Guides

Quickly and easily create and manipulate guides inside After Effects

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  • Trial
Description

What is it?

Guides script for After Effects adds more power when working with guides inside the app, such as copy/pasting guides around multiple compositions, moving, rotating, saving, quickly adding guides around layers, and more.

Features

  • Set the state of the Lock Guides, Snap to Guides, Show Guides for multiple compositions.
  • Copy/paste guides across multiple compositions or layers.
  • Save/apply guides for later use or to share with a team.
  • Clear guides across multiple compositions.
  • Rotate and move guides horizontally or vertically.
  • Add guides at the edge, or the center of the composition or a layer.
  • Griddify compositions or layers by adding guides every X pixels.
  • Add guides by dividing compositions or layers into X peaces.
  • Wrap guides around the edges of compositions or layers.

Notes

  • Guides is compatible with After Effects CC2019 and later.
  • The trial version of Guides is fully functional for 7 days. Please test the script prior to purchasing a full license.

Discussions

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Version History

1.1 -

Jan 4, 2025

Added:



- Option to round position value to whole pixels when adding a new guide

- Option to prevent adding duplicate guides if a guide exists within a given position threshold





Changed:



- Licensing framework

1.0 -

May 25, 2020

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019