Loops any layers, footage or comps with one click™

Batch edit all layer marker attributes on selected layers. Also has an option to export the marker to a text file.

Isolates layers in your comp based on what modifier keys are held down. Adds a bug to the comp to indicate being in “Isolate” mode. Focus on the layers you want.

Corner Cutters do the donkey work. You focus on the good stuff. A collection of utility scripts to make your life easier in After Effects.
Use the toolbar or use individual scripts in your own workflow.

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.

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.

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.

Shift selected layers based on a sine curve

This is a bundle of three pixel bender plugins that will upgrade your current compositing workflow. The plugins included are: bs_SmartSetMatte, bs_MixColor and bs_MixLayer

Exports layer markers to a XML file which can then be reimported and applied to an existing layer, a new layer or even a new comp.

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

Smart Precomposer allows you to do a “precompose and leave all attributes” on text and shape layers, which After Effects otherwise doesn’t allow. What’s more, Smart Precomposer allows you to precompose any type of layer and selectively move some attributes into the new precomp, while leaving the rest in the original comp.

Automatically fade, scale and rotate layers in and out

Apply a 3D bevel to any layer and have it react to comp lights.

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

Split selected layers at their layer markers, or add markers at the cut points of any layers in a comp.

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 :-)

Allows you to copy a marker and paste it on any other layer. After Effects does not allow copy/pasting markers in their UI for now, so this script is here to help.

This script aligns the selected layers along the x, y or z axis.

Creates a new camera and sets point of interest, position and orientation keyframes so that the camera successively faces each comp layer.

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.

Breaks up text by character, word or line into separate layers.

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

Places the masks of the selected layer on individual layers.

Helps speeding up the workflow and lets you work more intuitively with Adobe AfterEffects. The basic idea is to compress a sequence of frequently performed steps into one single step.

Takes a layer in your comp and breaks it into pieces. You choose the size of the pieces, whether to animate in order or random, and how long you want the transition to take.

rd: Slicer Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in redefinery Scripts on August 23rd, 2009

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.

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Layer Marker Rename and Number Compatible with After Effects 7Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4

in Lloyd Alvarez Scripts on July 28th, 2009

Rename and number all the markers on selected layers.

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Random 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 20th, 2008

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.

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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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rd: Kinda Sorta Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in redefinery Scripts on April 27th, 2008

Displays a palette with controls for sorting layers based on specific criteria.

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rd: Render Layers Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in redefinery Scripts on April 14th, 2008

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.

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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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rd: Statesman Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in redefinery Scripts on August 18th, 2007

Displays a palette with controls for capturing multiple states of a composition’s layer settings, and quickly recalling any of them at a later time. You can capture and switch among up to 6 states of layer features, specifically a layer’s selection, A/V Features settings, and Switches settings.

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rd: Key Markers Compatible with After Effects CS3Compatible with After Effects CS4Compatible with After Effects CS5Compatible with After Effects CS5.5

in redefinery Scripts on July 17th, 2007

Displays a palette with controls for identifying the location of keyframes on a layer by using layer markers.

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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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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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