After Effects Scripts

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Parents each selected layer to the layer above it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.