After Effects Scripts

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.

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 with text layers in the composition receiving text from the spreadsheet automatically.

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

Import tracker data from Shake into After Effects.

Goes through the currently selected composition, and any precomp contained within and checks every text layer for proper spelling.

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.

Will send to the render queue any frames that are marked by layer markers that are within the comp work area. This would be equivalent to going to a point in time in your comp and selecting “Save Frame As->File”.

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.

This is a pixel bender plugin that allows you to move, rotate, scale and fade the RGB channels independentl

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

Creates and animates a Rubik Cube.

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

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.

Have you ever animated a mask with 100 keyframes and then modified each of them by hand to correct some errors? With KeyTweak it suffices to modify one or two keyframes and the other keyframes are automatically changed ‘accordingly’.

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.

Shifts or staggers selected layers in time by a user defined number of frames or seconds.

This script displays a palette with controls for jumping to different times in the composition. There are buttons for jumping a specific number of frames forward or back from the current time, as well as 7 favorite buttons for capturing different times (set from the current time) and jumping to them easily.

Displays a palette with controls for slicing the selected layer into a grid. Slicing works best with non-rotated layers. If a parent null layer is created, it will be anchored at the layer’s current anchor point.

Allows you to split the selected project item into rectangular pieces.

Translates expression control names according to the language of the running version.

Sequences the selected layers from the current composition time, by offsetting their inpoint.

Reverses the direction of the selected masks.

Allows you to reposition the anchor point of the selected layers around the layer edges while keeping the layers at the same position in the comp window.

Assigns random values within a certain range to the transform properties of the selected layers.

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.

Allows you to distribute the selected layers in 3D space.

Allows you to animate a mask shape using expressions.

Places the masks of the selected layer on individual layers.

Locks selected properties by adding an expression with the current value.