection or nested comps.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Reposition Anchor Point

AEJuice

After Effects tool that moves the anchor point of all selected layers at once, including layers with keyframes.

FreeAfter Effects
Foldspace

Denis Mozgovoy

GPU-accelerated After Effects plugin for creating and animating 3D curved surfaces with textures and render passes.

FreeAfter Effects
MaskPNGscatter

Ratio

After Effects tool that scatters hundreds of copies of a PNG or layer randomly inside a matte or mask.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Retro Style

AEJuice

Two-hour After Effects course on recreating four 1980s-style retro animations with instructor Cameron Pierron.

FreeAfter Effects
Zaebects Fryer

Zaebects

Free After Effects plugin that repeatedly reprocesses an image across iterations to create a deep-fried look.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Sandstorm Effect

AEJuice

Turns a still photo into a billowing sand-blown particle effect in After Effects with no extra plugins.

FreeAfter Effects
AE Actions

Shiraz Syed

After Effects panel that records timeline operations and replays them as one-click actions, like Photoshop Actions.

FreeAfter Effects
Folder Fanatic

BPMograph

After Effects tool for building, saving and reusing custom project folder structures with rule-based asset sorting.

FreeAfter Effects
Kineto

S1lencio

After Effects panel that turns text prompts into editable, keyframed shape layer animations.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Set Rasterize

AEJuice

After Effects script that batch-toggles continuous rasterization on layers, comps, nested layers or a whole project.

FreeAfter Effects
Photo Mosaic

Haligonian

Rebuilds each video frame from thousands of small photos in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
YY_MagicKey

Andrew Yang

Simple After Effects keyer that removes a chosen background color with crush, despill and view-mode controls.

FreeAfter Effects
3D Extruder

Ben Rollason

Free After Effects plugin by Ben Rollason for creating high-quality 3D extrusions, working from CS6 onward.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Shape Elements 2

AEJuice

Library of 1,000+ animated, color-editable shape elements for titles and lower thirds in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter Effects
Picture Instruments Warping Wheel

Picture Instruments (FxFactory)

Color wheels that bend colors within the color space and protect skin tones, for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
ASCII Generator

Motion Boutique

After Effects plugin that converts text layers into retro ASCII art with a chosen ASCII font.

FreeAfter Effects
AE Global Renamer 2

Lloyd Alvarez

Compact dockable After Effects panel for bulk renaming project items, layers, effects, markers and expressions.

FreeAfter Effects
Change Default Easing

Cody Sorgenfrey

After Effects tool that changes what the easy ease, ease in and ease out shortcuts apply by default.

FreeAfter Effects
Pixelan BlurBlender Pro

Pixelan (Transmutators)

650+ GPU-accelerated blur presets for After Effects and Premiere Pro that can be shaped, blended and masked.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Paint Cans Font

Highground

Rough graffiti-style paintbrush typeface with 200+ characters for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Pixelan DissolveMaster

Pixelan (Transmutators)

Hardware-accelerated dissolve plugin with nearly 500 presets that also animates other effects within a single clip.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Reduce Footage Layers

jfcg

After Effects script that non-destructively cleans inactive footage layers and lists what was replaced or removed.

FreeAfter Effects
foxReveal

foxScripts

After Effects script that reveals paths and animations within seconds, compatible with CC 2018 through 2026.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Text To Layers

AEJuice

After Effects script that splits a text layer into separate layers by character, word or line without expressions.

FreeAfter Effects
Hover

Breton Brander

After Effects tool that automates cursor icons, click animations, hover pointer hands and grab states.

FreeAfter Effects
Pixelan SpiceMASTER Pro

Pixelan (Transmutators)

Soft, organic transition plugin with 400+ presets that also animates other effects within one clip.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Easy Bounce Free & Pro

mamoworld tools

After Effects tool that creates bouncing animations from a roughly keyframed motion path, in Free and Pro editions.

FreeAfter Effects
AM Select And Set

Adirai Maji

After Effects script that selects layers by their attributes and then sets or changes their values.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Trapcode Elements

AEJuice

Library of 58 fluid-based air, earth, fire, lightning and water elements designed for Trapcode Particular in After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
Scribe

Rendertom

Library of 10 fonts and 2,000+ shape-layer glyphs that write on and off automatically in After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
RE:Vision Effects FieldsKit

RE:Vision Effects

Deinterlacer, reinterlacer and pulldown tools with GPU processing for After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Comp Buddy

Josh Johnson

Free After Effects tool that simplifies setting up an edge blur and light wrap for compositing.

FreeAfter Effects
RE:Vision Effects RE:Fill

RE:Vision Effects

Repairs holes and bad pixels in After Effects and Premiere Pro images by filling regions defined by your matte.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
RE:Vision Effects RE:Grade

RE:Vision Effects

Color correction plugin with automatic contrast enhancement, 3D LUT tools and tone mapping for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Fresh Paint Font

Highground

Graffiti handstyle typeface with two bold alphabets, 174 characters and paint streak extras.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
MaskShapeConverter

ALINCO

After Effects script that converts masks to shape layers and shapes back to masks with keyframe support.

FreeAfter Effects
Hidden Layer Cleanser

Dino Qiu

After Effects script that removes unused or hidden layers while protecting hidden layers referenced by effects.

FreeAfter Effects
RE:Vision Effects SmoothKit

RE:Vision Effects

Blur and sharpen filter set with edge-preserving softening, Z-blur and compression block reduction.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
SnapFrame

Ahmed Abdallah

After Effects script that exports the current frame as an image in one click at 8, 16 or 32 bit depth.

FreeAfter Effects
MaskPro

Zubair Khalid

After Effects panel that gathers mask tools: select, copy, delete, freeze, pre-compose and convert to shapes.

FreeAfter Effects
Select Every Other Layer

Scott Black

After Effects panel for selecting layers by row using ranges and repeating steps, driven by the keyboard.

FreeAfter Effects
Vectory

Zaebects

After Effects plugin that turns images into moving networks of lines from particles steered by pixel brightness.

FreeAfter Effects
theSauceCode

Leshone Limited

After Effects plugin that converts comp footage into character-based ASCII art and exports alpha PNG sequences.

FreeAfter Effects