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

Loops any layers, footage or comps with one click™

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.

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.

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

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.

Scans footage and removes duplicate frames by setting hold keyframes on the layer’s time-remapping channel.

Randomly shifts the selected layers in time within user defined range.

Converts the expressions in your projects so that they are compatible with After Effects running in any language.

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”.

Allows you to render your Render Queue in the background while you can continue working in After Effects. The pro version can also notify you via email, sms or iPhone push notification when your renders are done or have an error plus many other new features.

Will launch a project or template every time your start After Effects. For example, if you have a certain folder/file structure you like to keep for your AE projects, you can setup a virgin project the way you like it and save it as a template by giving it a .aet extension. Now every time you launch AE your custom setup will be automatically loaded.

Duplicates the selected layers and if any of the layers have expressions referencing any of the layers being duplicated it will update the expressions to point to the newly duplicated layers. Might make more sense if you watch the demo :-)

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

A dockable UI for quickly accessing prefs to speed up After Effects. Change project bit-depth, multiprocessing, and idle rendering. This is the latest CS4 compatible version.

Activates disabled expressions in selected layers or entire comp. A true life saver!

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.

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

Batch edit all layer marker attributes on selected layers.

Adds a user definable number of frames to the in and out points of the selected layers.

Will render all the items in your render queue, send you an email to let you know the render is done, save an incremental version of your project and shutdown the machine. On Mac you can choose to have the machine sleep instead of shutdown.

Arranges project items into folders based on a matching prefix.

Reverses the direction of selected text layers. Useful for RightToLeft language input.

Rotate photos in your comp based on the orientation xmp metatag

Fits selected layers proportionally to fill the Comp frame by giving you the choice of either cropping or letterboxing.

Rename and number all the markers on selected layers.

This script will execute the “Time-Reverse Keyframes” Keyframe Assistant found under the Animation menu. If you assign a shortcut to this script you can execute this command via the keyboard.

A dockable ui panel that allows quick access to the video preview preferences.

Randomly selects layers. There’s 4 options for how many layers are selected randomly: You can randomly select most of the layers, many of the layers, not many and finally you can have it randomly select very few of the layers.

Throttle 1.1 Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on August 13th, 2008
This script has a dockable UI, click for an installation video tutorial

A dockable UI for quickly accessing prefs to speed up After Effects. Change project bit-depth, multiprocessing, and idle rendering.

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Nth Layer Selector Compatible with After Effects 7Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on August 11th, 2008

Selects every Nth layer. If you have a set of layers already selected it will select every Nth layer from within that selection otherwise it will select every Nth layer from the whole comp.

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Create Trimmed Adjustment Layer Compatible with After Effects 7Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on June 6th, 2008

Creates a new Adjustment Layer and trim it to the range of the selected layers.

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Trim to Layer Above and Trim to Layer Below Compatible with After Effects 7Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on May 27th, 2008

Trim to Layer Above will trim the layers that are selected to be the same length as the layer above it. Trim to Layer Below, well, trims the layer below the selected layer.

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Layer Chain Compatible with After Effects 7Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on March 18th, 2008

Parents each selected layer to the layer above it.

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BG Renderer CS 3

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on August 30th, 2007
This script has a dockable UI, click for an installation video tutorial

Takes whatever items are queued and ready in the render queue and sends them to render in the background allowing you to keep working in After Effects.

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BG Renderer for AE7 Compatible with After Effects 7

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on November 30th, 2006

Takes whatever items are queued and ready in the render queue and sends them to render in the background allowing you to keep working in After Effects. This script only works with After Effects 7.

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3D Layer Distributor Compatible with After Effects 7Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on June 12th, 2006

Distributes layers in 3D space within set ranges

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Layers2Grid Compatible with After Effects 7Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on June 12th, 2006

Arranges Selected Layers in a Grid with a choice to arrange them by Rows first (Left to Right) or by Columns first (Top to Bottom). Layers should all be the same size.

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3D Text Creator Compatible with After Effects 7Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on June 12th, 2006

Generates text layers and distributes them in 3D space.

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Color Assigner and Color Ranger Compatible with After Effects 7Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on June 1st, 2006

Color Assigner adds a Fill effect to the selected layers and cycles through them and assigns preset colors. Color are defined in float (0..1). Color Ranger applies a color and then varies the hue by a defined range.

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Project Name and Info Stamp Compatible with After Effects 7Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on June 1st, 2006

Works with selected Comps by adding a text layer stamp on top with the name of the Project. Project Info Stamp adds the Project Name, Date, Comp Name, Dimensions, PAR & FPS.

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