Changelog

0.41 — 8 November 2026

• Blur logos. New key: finds the score, the channel logo and the league logo of the selected clip and blurs them along their exact shape, on one adjustment layer above the clip.
• Remove BG. New key: cuts a person or an object out of a clip or a picture, on your computer. Windows only for now.
• What's new. After an update the panel shows what changed.

0.40.5 — 23 October 2026

• Unique precomp. New key: gives the selected precomp layer its own copy of the precomp, so changes to the copy do not touch the original. Nested precomps are copied too.
• Presets no longer fail with an error when applied to several clips.

0.40 — 18 October 2026

• Face tracking. It finds smaller faces and keeps the person you chose. The head size is picked for you, so the Small, Medium and Large buttons are gone. The precomp no longer opens after tracking.
• Reversed clips. Adjustment, Stagger, Fit to layer end, Freeze, Watermark and Presets now work on clips reversed with Time-Reverse Layer.
• Download no longer gets stuck on Working.
• Updates always finish complete.

0.39.8 — 17 October 2026

• Stay signed in. You are no longer asked to sign in again after a few days.

0.39.7 — 14 October 2026

• Easing for 2 or 3 keys. Shape a whole move in the Easing drawer, like the Graph Editor: with 3 keyframes you get one curve per segment, so a valley or a mountain (540 to 454 to 540, 100 to 150 to 100) is one drag. The graph is always visible.
• Flip. Mirrors the curve. With 3 keys it turns a valley into a mountain.
• Your own 3-key presets. Save them as tiles with a small drawing, next to four built-in ones.
• TikTok and Instagram. Links to our accounts in the panel.

0.39.5 — 13 October 2026

• Small panels. Every drawer now adapts to a small panel, with a Back bar to return to the keys.
• Key size. Choose Auto, Small, Medium or Large keys, or drag the slider.
• Face tracking. It keeps the person you picked when someone walks in front of them, and fills short gaps.

0.39 — 12 October 2026

• Face tracking, more reliable and faster. It follows a person through precomps and stays smooth when the face is hidden for a moment.
• Captions is open again for everyone.
• A more compact top bar. The top of the panel takes less space, so you see more keys.
• Uninstall script. The download includes an uninstaller (Uninstall.bat on Windows, Uninstall.command on Mac).

0.38 — 10 October 2026

• Face tracking. A new key. Click the person in a clip and it keeps them in the middle of the frame (Lock), or adds a null that follows their head (Follow), so you can attach text, stickers or effects to it. It runs on your computer and nothing is uploaded. The first time it downloads its engine, about 66 MB. Windows only for now, and it works best when the face is visible.

0.37 — 10 October 2026

• Automatic nulls. Null Object cuts the null to your layer, connects the layer to it, and can chain as many nulls as you want. With nothing selected it makes a base null and the nulls you chose, connected to it.
• Text animations. The Text key animates a new or an existing text layer: Fade, Pop, Slide or Bounce.
• Physics sliders. Strength, Speed and Settle for Overshoot, Bounce and Elastic.
• Pre-compose on reversed layers. It works on layers reversed with Time-Reverse Layer.
• Dragging a key no longer shows the Hide and star buttons under it.

0.35 — 10 October 2026

• Stay signed in. Closing After Effects no longer signs you out.

0.34 — 8 October 2026

• Watermark. A new key. Design your watermark once, save it, and one click adds it to any comp in the same position, cut to the clip you pick. Also works with an image or video file.
• Freeze. Freezes a layer at the playhead, or holds its first or last frame.
• Edge fill. Mirrors the edges of a layer so shakes and zooms never show black.
• Edit keys. Star favourites, hide keys you never use, and repeat your recent keys.
• More stable. The panel recovers from damaged settings and no longer gets stuck while updating. Presets stops searching after a few seconds. Captions tells you why if it fails.

0.33 — 5 October 2026

• Bug fixes. Presets now finds your own presets, even when big packs like BCC are installed.

0.32 — 4 October 2026

• Update animation. While the panel updates, its edges light up and run around, everything is pulled in, and the new version appears. Nothing can be pressed in the meantime.
• Donate. A small, optional Donate link at the bottom of the panel.

