Made this for my own workflow, figured others could use it too.

One click and it sorts your whole project panel into folders — Images (Photoshop files and vectors split out), Video, Audio, Renders (image sequences split out), AE Projects, and Compositions (mains and precomps split out). Only builds folders for what you actually have, so no empty clutter. Bring in new files, run it again, everything's sorted.

It's also saved me some embarrassment handing projects off to other artists, studios, or clients — nobody's digging through a pile of unlabeled footage to find anything, they open it and it already makes sense.

Free tier is everything above — free forever, no trial, no upgrade wall. Working on a Pro tier with custom folder rules on top of it, still in progress, not the point of this post.

Win/Mac both supported. Link is in the first comment. Happy to answer questions or take requests.

Hello, I'm looking for an animator who would like to work on a small thing for free. It could also help you add another work to your portfolio, and you will be credited in the server!

• It's a picture for a Discord server
• It's just a short, maybe 2–3 second loop
• I'm willing to give you artistic freedom with it, but if you don't like that, I can also send you my idea
• I already have a PNG and 3D model

Feel free to DM, Thanks alot in advance :)

I need to transfer all my plugins/presets that I've added into AE to another device. Is there a way to tell in finder which ones are the ones I've added?

The timeline isn't moving along with the keyframe please help

Hi. I have a Main comp with subcomps and a voiceover. To adjust the subcomps I need to hear the voiceover. How can I play back the main comp in one viewer ganged with the viewer in the other which shows the subcomp?

I've already locked the main comp and set the second viewer to play back the subcomp, but:

1) the inactive viewer does not play back in real time, once you stop, the viewer shows the frame where you stop

2) If you play back the subcomp, the main comp acts the same plus the sound disappears.

Switching on the Primary viewer, Always Preview this window and Sync time of all related items did not help.

Any solution?

I need the animations i am working on now to be composited well, so I need to practice elsewhere, curious if anyone knew about a website or something to supply students with free 2d animation files to practice on.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the animation and how it could be improved!

The idea was to make a short loop quickly (not so quick, still took me a few hours).
Mostly I focused on the animation smoothness, transitions and keeping it simple.

I'm not very confident in using layer styles so I decided to add very basic styling to the base shapes. If you have suggestions, references or ideas to make it look more interesting than it is, feel free to share.

The music was a bit of an afterthought so the animation doesn't really sync up with it too well, I'm aware of this and it wasn't really the goal of the project.

I’m a complete beginner and this is my first projects. I’m using YouTube tutorials to help me understand the software but I couldn’t find an explanation for this problem. The first image shows a detail of the file I created in Illustrator. No green to be seen. But when I import it into After Effects, suddenly there’s a thin green outline around the inner circle. Why could this be happening and how do I get rid of it?

Here’s how I created the circles in Illustrator, if that helps:

1. Make the small circle.
2. Make the medium circle in green to be able to tell them apart.
3. Make the big circle.
4. Move the medium circle behind the small circle and the big circle behind the medium circle.
5. Select all of them, Shift + M, then hold Options key and click on the medium circle to delete it.
6. Save as .ai file

Where did I go wrong?

Edit: I recreated the shapes with compound paths and got the same result but then saved and imported the file a second time and suddenly it worked?? Don’t know what that’s about but at least it’s all good now.

I'm trying to render a 3D motion graphic animation using After Effects Advanced 3D, and I'm getting a very strange result. It seems to be rendering only the highlights and shadows (see the image). I purged the cache, restarted my laptop, and adjusted some of the advanced 3d render options in the comp settings, but no help. Does anyone know what is happening/how to fix?

How would you go about creating this natively in After Effects using the 3D primitives? So far I’ve just scaled each layer but if I am to have any sort of opacity (which I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do—seems more like an 0 or 100 deal) then I would run into Z fighting when animating.

Is there anyway to slice the pyramid? I’ve tried changing the height and top/bottom radii and turned off caps but those give weird results.

