After Effects Scripts

Provides a tool box for visualizing positional data. This script is indispensable if you do any kind of serious tracking in After Effects

Version 1.5 now supports After Effects CS5!

A centralized location for you to store all your expressions. When you apply an expression from the toolbox, it will rename and/or create any necessary controllers so the expression works properly.

Converts a panoramic image into a 3D cylinder that can be used as a background in a 3D composition

Computes the movement of maskshapes based on the movement of trackpoints. It is easy and flexible to use. In particular you don’t need one trackpoint for each maskpoint.

Export a document listing of your After Effects project assets

Displays a palette of the installed scripts in the selected Scripts folder (and subfolders). Only scripts with .js, .jsx, and .jsxbin extensions are displayed. Double-click a script to launch it.

Data Glitch is a native After Effects plugin that creates awesome realistic digital image glitches with total ease.

Arranges project items into folders based on a matching prefix.

Ease and Wizz is a set of expressions for After Effects that give you more ways to interpolate between values. The obvious use is in motion, but they can be used on animated properties of any kind. They’re applied with an After Effects-ish palette that can be docked, so it’s very easy to use.

Automatically detects edits in footage. Like Magic. Crazy, we know.

This plugin allows you to move, rotate, scale, blur, blend and fade the RGB channels independently.

Allows you to render your Render Queue items in the background while you can continue working in After Effects.

Batch process the selected project items. For instance, it can be used to resize and apply the same preset to a collection of movies or comps.

Makes multiple versions of your compositions using information from a spreadsheet or database. The script goes through your spreadsheet line by line, making a new version of your comp by replacing footage items and adding text supplied by the spreadsheet automatically.

Adds markers, splits a layer or adds a new text layer with incrementing numbers based on audio intensity.

Align all layers in a composition evenly on a line between 2 nulls with delay controls for animation.

Simplifies the workflow between Mocha and After Effects. More precisely, it helps you to apply the Mocha tracking data in After Effects in whatever way you want.

TimeSpan is a “Punch Clock” style time tracker to help you keep track of your hours within After Effects.

A floating palette that lets you search for effects throughout a project.

Renders each of the selected layers separately. You might find this script useful if layers represent different versions of an effect or different parts of an effect that you want to render as separate “passes” for flexibility in how they get composited.

Assists you to browse through color themes obtained from Adobe Kuler. Dynamically link any color property within your comp to a color of the color theme.

Zorro makes selection and isolation sets easy and possible in after effects by adding tags to layers. Similar to the way you would tag photos in Flickr, you can tag layers in your comps and then select or isolate those layers in groups by using the tags.

This is a Pixel bender plugin that allows for quick and easy lens distortion correction or effects including chromatic aberration.

A smart import and batch replace tool that greatly improves the workflow of importing and replacing files especially file sequences and highly nested hierarchies.

Creates a complete duplicate of a comp hierarchy including subcomps.

Automatically fade, scale and rotate layers in and out

Useful if you need to embed subtitles onto video for web or tape delivery. Import subtitles into After Effects using the same Text Script format use by Adobe Encore, then render with an alpha and import into your editing software, or use Dynamic Link to import directly into Premiere Pro.

Loops any layers, footage or comps with one click™

Batch process folders of After Effects project and search and replace file paths. This can come in handy if you are moving a project to a different folder structure like a new server. You can also use it to batch replace files in many projects at once.

Instantly turn layered Photoshop or Illustrator files into 3D multiplanes. It adds expressions that let you freely move layers on the z axis without changing the look of the shot from the original camera position, making it easy to experiment with depth in your scene.