Twenty-two keys. Each one does one thing well. Options open with ⋯ or a right-click.
A plain click runs the key with its current options. The ⋯ in the corner (or a right-click) opens the options. Ctrl+Z undoes anything. The Guide button at the top of the panel opens this page.
Pre-composes the selected layers keeping the exact in and out points — no lost last frame, no shifted timing. It works on reversed layers too.
Tip: Combine with Adjustment Layer "One per selected layer" for a per-clip effect stack.
The opposite of Pre-compose, in one click: the layers inside the selected precomp come back into this composition, in the same spot of the stack, in the same order and at the same times. The precomp layer goes away; the precomp itself stays in the Project panel.
It only works on a precomp with no look of its own (no effects, masks, scale, time remap…), so nothing changes on screen. Otherwise it tells you why and leaves everything as it was.
Gives each selected precomp layer its own copy of the precomp, in one click. Edit the copy and the original stays as it was, like the True Comp Duplicator.
Opens a 3×3 grid. Click where the layer should sit in the comp — corners with 5% edge spacing, centre exactly centred. Sets a Position keyframe at the playhead.
Tip: Works with parented layers too; the panel converts into the parent's space.
Same 3×3 grid, but moves the anchor point to that spot on the layer while the layer stays visually in place — for rotating or scaling around a corner.
Tip: Needs static 2D transforms (no keyframes on Anchor/Position).
Creates a solid layer.
Makes nulls and connects them to your layers in one click.
Tip: With several layers selected, each one gets its own nulls above it. Ctrl+Z undoes everything in one step.
Creates an adjustment layer.
Creates a text layer, or animates the text layers you have selected.
Tip: Pressing again replaces the animation. Keyframes you made yourself are never touched.
Transcribes the selected audio and writes the subtitles as text layers, each one timed to the words.
Reckon on about half the clip length.
Paste a link from TikTok, YouTube or Instagram and get the file straight into your project.
If a site suddenly asks for a login, the panel updates the downloader and tries again by itself. Only download what you have the right to use.
Arranges the selected layers in sequence.
Tip: Great for titles, bullet points, icons entering one by one.
F9 on the selected keyframes (33% in / out).
A curve editor with the speed drawn as a shaded area. Drag the handles, pick a preset, Apply on the selected keyframes.
Tip: handles can leave the graph and snap to its edges and corners (hold Alt to move them freely). Overshoot beyond the graph works on Scale / Rotation; on Position the curve is kept inside 0–1 for you.
Timing tools for the selected keyframes — across every property and effect you selected, curves preserved like Alt-drag.
Tip: Press U on the layer to reveal all animated properties, then drag a box over the keys.
Search After Effects' own animation presets (including your User Presets) and every installed effect and plugin (Reverb, Twixtor, Sapphire…), star favorites, and apply one to every selected clip.
An effect or plugin on every selected clip, then one animation copied to all of them.
Several effects on the source clip? Select the ones you want in Effect Controls, or none to copy them all.
Removes every effect from all the selected layers in one click. Ctrl+Z brings them back.
Layer utilities.
Freezes the selected layers at the playhead: the picture stops and the layer carries on as a still. Works on video and precomp layers.
Tip: Ctrl+Z undoes it in one step.
Turns on frame blending on the selected layers, or on every layer of the comp if nothing is selected. It smooths slow motion, speed-ups, time remaps and footage with another frame rate than the comp. It goes inside precomps too and switches on the Frame Blending switch of every comp it touched.
Tip: on a clip at its own speed and frame rate it changes nothing, so the message tells you on how many layers it really changes the picture. Pixel Motion renders slower than Frame Mix. Ctrl+Z undoes it in one step.
Mirrors the edges of the selected layers with a Motion Tile, so a shake or a zoom never shows black at the borders. It adds an effect called Edge fill; shake or zoom the layer afterwards.
Your own watermark, one click on any comp. Make it in After Effects like any layer, with any effect (a text layer with a glow, a logo, a shape), select it and press Save the selected layer. From then on the key adds it to the comp you have open, as real layers you can still edit.
Tip: Select a finished clip or precomp first and the watermark takes its length. Pressing again replaces the one it added before. The saved watermark lives in the project: in a new project, save it once more, or use a file.
Finds the head of the person you click and either keeps it in the middle of the frame or gives you a null that follows it. The analysis runs on your computer: nothing is uploaded.
Tip: Select the clip, move the playhead to a frame where the person is visible and press the key. A precomp is fine, the key goes inside by itself.
Good to know: Windows only for now, the Mac version is coming. The first time it downloads its engine, about 66 MB, once. It works best when the face is visible: if the head turns away it is followed by its movement for a few seconds and can drift, and after a cut it takes the largest face. Lock needs a clip with no parent and no Position or Scale keyframes of its own, and it tells you if not.
Blurs the score, the channel logo and the league logo of a football clip, in one click. It finds them by itself: graphics that stay in place while the game moves. The blur follows their exact shape.
Good to know: it finds graphics that are on screen for most of the clip. A banner that only flashes by (a goal graphic) is not found. The masks can be moved by hand like any mask.
Cuts a person or an object out of a clip or a picture. Everything runs on your computer: nothing is uploaded.
Good to know: Windows only for now. The first time it downloads its engine once, about 190 MB. It works best on people and clear subjects.