Prism 2

Prism is a tool that grants you greater control over your layer and item labels, leaving your projects much easier to work with and keep sane.

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Description

Colour Each Colour Each

Assigns each layer/item the same label colour. Click the button again to cycle the colour.

Alternate function (hold alt): Assigns each layer/item a different label colour. When you've run out of labels, it repeats them!

Colour by Hierarchy Colour by Hierarchy

Assign the same colour to all layers in the same parent chain.

Project Items: Colours items based on nested / precomp depth.

Colour by Type Colour by Type

Assign the same colour to all layers/items of the same type.

Colour by Name Colour by Name

Assign the same label to all layers/items that share a prefix.

Choose from "Left" & "Right", "L"/"R", or a custom delimiter.

Colour Masks Colour Masks

Assigns each mask the same label colour. Click the button again to cycle the colour.

Alternate function (hold alt): Assigns each mask a different label colour. When you've run out of labels, it repeats them!

Options Options

Set up your Active Labels, Banked Labels and many other Prism options.


New to Prism 2.0!

  • Adds 'Colour Masks' button
  • Adds ability to colour project items
  • Adds colour swatches beside every label name
  • Adds 'skip locked layer/mask' toggle
  • Adds 'skip unmatched layer/mask' toggle
  • Adds a few 'colour by delimiter' native behaviors for character rigs
  • Adds option to cycle start label colour
  • Adds shift+click when reordering label banks to move to top/bottom
  • Adds shift+click when resetting labels to set active labels to ALL labels
  • Fixes bug with non-English AE installs not loading custom label colours
  • Other minor bug fixes
  • Stability improvements

Prism is a collaboration between Andrew Embury and Zack Lovatt.


Headless Version

Standard users should only be concerned with installing the file main to their ScriptUI folder, which will give you a dockable toolbar. However, if you use something like kbar or Quick Menu, you may want to be able to use our buttons directly without the real estate that yet another panel provides.

To this end, we've included a separate file for each button that you can run directly via your script launcher.

To open the options, hold 'ctrl' or 'cmd' when launching the script.

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Version History

2.1.1 -

Oct 20, 2021

• Fixed error when saving prefs with no labels in either Active or Bank

• Fixed error when running Prism with AE Beta

2.1.0 -

Oct 14, 2021

• Updated Licensing

• Improved UI functionality

• Fixed Project Items not being coloured if in a subfolder

2.0.3 -

Jul 19, 2021

• Updated licensing

2.0.2 -

Oct 21, 2019

- Adds MacOS Catalina support

2.0.1 -

Dec 14, 2017

- Adds shift+click when moving to active to move ALL to active

- Adds shift+click when moving to bank to move ALL to bank

- Adds shift+click when resetting labels to swap ACTIVE with BANK

- Adds alt+click when clicking 'move up' or 'move down' to reverse the label order

- Fixes images being saved in wrong directory on MacOS

- Fixes 'delimiter' text field changing size

- Fixes 'delimiter' being editable when its radio button is not selected

- Fixes round nubbins in options panel on MacOS

- Fixes error with headless 'colour by name' button

2.0.0 -

May 21, 2017

Adds 'Colour Masks' button

Adds ability to colour project items

Adds colour swatches beside every label name

Adds 'skip locked layer/mask' toggle

Adds 'skip unmatched layer/mask' toggle

Adds a few 'colour by name' native behaviors for character rigs

Adds option to cycle start label colour

Adds shift+click when reordering label banks to move to top/bottom

Adds shift+click when resetting labels to set active labels to ALL

labels

Fixes bug with non-English AE not loading custom label colours

Other minor bug fixes

Stability improvements

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

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