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After Effects
Motion Tools Pro
Make After Effects work for you. The ultimate command center with powerful tools, widgets, and expressions all in one place.
Transform your After Effects workflow with Motion Tools Pro – a command center offering one-click access to essential tools. Save hours on repetitive tasks with customizable panels, interactive widgets, and dozens of scripts and expressions in a modern, adaptive interface.
Fully Customizable Panels
Create layouts that work for you with our simple grid system. Adjust colors, icons, and spacing to design a workspace that feels right for your projects.
Smart Widgets
Interactive controls that go beyond basic buttons. Clone keyframes, create custom easing, manage color palettes, position anchor points, sequence animations, and even optimize GIFs.
Dozens of Built-in Scripts
Access over 30 useful scripts for animation, rigging, shapes, and workflow. Speed up daily tasks with tools like Easy Keyframes, Easings Manager, and more.
Expressions Library
Work with After Effects expressions easily using our built-in editor. Create, save, and apply expressions to your properties with a single click.
Script Organization
Keep all your scripts in one place. Add your own via drag-and-drop for linking files or manually add code to the scripts/expression editor.
Multi-panel Support
Use up to four panels at once, each with its own layout. Create dedicated workspaces for animation, organization, and other specific tasks.
How does it work?
Motion Tools Pro gives you a grid-based interface to organize your tools, scripts, and expressions. With four independent panels available, you can customize each layout for different tasks - whether it's animation, organization, or project management.
Aescripts Version Notice
Important: This aescripts version of Motion Tools Pro does not support activation and integration of extended extensions (Super3d and Motion Tweaks).
The full version with extended extensions support is available on the Motion Design School platform for users who need these additional capabilities.
Learn Motion Tools Pro
Getting Started - Extension Overview
Get started with Motion Tools Pro and discover the power of this comprehensive After Effects extension. This foundational tutorial walks you through the interface, core features, and essential workflows to help you maximize your productivity from day one.
Tutorial - Styling
Learn how to transform Motion Tools Pro with custom styling! This tutorial covers personalizing your workspace with custom backgrounds, icons, and the new Rive animations. Discover how to create distinctive layouts, use the Theme Editor, and optimize performance while making your extension truly yours. Perfect for After Effects users looking to enhance their workflow with a beautiful, functional interface.
Tutorial - Custom Tools and Code Editor
Learn how to create custom tools and expressions in Motion Tools Pro! This comprehensive tutorial covers the built-in code editor with professional features like syntax highlighting, multi-cursor editing, and powerful workflow enhancements. Discover expression controls, sync mode, property collections, and smart import features that will improve your After Effects workflow.
Discussions
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Version History
2.1.1 -
Mar 27, 2026
- FIXED: Fixed null positioning when selected layers already have a parent
Physics Widget:
- NEW: Forces — add wind, explosion, attraction, and turbulence force fields that push, pull, and scatter objects during the simulation, with animated strength and radius
- NEW: Container Bounds — hollow layers act as collision walls for layers inside them
- NEW: Wrap Bounds — dynamic bodies reappear on the opposite side after exiting the comp
- NEW: Soft Kinematic Mode — layers follow keyframes with spring force while still responding to collisions
- NEW: Animated Scale — scaling bodies push other objects and transfer momentum on collision
- NEW: Per-layer Density support in Physics Properties
- NEW: Compound Bodies — parent-child layer groups are treated as a single rigid body
- NEW: Debug Visualization — toggle to see collision boundaries as shape overlays directly in the comp
- NEW: Auto-selects all layers when nothing is selected, so you can run the simulation immediately
- IMPROVED: Faster simulations and cleaner timelines — trimmed layers only participate while they're visible
- IMPROVED: Adaptive vertex scaling — larger shapes automatically get more collision vertices for better accuracy
- IMPROVED: Default Gravity is now 150% and max Gravity is 400%
- FIXED: Force layers now stay aligned when parented, even with custom anchor points, scaling, and rotation
