Swiss Knife

Swiss Knife is a group of 20 tools that can be combined in thousands of variations.

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Description

Swiss Knife it is one tool and unlimited possibilities

Play with 4 groups including parallaxer, interactor, placeholder and support.

Use it for any kind of projects, character animation, video editing, templates, UI/UX animation

Parallax

The main purpose of this group of tools is to allow you make parallax animation as easier, as possible.

  • Parallax 2D will make fake parallax effect with 2D layers, if you don't want to go to 3D.

  • Parallax 3D makes true 3D distribution between Near and Far Distances, which you can type manually.

  • Extruder main feature is that you can make extrude from placeholders.

  • Stack is a huge option, which allows you to make linear stacks in 2D or 3D space.

Interaction

Interactions is very helpful to make interdependent animations.

  • Dependence is a wonderful tool which allows you to put any animation in dependence of any other property.

  • Interactor put your animation in dependence of positions between last selected layer and others.

  • Animarker allows you to put your animation in dependence of markers.

  • Offset animates all parameters on the same value, but with time delay.

  • Revolver take rotation of the objects and links to the main object


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Placeholder

Allows you to optimize, probably, your every day’s routine.

  • Placeholder allows you to use shape layers or picture layers as placeholders to any stack of footages.

  • Piner put your image in dependence of selected path vertices

  • Switcher puts all selected layers to precompose, crop precompose to biggest layer in it and turns on Time Remap.

  • Alpha Matte clones very top selected layer as Alpha Matte to all others.

  • Slideshow allows you to make simpliest slideshow in precompose.

Support

Support functions is a suit of different functions witch helps you with your projects.

  • Reorder will reverse your order. By Click there is simple reverse of order of selected layers.

  • Bake will bakes your expressions to keys and optimize them as possible.

  • Tangents is simple tool to make position moves with proper arcs.

  • Resize is a wonderful tool. It will help you to make all selected layers (or items) the same size.

  • Slice is beautiful. It’s slices the layer on the pieces, it has it’s own menu, just click on it and you will see.

  • Swap is very interesting and variable tool. It changing source off selected layers with just click.

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Examples

demo1 demo6 demo2
demo3 demo4 demo5

Discussions

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Version History

1.2.3 -

Dec 15, 2025

Updated license framework to v4.4.2

1.2.2 -

Apr 1, 2025

- Placeholder: fix precompose functionality if the layer has a parent layer, and better handling complex parenting connections in the composition

- Fix for empty error on startup

- Updated license framework to v4.3.2

1.2.1 -

Sep 18, 2024

- Fix incorrect adding 2D parallax

- Fix incorrect applying Placeholder function

1.2.0 -

Aug 15, 2024

- Fix Separate Dimensions problem in Parallax 3D function

1.1.9 -

Dec 1, 2022

Fixed issue, when script might give an error, if dimensions on position of morphing layers were separated

1.1.8b -

Aug 19, 2022

- Improved support and better error messaging for online activation

- Updated license framework to v4.01.000

1.1.8a -

Mar 7, 2022

Fixed "Corrupted data" error in aescripts manager app, which didn't allow to update script

1.1.7 -

Jul 14, 2020

- Fixed 'Unable to execute script at line' error on some windows systems

1.1.6 -

Jun 15, 2020

License framework update

1.1.5 -

Dec 12, 2019

Catalina compatibility update

1.1.4 -

Oct 11, 2019

license update

1.1.3 -

Jan 13, 2019

Placeholdel fix & some minor changes

1.1.2 -

Jun 12, 2018

Some small fixes

1.1.1 -

Jun 9, 2018

Fixed: independent colors on Extruder now works properly

1.1 -

Jun 6, 2018

Fixed, when parallax 2D pseudoeffect wasn't created

1.0 -

May 30, 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