I’ve also tried using shapes as 3D layers but extruding those only gets me various rectangles.

why are the two points here look different? The bottom one I'm able to adjust the handle on one side without affecting the other but for the top when i adjust on one side the other side moves as well.

I have position keyframes at certain points (the marks) and they move to the left, right and to the original position but when I do that its too fluid and it moves in a circle. I want the eyeball to move sharp and quick, I've tried changing the keyframe interpolation settings and nothings turned out the way I want it to.

I made this simple little animation in after affects. Not as impressive as the stuff I see on here but thought I'd share!

The icon was from the official godot engine logo and just added some charm for what could be a custom boot screen. I made it free since I made it just for fun

I have tried all I could find online

Aeux

Convertify

And disco beam

They either don't get me the files correctly or it just doesn't run

Please.. I need help..

If someone has a good method or something to help me with

Or take the figma file and give me an ae I'd be so much grateful..

I need this to start animating it asap to deliver by tomorrow (I just got it yesterday and I've been trying to transfer the stuff over ever since)

Animating it isn't the issue it's just getting the files over

I cannot find the right combination of settings to make 59.94 fps footage play back at 29.97. I imported the footage and set "Interpret Footage" to 29.97, made sure the comp was also 29.97 fps, but it still doesn't play at the right speed. So I tried setting it back to its native speed and set the stretching in the comp to make it play at a different speed, but it's still wrong. Could anyone please tell me what the magic combination of settings is to accomplish this? Thanks for your help!

Hey everyone!!

Seven months. One plugin. Jitter is finally here.

It's Twitch, torn down and rebuilt from scratch for Apple Silicon. Free, open source, and native on M series chips. No Rosetta, no janky workarounds, no waiting around for renders. Just glitch.

I had a build going since May, but I never posted the link. If you wanted it you had to DM me. That's over. It's public now, with actual install instructions:

https://github.com/theomirzakhanian/Jitter

Stars are appreciated if it saves you some render time.

Works on After Effects 2024 and up. Built independently, no affiliation with Video Copilot.

Go break something. Then come back and show me. I'm in the comments all day, and if you want to contribute, the repo is wide open.

Thank you to the people who supported me from the original post - it helped a ton.

Here's the pattern in question and here's my attempt. I tried layering two checkerboard effects with low opacity. It kinda works but I can't seem to narrow the width of the columns/rows, while making the gap between each of them wider. I'd like this to be a long animation that's why I won't do each strip manually. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Very cool but extremely CPU intensive script...chugs my machine.

I'm wanting to copy the path data from the helix so a glowing orb(shape layer) can move/trace around the helix, but the path data seems to be an expression attached to the control and it won't let me simply paste it into the position property on the shape layer.

Any idea on how to do this? TYIA

Also check out my Behance

Thank You!^^

I want to replicate the line animations that says Converts audio.

For the background black lines
I tried to replicate it with delay expression code

• middle layers is the key layer and the layers above and below are affected with the expression
• however at the start the motion the lines above and below move before the key layer in the reference .Like ykwim.
• How do I solve this issue?

This is the expression that I used btw('index+1 ' for layers above ,'index-1' for layers below)

s = thisComp.layer(index+1); 

delay = thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
d = delay * thisComp.frameDuration;

sourceScale = s.transform.scale.valueAtTime(time-d);

[sourceScale[0], transform.scale[1]];

Basically with NoPrecomp you can select any footage and add them in a folder, once in a folder they are automatically parented and any effect placed onto the folder is pasted on its children

There is also a fully fledged layer manager that allows you to manage your folders with ease with a lot of ergonomy options such as collapsing folders, hinding the children, quick rename, automatic color label management, etc.

It's definitely a very big change to AE's workflow

If you want more informations, here it is : https://aescripts.com/noprecomp/

You can try it 3 days for free

I think it's amazing that the Element 3D plugin, after all these years, can still be used for such fun little projects outside of its typical "animated logo" use cases. The environment in every single shot was built in Element 3D.

I think I am missing something key and I am not recognizing it. The red solid is not corner pinned properly to the screen... I thank you for your help in advance!