- FIXED: More stable results for animated scale and non-centered anchors (less drifting in applied keyframes)
- FIXED: Improved reliability for complex concave shapes and rotated polygons
- FIXED: Handles duplicate layer names correctly
Distribution Widget:
- NEW: Prevent-overlap option to avoid layer overlapping during distribution
- NEW: Color palette picker for Random Colors mode
- FIXED: Selected layers now take priority over random primitives
- FIXED: Path guide sampling now matches what you see, even when the guide layer is parented
- FIXED: Better placement for parented layers, so distributed duplicates land where you expect
Ease Copy:
- NEW: Improved Responsive layouts
- IMPROVED: Polished modal UI and overall visual design
- FIXED: Clipboard data no longer lost when resizing the panel
SuperGif:
- FIXED: Fixed settings loading when configuration file is corrupted
Text Splitter:
- FIXED: Fixed control character handling
2.1.0 -
Jan 27, 2026
- Physics Widget - Add realistic physics with gravity, bounce, friction, collision. Supports shapes, masks, and AE 2026 3D meshes
- Distribution Widget - Generate point patterns (Grid, Poisson, Fibonacci, Spiral, Radial) and fill with layer duplicates
- Text Splitter - Split text layers into characters, words, or lines
- Easings Manager - Easing Sets: organize presets into collections with export/import
- Script Settings - Configure settings for individual scripts directly from the Settings panel
- Share Center - Export and import your Motion Tools setup as a single portable file
Improvements
- Documentation links now open on tools.motiondesign.school
- Easings Manager: improved preset editor layout
- Expressions Library: property badges + new Property/Requirements filters
- Super3D Widget: updated to match v1.4.6
Bug Fixes
- Super3D Widget: built-in shapes and material selection fixed
- Easings Manager: stability with older versions, linear keyframe curves
- Expressions Library: button alignment, filter dropdown z-index
2.0.16 -
Dec 26, 2025
Expressions Library
- Motion Beast Collection (10 expressions) now pre-installed as default
- Added 4 new downloadable collections
Rive Player
- Fixed animations not displaying when loading local .riv files
- Artboard and state machine selections now stay selected
- Added ability to rename and delete custom packs
General
- Fixed notification "Clear all" button lingering after toasts auto-close
BUG FIXES
Easy Keyframes
- Alt/Shift modifiers restored for Hold and Auto-Bezier
- Updated tooltips to show correct shortcuts
Parent Null
- Fixed incorrect positioning when layers have expressions
- Fixed positioning when selecting rotated null layers
- Fixed bounding box calculation for rotated layers
Easings Manager
- Fixed easing copy/paste for 3D layers, color properties, and complex keyframe types
- Fixed easing behavior for motion paths and roving keyframes
- Better support for auto-bezier and continuous keyframes
Crop Comp
- Fixed cropping accuracy for thin lines and rotated shapes
- Fixed excessive padding on thin stroke layers
- Layers with expressions now maintain correct positions after cropping
- Added support for Separate Dimensions position properties
- Fixed 3D comps with cameras now crop correctly
- No longer fails on comps with cameras, lights, or audio layers
- Improved performance (~2x faster) while maintaining accuracy
UnPreComp
- Fixed errors when precomp contains light layers
- Layers with expressions now maintain correct positions
2.0.15 -
Dec 12, 2025
2.0.14 -
Dec 9, 2025
- Added Social Media Widget with format specifications and 2025 safe zones
Updated:
- Updated "Bake Expressions": adaptive expressions to keyframes functionality. Shift+Click for classic mode
- Updated "Crop Comp" description with hotkey shortcuts: Alt+Click for separate crop per layer
- Updated to AEScripts licensing framework v4.1.12
Improvements:
- Default panel setup now seeds four independent "Motion Tools Layout" copies (one per panel) so changing one panel's layout no longer affects the others by default
- Added tooltip to layout names in Layouts settings to show full name on hover
- Changed "Minimalistic" theme to use dark background instead of light
- Expression Editor: improved AE expression completions and contextual sourceRectAtTime .top/.left/.width/.height suggestions
- Expression Editor: enabled word-based variable suggestions in the editor (currentDocument scope)
- Expression Editor: enhanced property path resolution and pick-whip handling so entire layer paths are returned
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed layout form not updating when switching between layouts with identical appearance (title now updates correctly)
- Fixed Ease Copy: handle multi-property selection by copying the first available property instead of failing
