Effect Matte

Effect Matte adds a perfectly sized and customizable matte to your layer, removing the need for an additional layer to act as a track matte.

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Description

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Matting in AE is tedious

Effect Matte does the hard work for you in a single click.

Customise and animate these parameters:

  • Expansion (both positive and negative)
  • Roundness
  • Feathering

You can even manually tweak the bounds of the matte.

There's also a transform tab that's % based so you can create transitions in seconds.

Requirements & limitations:

  • Effect Matte is compatible with layers that have parents, but only on CC2018.
  • Effect Matte requires layers to have continuous rasterization enabled.
  • "Auto Set Matte" feature is not compatible with shape layers.

Effect Matte is compatible with AE CS6 and up, 32bpc color, with text and video layers. Mac users please note OSX version 10.8 and higher is required

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Version History

1.4.0 -

Mar 15, 2025

- Fix MFR rendering stability

1.3.9 -

Nov 20, 2022

- Fixed buffer issue

- Improved support for online activation

- Better error messaging for online activation issues

1.3.8 -

Jun 12, 2022

- Update license framework

1.3.7 -

Feb 15, 2022

v1.3.7

- Update license framework

- Add native support for ARM chips (apple silicon)

1.3.6 -

Oct 5, 2021

- Fixed bug when matte is disabled

1.3.5 -

Mar 17, 2021

- Support for multi-frame rendering (MFR) and AE2021

- Fix dropshadow offset bug

1.3.3 -

Apr 16, 2020

- Updated licensing framework

1.3.2 -

Mar 21, 2020

- Compatibility fix with AE v17.0.5

1.3 -

Jun 24, 2019

- Matte auto-sets when applied to a layer

- Added invert matte option

- Consolidated different versions into the one binary

1.2 -

Aug 16, 2018

Misc bugfixes

1.1 -

Mar 6, 2018

Fix watermark bug

1.0 -

Mar 2, 2018

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6