OpenSesame brings backwards compatibility to After Effects, exporting projects that can be opened in any version from CS3 or later. Projects are exported as human readable text files that can also be edited in a text editor or spreadsheet in various ways, such as changing text layers, colors, footage and file paths.

A dockable, searchable panel that contains a reference to all the After Effects keyboard shortcuts.

Rename items project wide in After Effects with as much ease or power as you want.

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.

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

Imports karaoke subtitles from the Substation Alpha (.ssa/.ass) or KaraFun (.kfn) file formats, creating new text layers with user designed text animation.

Edge blending is a clever solution to build up panoramic projections with 2 or more projectors. This script will create the necessary comps for you render and be able to create this using standard video projectors.

The stereo 3d toolkit allows you to create complex stereoscopic compositions inside of after effects. It uses true left and right channels (instead of collapse transformations) so it is compatible with all 3d effects and plug-ins that use composition cameras.

This script converts a file into a binary text string that can be embedded as text into the source code of your script.

This script has 2 core functions. The first, Pins To Nulls, creates and places nulls where AE Puppet Tool pins are located on the selected layer. The second , Loop Precomp, does exactly what the name implies. It was designed to automate the process of looping animation cycles.

Loops any layers, footage or comps with one click™

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.

Creates a 3D box, a 3D sphere, a 3D cylinder, a 3D pyramid, a 3D menger sponge, a 3D Platonic Solid and even 3D falling dominoes with user-defined layers.

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

Creates a parented null for each of the selected layers. The new null can have a custom name defined in the User Variables section and also has the option of including the name of the layer that is parented to it.

Displays a palette with controls for changing the size, pixel aspect ratio, duration, and frame rate of the selected compositions, and all nested compositions (pre-comp layers) in it.

Uh, it creates reflections!

Evenly divide selected layers time by current composition time, you can choose whether starting from the in-point of the layer or the out-point.

3D Extruder makes light work of creating high-quality 3D extrusions in After Effects.

When you bake keyframes you get a keyframe for every frame, this script cleans that up and only sets keyframes where there are needed. Sweet!

Easily and quickly determine whether or not an After Effects file is the most up-to-date compared to its auto-saved versions.

Allows you to quickly and easily delete a section of a image file sequence in the finder for those times when you need to re-render only a section.

Allows quick access to switch between 8, 16 and 32 bits per channel as well as turning the multiprocessing preference on and off. There’s also a version that gives you a button to purge the image caches.

Quickly and easily crop a composition down to it’s contents. It can crop based on the current frame, all frames or a mask you create.

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

Shift selected layers based on a sine curve

Allows for correct input of Arabic text in After Effects.

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.

When you copy a mask from one layer to another it often changes its position. With CopyMask2Layer you can copy masks while keeping them perfectly in place – even if the layers are moving and if the mask path is keyframed.

Create an instance of an effect with one click. Behind the scenes the script makes a copy of the effect and links it with expressions in a way that allows the instance to be anywhere including a different comp.