After Effects plugins — Page 26

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.

Motion GraphicsVFXParticlesSimulationRenderingModelingAnimationRiggingColor GradingTransitionsTrackingKeying & CompositingScattering & VegetationUV UnwrappingMaterials & ShadersLightingCameraText & TitlesAudioPresets & TemplatesAssets & LibrariesRetiming & SpeedNoise ReductionImport & ExportInterface & UIWorkflow
Meshed - Animated Typeface

Animography

An animated version of the Meshed Display serif typeface for use inside After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
HyperImport

Meng Zhiqun

An After Effects script for cloud and local asset import plus layer, project and workflow utilities.

FreeAfter Effects
Uber Key

Aris Melachroinos

Applies one edit to a mask or shape path across the remaining keyframes of an animated path.

FreeAfter Effects
Stratify

Freshmograph

Offsets, staggers and sorts layers in After Effects, with position-based patterns and random offsets.

FreeAfter Effects
Renamer2

Mouse2Crew

Automates composition renaming in After Effects using customizable building blocks.

FreeAfter Effects
TextDuratifier

Artem Artemenko

Sets text layer durations in After Effects from content length and an assumed reading speed.

FreeAfter Effects
Diffusae 2

Baskl.ai

Runs generative AI image models inside After Effects with improved frame-to-frame consistency.

FreeAfter Effects
Search and Select Properties

Airweb

A panel that searches for After Effects properties by name and selects, copies and pastes them.

FreeAfter Effects
Utility Buddy

SubPixel LLC

Finds and bulk-edits fonts, expressions and effects across an After Effects project or selection.

FreeAfter Effects
The Parliament

Hasan Atallah

Generates a customizable parliament seating chart graphic in After Effects with one click.

FreeAfter Effects
Auto Savior

Ibrahim Ali

An auto-save and backup manager for After Effects with incremental versions and file cleanup.

FreeAfter Effects
Snapshot FX

Freshmograph

Saves snapshots of After Effects effect stacks so you can switch between states quickly.

FreeAfter Effects
Text Layers to ChatGPT

Airweb

Sends After Effects text layers to ChatGPT for translation, spell-checking and rewriting.

FreeAfter Effects
Calc AE

Freshmograph

A timecode calculator panel for After Effects that uses the composition frame rate.

FreeAfter Effects
SuffixSlayer

NT Productions

Strips the frame-number suffix from image files rendered out of After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
Super Sweeper

Akimbo Studio

Tidies After Effects projects by sorting comps, flattening folders and grouping assets by file type.

FreeAfter Effects
PS Shape to AE Shape

Amaury

Converts Photoshop shape layers and masks into native After Effects shape layers.

FreeAfter Effects
AutoCollapse

Ahmed Abdallah

Enables Collapse Transformations on all qualifying After Effects layers in one click.

FreeAfter Effects
EDL Importer

Jordan Steele

Imports EDL edit lists into After Effects with linked media, timecode, markers and CDL data.

FreeAfter Effects
GridGen

GothLab

A procedural grid generator for After Effects with themes, presets and vector export.

FreeAfter Effects
Multi-Cam Edit Pro

Aniket Kesarkar

Rebuilds multi-camera edits in After Effects from a Premiere Pro transcript file.

FreeAfter Effects
Inout

Pierre Leimbacher

Animates property transitions in and out on a layer without setting keyframes.

FreeAfter Effects
States

Hasan Atallah

Stores property, animation and effect values as switchable states in After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
PathPrep

synthetick

Converts several parametric shapes to Bezier paths in After Effects and copies the clean vectors.

FreeAfter Effects
Hugly

YB Motion

Obfuscates After Effects expressions into unreadable code, or cleans them up for sharing.

FreeAfter Effects
GridTrend

Ahmed Abdallah

A script that builds social-style photo grids around a centered profile picture in After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
Fractal Terrain

CROSSPHERE .Koizumi

Generates GPU-accelerated procedural 3D terrain in After Effects from fractal noise.

FreeAfter Effects
SpotifyCtrl

CubeZeero

Lets you control Spotify playback from a panel inside After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
Doppler

Plugnition

A macOS panel that pauses and resumes your music streaming in step with the After Effects timeline.

FreeAfter Effects
Frankenstein Finder

Joshua Fadero

A dockable After Effects panel for browsing project hierarchy, renaming layers and auditing nested comps.

FreeAfter Effects
STRUCTURA

Eunomia Logic

Organizes After Effects projects into clean hierarchies while protecting renders, links and rigs.

FreeAfter Effects
Wrap It

Eric @ VFX Tools

Brings 3D camera projection and UV unwrap/rewrap of Alembic geometry to After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
Versioner

Animated Supply Co

Manages language or content versions inside one After Effects project by tagging layers.

FreeAfter Effects
Aurum

YCraft

A GPU-accelerated PBR metallic effect for After Effects with presets, HDRI reflections and bevels.

FreeAfter Effects
Fractal Volume

grape design

A GPU effect generating true 3D fractal noise in After Effects that reacts to scene cameras and lights.

FreeAfter Effects
System Monitor Pro

Power Robot

A dockable Windows panel showing live RAM, CPU and GPU usage inside After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
Layer Name Tag

Framelight Forge

Auto-grids pre-comp layers and adds text labels that stay synced to layer names in After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
Pause Cleaner

Creadreamproduction

Detects silence in audio and builds a tightened After Effects comp with the dead air removed.

FreeAfter Effects
LumiMakr Video

LumiMakr

Creates HDR-style results in After Effects and Premiere Pro by stacking same-exposure frames.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Text2Spreadsheet

mamoworld tools

Exports all After Effects text to a spreadsheet and applies your edits back in one click.

FreeAfter Effects
Paste Multiple Keyframes 2

Adam Katz

Copies and pastes keyframes from several After Effects layers at once, with loop support.

FreeAfter Effects
Marker Conductor

Sunrise Moon

Adds After Effects markers by time or BPM, with templated comments and beat-aware cue points.

FreeAfter Effects
Trim N Collect

Creative Impatience

Trims, transcodes and collects the media used in an After Effects project for archive or hand-off.

FreeAfter Effects
Evil Twin Stereo 3D

David Seitz

A stereoscopic 3D toolkit for After Effects that builds and maintains the right-eye comp from the left.

FreeAfter Effects
RenderHogs

David Jacobson

Switches off unneeded layers and effects in heavy After Effects comps until render time.

FreeAfter Effects
CI Layer Stripper

Creative Impatience

Removes guide layers, unused nulls, locked layers and disabled effects from After Effects projects.

FreeAfter Effects
Mooviemakers Pluck

Mooviemakers

A panel for importing and exporting compositions between After Effects projects by drag and drop.

FreeAfter Effects