0.31 — 4 October 2026

• Saved curves as a library. In Easing, every saved curve is a tile with a small drawing of its curve and its name. Save up to 40; the ✎ in the corner renames or deletes it.

0.30 — 3 October 2026

• New look. Every key is a dark tile with its own icon and a colour per kind of job, like compact mode. Options open right under the key you pressed.
• Cleaner menus. New dropdowns, sliders and lists, shorter hints, no sideways scrolling.
• Presets and Plugins. After you pick one, the list folds down to your choice. Folder names read normally. "Place at" is now one tap: Auto, Start, End, Stretch, Playhead.
• Captions. Captions land exactly where you place them (top, middle or bottom) and stay inside the frame.
• Beat Marker removed for now. It was not accurate enough. A better one is coming.

0.29.1 — 30 September 2026

• Updates. The panel now updates itself on the sign-in screen too, before you sign in.

0.29 — 30 September 2026

• Sign in with one click. The panel mails you a link: click Activate my panel and the panel opens by itself, no code to type.
• Download. The first download asks for a 6-digit code sent to your email, so every mail reaches you.

0.28.2 — 29 September 2026

• Sign-in. 3 tries for each code, and a Resend code button that is always there if the mail didn't arrive.

0.28.1 — 29 September 2026

• Your name. Accounts without a name are asked once, after signing in, what to call you: a name or a TikTok nickname.

0.28 — 29 September 2026

• Sign-in. Signing in now confirms your email: the panel sends you a link, the link shows a code, you type it in the panel. Everyone confirms once after updating.
• Links. Guide and site links open vsvxfx.com.

0.27 — 29 September 2026

• Un-pre-compose. New key next to Pre-compose: the layers inside the selected precomps come back into the comp, same stack spot, order and times. Works on several precomps at once.
• Resizing. Smoother panel resize, with a soft motion blur and keys that pop in when switching between wide and compact.

0.26 — 27 September 2026

• Compact mode. Drag the panel narrow and the keys become a column of coloured icons that work in one click: keys with options repeat the last thing you ran from them, Keyframes fits to the layer end.
• Keyframes. The tools now work on every selected effect, also with plugins like Twixtor.
• Plugins. Use as source takes the effects you selected in Effect Controls, or all of them, and Copy to all copies every one.
• Presets. New presets show up by themselves, no Rescan needed.
• Options. The panel remembers every option you set, between sessions.

0.25.1 — 26 September 2026

• Mac: Captions and Download. Both keys now work on Mac (Apple Silicon and Intel). The first time, the panel fetches the Mac speech engine and downloader by itself.
• Mac installer. Install.command now opens right away (it came without permission to run).

0.25 — 26 September 2026

• Plugins. New key. Put an effect or plugin on every selected clip, animate it on one, then Copy to all: settings and keyframes, ease included, fitted to each clip (start to end, same timing from the start, or up to the end).
• Clear Effects. New key. Removes every effect from all the selected layers in one click.
• Download. The file now comes in exactly as the site has it: best quality up to 1080p at its original frame rate, never re-encoded. No quality picker any more. Add to comp now reliably lands on the timeline at the playhead. If a site suddenly asks for a login, the panel updates the downloader and tries again by itself.

0.24 — 26 September 2026

• Effects and plugins in Presets. The Presets list now also has every effect and plugin installed in After Effects (Reverb, Gaussian Blur, Twixtor, Sapphire…). Pick one and Apply adds it to every selected layer at once; layers that can't take it (an audio effect on a layer without sound) are skipped.
• Guide. A Guide button at the top of the panel opens the explanation of every key in your browser.
• Download fix. Videos with an unusual or changing frame rate now arrive at a standard frame rate, so the sound stays in sync in After Effects.

0.23 — 24 September 2026

• Download. New key. Paste a TikTok, YouTube or Instagram link, pick MP4 (720p to 4K) or MP3, and the file lands in your project, already imported — on the timeline at the playhead if you like. Video comes in as H.264, so After Effects always opens it. Windows for now.
• Beat Marker marks the hits. Instead of a steady grid it now finds the sounds you'd actually cut on, a hair before the peak, the way editors mark by ear. New Fewer / Auto / More choice for how many. Typing a BPM still gives you the even grid.
• Beat Marker fixes. One loud hit at the start of a track no longer wipes out the markers after it, and fast sped-up tracks no longer get a marker on every single hit.

