AE Global Renamer 2

Bulk rename anything in After Effects. Completely rewritten with lots more functionality and a super tiny UI!

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Description

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

Features

  • Super tiny UI, dock it anywhere!
  • Save to presets
  • Unlimited Search/Replace pairs
  • Add Suffix and Prefix
  • Replace all at once or one item at a time
  • Incremental numbering with padding option
  • Option to only rename duplicates
  • Option to use Regular Expressions (Regex)
  • NEW: hold down the SHIFT key when selecting 'Add preset' to reveal the setting file in the filesystem. You can then copy that file to same location on the other machine to share or backup presets.

Rename anything!

  • Project panel item names
  • Layer names
  • Effect names
  • Text in Text Layers
  • Layer and Comp Marker
  • Expressions
  • Property names and children (Masks, Puppet Pins, Shape Layer properties, etc)
  • Render queue footage paths

Special replace keywords:

  • [layername] - will insert the layer name
  • [layerindex] - will insert the layer index. Tip: adding zeroes will pad [000layerindex] = 001,002,etc
  • [layercomment] - will insert the layer comment
  • [layer#name] - will insert the name of the layer # indicated. To insert the name of layer 5: [layer5name]
  • [compname] - will insert the comp name
  • [projectname] - will insert the project name
  • [date:E MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm a] - will insert the current date and time, this field uses the JavascriptToolbox.com date function which can be further customized. Please refer to their documentation for further reference: Date Formatting
  • [num=##,inc=##] - will insert a sequential padded number and increment by the optional inc, numbers can be negative, add leading zeros to pad.
    For example: [num=005,inc=-10] will start numbering at 15 and increase (decrease really) by -10 with 3 number padding: 015, 005, -005, etc

Quick Start Guide

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Version History

2.6.4 -

Nov 5, 2025

- Fix for license activation connection issues (Updated framework to 4.4.1)

2.6.3 -

Nov 5, 2025


- Fix for license activation issues (Updated framework to 4.4.0)

2.6.2 -

Jan 16, 2024

- Fixed issue with previous release. Please upgrade as 2.6.1 won't work in some cases

2.6.1 -

Dec 20, 2023

- Added option to reveal settings file (which includes user saved presets) in finder for backing up and/or sharing

2.6.0 -

Dec 12, 2023

- Added option to update layer names when renaming text layers

2.5.1 -

Nov 17, 2023

- Fixed version number mismatch issue

2.5.0 -

Sep 7, 2023

- Added option to skip locked layers

2.4.0 -

Aug 21, 2023

- Changed number of presets to 20 (from 10) and recents to 10 (from 5).

- Updated license framework to 4.1.5

2.3.9 -

Apr 18, 2023

- made online activation period more graceful

- Updated license framework to v4.1.4

2.3.8 -

Nov 14, 2022

- Updated license framework

2.3.7 -

Oct 18, 2022

- Updated license framework

- Fixed macOS Monterey crashing bug

- Improved support and better error messaging for online activation

- Fixed 'ExtComms' error handling

- Improved folder handling to avoid dropbox error on macOS all together

2.3.6 -

Jan 19, 2021

- Fixed issue with expressions not updating correctly when using Add Prefix/Suffix mode

2.3.5 -

Nov 9, 2020

- Bug fix for regex empty string replace

2.3.4 -

Oct 5, 2020

- Fixed issues with layer and comp marker renaming

2.3.3 -

Jul 24, 2020

- Fixed issues with multi-line support when using regex

- Fixed issue with undo group mismatch error

2.3 -

Jun 23, 2019

- Added multi-line support

-Fixed selected properties bug

2.2.1 -

May 6, 2019

- Fixed selected comps in project panel bug

2.2 -

Dec 4, 2018

- Added changeCase Option

- Fixed icon for multiple search pairs

2.1.4 -

Feb 6, 2018

- Fixed issue with layer detection for [compname] tag

2.1.3 -

Jan 17, 2018

- Added error handling for regex in case of bad syntax

2.1.2 -

Dec 19, 2017

- Fixed bug with saving/loading presets

2.1 -

Nov 9, 2017

- Added "Rename" only option

- Added Layer and Comp Marker scope

- Added ability to have negative increments in "num" and "inc" keywords

2.0.1 -

Jul 17, 2017

Minor bug fixes

2.0 -

Jul 8, 2017

Initilal release

Compatibility

After Effects

2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015

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Updated: Oct 21, 2025 1:35 AM