These plugins will let you make the most use of a ZDepth pass that you often render out from a 3d application. It’s a pass that stores the information about the distance from camera for each pixel – there is really a lot you can do with this data.

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 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.

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.

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.