0.22 — 22 September 2026

• Captions. New key. Pick the audio layer, press it, and the panel writes your subtitles as text layers with the right timing. It listens on your own computer — no account, no upload, no cost. Choose one word at a time up to a full line, any installed font, size, colour, shadow, outline or a box behind the text, where they sit, and an entrance animation. Windows for now; Mac follows.
• Nicer options. Every key's options panel is easier to read: labels above the controls, everything full width.
• New keys join at the end. If you had rearranged your keys, a new one no longer jumps to the top.

0.21 — 21 September 2026

• Mac. The download now includes Install.command for macOS. Same panel, same keys. First Mac release — tell me what breaks.

0.20 — 20 September 2026

• Sign-in and updates are faster and more reliable.
• Offline: the panel keeps working for 3 days without a connection.
• Installed 0.18 or 0.19? Download once more from the site — from 0.20 on, updates are automatic again.

0.19 — 20 September 2026

• Keyframes: Fit to layer end / Align / Stretch / Reverse now handle keyframes on several properties and effects in one click (they used to stop after the first one). Effect parameters without easing no longer break the command.
• Position: the 3×3 grid is back — the drawer had lost its buttons in 0.17/0.18.
• Presets: "Auto" fits the whole layer unless the preset name says In/Out. Adjustment Layer: "One per selected layer".
• Physics expressions no longer block Position / Anchor Point.

0.18 — 20 September 2026

• Auto-update: the panel now updates itself when it opens — no more downloading new versions.
• Presets drawer with more breathing room; Adjustment Layer "One per selected layer"; Presets "Auto" fits the whole layer unless the name says In/Out.

0.17 — 20 September 2026

• Beat Marker rebuilt: real audio analysis in the panel (spectral onsets, bar-based tempo, grid lock). Markers land on the hits that matter. Works on MP3, WAV and video files; falls back to After Effects' analysis for formats it can't decode.
• Sync to beats: lay the selected clips end to end on the beat markers (every 1 / 2 / 4 beats, bottom→top or top→bottom).
• Presets key: search Effects & Presets (.ffx, including your User Presets), favorites, apply to every selected clip with smart placement (auto / in / out / stretch / playhead) that keeps the preset's easing.
• Easing presets: rename / delete inline. Keys: drag by the corner grip to reorder; ⋯ or right-click for options, plain click runs.
• Beat markers are now named 1, 2, 3…
• Update: Presets "Auto" now fits the whole layer unless the name says In/Out; Adjustment Layer gets "One per selected layer".

0.15 — 20 September 2026

• Sign in: the panel now asks for the email you used to download. One time, then it remembers you.
• Layers key: Cut at playhead on all selected layers; fit to comp Width / Height / Fit; Center.
• Keyframes key: Align to playhead, Fit to layer end, Reverse, Stretch — all keep the easing curve shape, like Alt-drag.
• Physics: Overshoot, Bounce and Elastic as one-click expressions, removable with one click.
• Stagger key: one after another (default, bottom → top) or N frames apart.
• Easing: save your own presets (rename / delete inline), Read selection, "All keys on layers", Overshoot & Anticipate presets.
• Your layout: drag any key by the grip in its corner to reorder; options open with ⋯ or right-click, a plain click just runs.
• Softer animations everywhere.

0.12 — 19 September 2026

• New look: soft "cloud" theme, renamed to VSVX Softkeys.
• Pre-compose keeps the exact clip span (no more lost last frame) and no longer crashes on locked or oddly timed layers. New Each separately mode.
• Beat Marker: Keep % slider to keep only the strongest beats, plus Clear beats.
• Easing editor shows the speed curve as a shaded area, live while you drag.
• New Easy Ease key (F9).
• One-click installer, compatible with After Effects 2019 and newer.

0.11 — September 2026

• First private test build (VSVX Shortcuts).