- Fixed crop script issue
- Fixed duplicate dots and sanitized layer/group names in generated paths in the Expression Editor
- Fixed duplicate registration of suggestion providers in the Expression Editor
- Fixed Expression Editor autocomplete for sourceRectAtTime with contextual .top/.left/.width/.height suggestions
- Fixed minor UI issues
2.0.13 -
Oct 7, 2025
- Collect Colors Palette:
- Polished compact UI
- Fixed color deletion from Sets settings using Alt-click. Fixed hover state indication when Alt key is pressed
- Fixed vertical scrolling
- Added a new "Reset Layout" action in the layout settings that performs a full reset, including styles and button layouts, to restore everything to default settings
- Fixed: SuperGif ffmpeg link that was broken. Replaced with a functional new one
2.0.12 -
Sep 17, 2025
- New: Drag-and-drop functionality for quick convert
- Fixed rendering in the project paths containing non-Latin symbols
2.0.11 -
Aug 20, 2025
- Improved: Better handling of downloading processes across all extension components
2.0.10 -
Aug 5, 2025
- Fixed: Issues with adding the Collect Palette Widget to layouts
- Crop Comp: Fixed errors with layers that have Separate Dimensions enabled
2.0.9 -
Jul 22, 2025
- New: Authors Expression Collections
- Improved: Gallery UI and layout
- Added: Tags filtering for better navigation
- Removed: Categories for simplicity (tags used instead)
- Added: Toggle to show only user-created expressions
- Added: Edit button for user expressions
- Added: Simpler form for adding custom expressions (unique ID auto-generated)
- Added: External code editor synchronization for expressions
Code Editor
- Replaced CodeMirror with Monaco editor (better UI/UX)
- Added: External editor synchronization
- Improved: Collections now match compositions by ID, not name
- Added: Detection and reconnection options for missing layers in collections
- Improved: Visual polish and editor theme
- Added: Shortcuts helper panel
- Fixed: Enter key now works correctly in autosuggestions
Scripts Fixes
- Improved handling of keyframes with color labels in scripts: Sequencer, Clone, Fix Keys Time
Move Anchor Point
- New: Holding Shift while clicking Center Anchor executes "Center Anchor Point in Layer Content" for more accurate 3D positioning
Collect Colors Widget
- New: Settings tab for layout and button size
- Added: Option to switch between Dynamic and Fixed color button layouts
- Added: New UI for Generate Colors for more control
- Improved: Context menu with additional copy actions
Easings Manager
- Improved: Easings now paste to all selected keyframes even if keyframe counts differ
- Fixed: Applying 2D/3D easings to 4D properties (e.g., colors)
Other Improvements
- Optimized: Script library performance and structure
- Fixed: Clone script now cleans up keyframes more efficiently
- Fixed: Collect Colors script expression setting issue
- Fixed: Performance of Collect Colors and its widget when collecting many colors
2.0.8 -
Jun 21, 2025
- Improved Speed Graph in the Easing presets
- Enhanced easing information displayed when hovering over presets
- Super Gif widget: New installation libraries modal window now provides better visibility into background processes
Extension:
- Added more help tooltips to the styling actions
- Additional information about linked files for custom scripts
- Fixed: Settings button in the top left corner now properly opens the current panel and related layout in the Content Settings
- Fixed: Changing layout styling with multiple open panels causes values to reset to default
- Fixed: Improved synchronization between multiple panels during startup. Previously, there were issues with layouts resetting.
- Fixed: Selector widget selects all paths in the composition instead of in the selected layer
- Fixed: Crop Comp shows error when attempting to crop compositions containing camera or light layers
2.0.7 -
Jun 11, 2025
- Polish widgets UI
- Implemented keyframe data validation and added auto-fix for a rare issue when stored keyframe data is corrupted
- Fixed import custom scripts functionality
- Fixed Add script button displaying on empty layout
- Fixed panels sync after creating new layouts
- Fixed: In some cases, changing layouts in the second panel caused errors in another panel
2.0.6 -
Jun 10, 2025
- Optimized Expressions editor performance
- Enhanced expression control creation with relative paths and sync-aware multi-layer support
- Improved Pick tool with Alt+click for relative paths
- Fixed expression error checking in sync mode
- Fixed indexOf error
- Fixed Windows copy/paste and keyboard shortcuts
2.0.5 -
Jun 9, 2025
Compatibility
After Effects
2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022
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